As we approach Halloween and focus on the dark side of life I wanted to look at some real-life spooky tales and none more sinister than the gruesome tale of Jack the Ripper. Hard to imagine it’s been 130 years this year since this Victorian bogeyman first started stalking the streets of Whitechapel in London. The Ripper killed five women (maybe more) in the autumn of 1888, his calling card in the shape of a mutilated body. Despite hundreds of police investigations and armchair detective theories he was never caught and his identity remains as elusive today as it did …
