Jack the Ripper and the Thames Torso Murders: One Killer? | Dr Drew Gray

The Growth Time Machine with Daniel Curtis · Oct 26, 2026 · 1h 12m

For more than a century, the man who discovered Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols in Buck’s Row was little more than a footnote in the story of the Whitechapel murders. Today, Charles Allen Lechmere – who gave his name as Charles Cross at the Nichols inquest – has become one of the most debated suspects in the case.Edward Stow has spent years investigating Lechmere and the surviving evidence surrounding him. What makes his research particularly interesting is that he says he initially approached the theory intending to disprove it. Instead, the deeper he went into the records, timings, geography and…