A dusty artifact may be the key to solving one of true crime’s oldest mysteries.

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The unknown killer brutally murdered at least five women in the 1800s — but today retracing his steps is seen as harmless by countless visitors. - Mark Kerrison/In Pictures/Getty Images By 8 p.m., ...

Just before 9 p.m. on a recent Thursday in London, five guided tour groups, about 150 people in all, converged on a nondescript courtyard on the eastern edge of the central financial district. Some ...

In Whitechapel Season 1, ambitious Detective Inspector Chandler tackles a seemingly simple murder case in the gritty streets of London’s Whitechapel. But the tide turns when eerie similarities emerge ...

Forming a part of the crime's dark legacy, one letter thought to be from Jack the Ripper cemented the Victorian murderer's grip on the 1880s' consciousness.

London (CNN) — By 8 p.m., three London tour groups are jostling for room in Mitre Square, where murder victim Catherine Eddowes was found with her face mutilated and kidney removed. “I once saw two ...