Take a Jack the Ripper Tour around London's East End. Follow the bloody trail of prostitution and murder from Tower Hill Tube to Commercial Street's Ten Bells Pub, where it is said the Ripper met some of his victims.
Still exerting a gruesome pull on our imaginations, the events of August to November 1888 in and around Whitechapel - the disturbingly violent deaths of at least five women - have gone down in history as one of the great serial killer mysteries.
Since no-one was ever caught for the murders, there are well over a century's worth of conspiracy theories, still flaring up from time-to-time with a new suggestion as to the possible perpetrator, from members of the royal family to immigrants who then emigrated again (one explanation why the murders ended so abruptly).
There are various tours that take visitors around most of the murder sites, usually starting at Tower Hill Tube station, beside the best-preserved original Roman wall, before winding round East End streets. They fill in the background to the murders, how friction between the City police and Metropolitan police may have hampered the investigation, the various letters that purported to be from the Ripper, and the mystery of the graffiti on a wall in Goulston Street.
You can discuss your own theories over a pint in the Ten Bells at the end of the tour.
Related Information
Website: Jack the Ripper Tour Website