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Steve Blomer — Who Was Jack the Ripper? Unravelling the World’s Most Famous Mystery
Steve Blomer returns to The Growth Time Machine for a wide-ranging and evidence-led conversation about the enduring mystery of Jack the Ripper.Drawing on years of research into the Whitechapel murders, Steve tackles some of the biggest questions surrounding the case: were the famous Ripper letters genuine, or were many of them hoaxes? Could the Goulston Street graffito really have been written by the killer? Was the Lusk kidney authentic? And how much confidence should we place in Victorian estimates of time of death?The conversation also explores the canonical five murders, the type of knife…
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