According to the book description of In Pursuit of Jack the Ripper:
An Introduction to the Whitechapel Murders, it is “the ultimate cold case, from 1888 to 1891, London’s
East End was rocked by a series of brutal murders. The victims were prostitutes whose corpses were left gruesomely mutilated.
These crimes came to be known as the Whitechapel murders and were attributed to an unidentified fiend who named himself “Jack
the Ripper”. The search for his true identity consumed an enormous amount of police resources and generated more than
1,600 pages of reports—but the case was never solved. Now, after 120 years of speculation and debate, this infamous
serial homicide case is reexamined by a leading cold case investigator. Using modern investigation techniques and technology,
author Robert A. Snow takes a fresh look at the mystery of the Whitechapel murders—and the serial killer who got away
with his vicious crimes. The Ripper left nothing usable at the scene of his crimes and he came and went like a ghost. It is
possible, even likely, that he was interviewed by the police at some time during the course of their investigations, but was
able to allay their suspicions. Jack may have been insane, but he wasn’t stupid.”
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One reader of In Pursuit of Jack the Ripper: An Introduction to the
Whitechapel Murders said, “This is not a book of theory or unsupported speculation. The author does not
impose his pet ideas on the facts. It is written from a modern police perspective for serious students of the Ripper case
(and there are many) who want a clear statement of the real facts and basic undeniable inferences on which to ground their
own investigations and theories.
Chief Snow, who has broad experience in police investigations, has done a tremendous
amount of "legwork" in original sources; transcribing autopsies, coroner proceedings, and contemporaneous news reports;
reconstructing the locations by painstaking review of archived London records and much more. The result is a remarkably brief
but authoritative review of what can be reliably established about the victims, the witnesses, the suspects, and the methods
of the perpetrator who committed crimes so heinous that they still haunt us today. It is presented in format which can easily
used as a reference, and with some of the common misconceptions and popular misunderstandings cleared away to make room for
further inquiry into the enduring mystery of this early and most famous example of the "serial killer."
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