But he was later ruled out as the Ripper after it emerged that he was in a French prison when the murders took place. The archive also contains of the “Saucy Jack” postcard that was ...

The London Monster was motivated by piquerism, derived from the French for to prick, and relates to a sexual interest in penetrating the skin. A century later Jack the Ripper had the same fetish ...

Row over 'tasteless' auction of Nazi items Jack the Ripper warning card fetches £22k ... selling this guillotine," a spokesperson for the French auction regulators told the Parisien newspaper.