Current issue

Our current issue is Ripperologist 124, February 2012.

Quote for the Month

“London had Jack the Ripper. Chicago had Al Capone. Medellin had its own infamous son: Pablo Escobar. At the time of his death in 1993 at age 44, Escobar was the world’s most notorious criminal. He blew up a civilian airliner, bombed the government’s security ministry, assassinated at least one presidential candidate and waged a war on the state that killed thousands, including dozens of judges and hundreds of policemen. But in the afterlife, Escobar has suddenly become something new: a tourist attraction.”

Dan Molinski, In Medellin, Notorious Figure Becomes Tourist Attraction. The Wall Street Journal, 13 December 2011.

Contents

• EDITORIAL: ONE FOR SORROW, TWO FOR JOY by Eduardo Zinna
• A HISTORY OF THE MACNAGHTEN MEMORANDUM
  INCLUDING THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE ABERCONWAY VERSION by Adam Wood
• THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES CARNAC by John Bennett
• JACOB THE RIPPER? by Neil and Tracy I’anson
• RIDDLE OF THE TOWER RAVENS ALMOST RESOLVED by Dr Geoffrey Parnell
• AMAZING DOGS by Jan Bondeson
• PRESS TRAWL by Chris Scott
• SPITALFIELDS LIFE:
  THE RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY MURDERS by The Gentle Author
• VICTORIAN FICTION: NURSE’S STORIES by Charles Dickens
• THE TRUTH by Glen L Bledsoe
• I BEG TO REPORT: All the news that’s fit to print
• REVIEWS: The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper and more!