The History of Jack the Ripper: What We Get Wrong with Richard Jones

The Growth Time Machine with Daniel Curtis · Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 30m

Who was Jack the Ripper — and how much of what we think we know about the Whitechapel murders is actually supported by the evidence?In this in-depth conversation, I’m joined by historian, author and long-time Jack the Ripper researcher Richard Jones to examine the history behind one of the world’s most famous unsolved murder cases.Rather than beginning with a favourite suspect and working backwards, we go back to the evidence, contemporary newspaper reports, inquests, police accounts and the streets of Victorian Whitechapel itself.Richard has spent decades researching the Jack the Ripper case…