If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Author Julie Berry breaks down why we're so fascinated by stories of murdered young women and fantastical beasts, and what happens when ...

Jeff Mudgett learned the shocking truth at a family dinner: His great-great-grandfather was H.H. Holmes, the infamous con man and serial killer who operated a so-called “Murder Castle” during the 1893 ...

A former police volunteer claims to have discovered the identity of the figure behind some of the most shocking crimes in British history, unmasking the 19th-century murderer who terrorised the nation ...

Between 1887 and 1889, the unidentified Thames Torso Killer dismembered at least four victims in London, creating one of Victorian England's most chilling unsolved murder mysteries.

On the morning of May 11, 1887, lighterman Edward Hughes made a gruesome discovery when he fished a sack containing a human ...

Sedgley Library is the venue for a deep dive into Jack the Ripper territory on Saturday, January 24 at 1pm when Damian Carter ...

In the autumn of 1888, a monster stalked the streets of London’s East End. The slashed and mutilated bodies of the killer’s victims struck terror into the city ...

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never ...

After 137 years, one of history’s most famous murder mysteries is back in the spotlight. The killings that shook Whitechapel in 1888 created the legend of Jack the Ripper, a figure who has inspired ...

More than 130 years since Jack the Ripper haunted the murky, foggy lanes of Victorian London, a top history buff reckons he ...

In the century since his infamous, short-lived reign of terror, Jack the Ripper has inspired as much speculation as any criminal in history. The man who butchered five London prostitutes was never ...