The Murder Of Augusta Dawes - Had Jack The Ripper Returned? 

Absolutely, every time.

Kitty genovese NYC??

Agreed, policing wasn't fantastic then but the handwriting !?

Hi. Yes, they are from the 1890s. The sources are newspapers such as The Illustrated Police News and The Penny Illustrated Paper.

@@JackTheRipperTours , thank you. So great that you used them, they make this case so much more alive, 120 years later. I think that drawings often convey more than photographs. If they are well-made, they are more precise, more concentrated on what is important. Esp.the portraits of Saunderson. They were made with great craftmanship and sensitivity. Together with your text, they gave me a very good impression of him.

It's an interesting idea, but there's not really many similar killings that we could say with confidence were likely to have been committed by the same person.

Great question. I randomly happen to know the origin of the word “schmaltz”, and the answer is-kinda, but it doesn’t have any association with Herbert Schmalz specifically. It is actually the Yiddish (Jewish) word for rendered chicken fat. But it IS derived from the German word “schmalz” which refers to all meat drippings/fat/lard. But then it eventually became a slang word for something that is overly sentimental or “dripping” with sentiment.

What was despicable about the Victorian era?

You see like the sensitive type.

Life was damned difficult then and often very short. Queen Victoria no less had one child die from leukemia. I wouldn't wish it upon her but the very Empress herself of the biggest Empire that ever existed could only watch while her child died of a disease that nowadays in 95% of cases is manageable if not a bed of roses. If you read the books about the life and times of the Ripper, life was very hard for a large proportion of the population and not that fantastic for even the very rich.