Francis Spurzheim Craig
Francis Spurzheim Craig
( 1837- 8 March 1903) was a Victorian newspaper reporter and editor who was present during the inquests into the victims of Jack the Ripper.
A new theory by Dr. Wynne Weston- Davies argues that Craig" was" Jack the Ripper and the British government has agreed to the exhumation of Mary Jane Kelly, the Ripper's last victim, and the taking of a DNA sample from her remains.
James Kelly (murderer)
James Kelly (20 April 1860, Preston, Lancashire – 17 September 1929, Berkshire) was a young upholsterer who, a few months before the prostitute murders in Whitechapel, fled the Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital, where he had been imprisoned for murdering his wife.
Kelly is one of many suspected of being Jack the Ripper.
He was first identified as a suspect in Terence Sharkey's "Jack the Ripper: 100 Years of Investigation" (1987), with his case described in more detail in the book "Prisoner 1167:
The madman who was Jack the Ripper" (1997), written by Jim Tully.
In 2010, Discovery Channel broadcast a documentary called "Jack the Ripper in America", in which retired NYPD cold-case detective Ed Norris investigates the case.
Norris claims that James Kelly is not only Jack the Ripper's true identity, but that he is also responsible for a number of 'Ripper-like' murders in the United States.
Monty Berman
Nestor Montague "Monty" Berman (16 August 1913 in Whitechapel, London, England - 14 June 2006 in London, England) was a British cinematographer and film and television producer.
Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.
In both the criminal case files and contemporary journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron.
Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations.
The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge.
Rumours that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and letters were received by media outlets and Scotland Yard from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer.
The name" Jack the Ripper" originated in a letter written by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media.
The letter is widely believed to have been a hoax and may have been written by journalists in an attempt to heighten interest in the story and increase their newspapers' circulation.
The" From Hell" letter received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee came with half of a preserved human kidney, purportedly taken from one of the victims.
The public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer known as" Jack the Ripper", mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal nature of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events.
Extensive newspaper coverage bestowed widespread and enduring international notoriety on the Ripper, and the legend solidified.
A police investigation into a series of eleven brutal killings in Whitechapel up to 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888.
Five victims — Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly—are known as the" canonical five" and their murders between 31 August and 9 November 1888 are often considered the most likely to be linked.
The murders were never solved, and the legends surrounding them became a combination of genuine historical research, folklore, and pseudohistory.
The term" ripperology" was coined to describe the study and analysis of the Ripper cases.
There are now over one hundred hypotheses about the Ripper's identity, and the murders have inspired many works of fiction.
William Gull
Sir William Withey Gull, 1st Baronet( 31 December 1816 – 29 January 1890), was a 19th- century English physician.
Of modest family origins, he rose through the ranks of the medical profession to establish a lucrative private practice and serve in a number of prominent roles, including Governor of Guy's Hospital, Fullerian Professor of Physiology and President of the Clinical Society.
In 1871, having successfully treated the Prince of Wales during a life- threatening attack of typhoid fever, he was created a Baronet and appointed to be one of the Physicians- in- Ordinary to Queen Victoria.
Gull made a number of significant contributions to medical science, including advancing the understanding of myxoedema, Bright's disease, paraplegia and anorexia nervosa( for which he first established the name).
A widely discredited masonic/ royal conspiracy theory created in the 1970s alleged that Gull knew the identity of Jack the Ripper, or even that he himself was the murderer.
Although dismissed by scholars, its dramatic nature let the theory evolve and remain popular among producers of fictional works, despite Gull being 71 years old and of ill health when the murders were committed.
Examples for his portrayal as Jack the Ripper include the 1988 TV film" Jack the Ripper" starring Michael Caine as well as the 1996 graphic novel" From Hell" and its subsequent film adaptation.
Servant Girl Annihilator
A serial killer, who became known as the Servant Girl Annihilator, preyed upon the city of Austin, Texas, during the years 1884 and 1885.
The sobriquet originated with the writer O. Henry.
The series of eight axe murders were referred to by contemporary sources as the Servant Girl Murders.
The December 26, 1885, issue of" The New York Times" reported that the" murders were committed by some cunning madman, who is insane on the subject of killing women".
The murders represent an early example of a serial killer operating in the United States, three years before the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel.
According to author Philip Sugden in" The Complete History of Jack the Ripper", the conjecture that the Texas killer and Jack the Ripper were one and the same man originated in October 1888, when an editor with the" Atlanta Constitution" proposed this conjecture, following the murders of Stride and Eddowes by Jack the Ripper.
Jack the Ripper (1976 film)
Jack the Ripper  is a 1976 German thriller film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Klaus Kinski.
In this Swiss-German film Klaus Kinski portrays Jack the Ripper.
Leonard Matters
Leonard Warburton Matters( 26 June 1881 – 31 October 1951) was an Australian journalist who became a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was born a British subject in Adelaide, Australia, and fought in the Second Boer War in South Africa.
He worked as a journalist in Argentina, and was managing editor of the" Buenos Aires Herald".
In 1926, Matters proposed in a magazine article that the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper was an eminent doctor, whose son had died from syphilis caught from a prostitute.
According to Matters, the doctor, given the pseudonym" Dr Stanley", committed the murders in revenge and then fled to Argentina.
Matters claimed he had discovered an account of Stanley's deathbed confession in a South American newspaper.
He expanded his ideas into a book," The Mystery of Jack the Ripper", in 1929.
The book was marketed as a serious study, but it contains obvious factual errors and the documents it supposedly uses as references have never been found.
True crime writer Edmund Pearson, who was Matters' contemporary, said scathingly," The deathbed confession bears about the same relation to the facts of criminology as the exploits of Peter Rabbit and Jerry Muskrat do to zoology."
Ripper expert and former policeman Donald Rumbelow thought the theory was" almost certainly invented", and Stephen Knight, who wrote, thought it was" based on unsupported and palpably false statements".
Nevertheless," The Mystery of Jack the Ripper" was the first full- length book on the Ripper, and it inspired further fictional works such as the theatre play" Murder Most Foul" and the film" Jack the Ripper".
In the 1929 general election, Matters was elected to the United Kingdom House of Commons as the Member of Parliament( MP) for Kennington in London.
He held the seat for two years, until his defeat at the 1931 general election, and was unsuccessful when he stood again in 1935.
Jack the Ripper (1959 film)
Jack the Ripper is a 1959 film produced and directed by Monty Berman and Robert S. Baker.
It is loosely based on Leonard Matters' theory that Jack the Ripper was an avenging doctor.
The black-and-white film stars Lee Patterson and Eddie Byrne and co-stars Betty McDowall, John Le Mesurier, and Ewen Solon.
It was released in England in 1959, and shown in the U.S. in 1960.
The plot is a "whodunit" with false leads and a denouement in which the least likely character, in this case "Sir David Rogers" played by Ewen Solon, is revealed as the culprit.
As in Matters' book, "The Mystery of Jack the Ripper", Solon's character murders prostitutes to avenge the death of his son.
While Matters had the son dying from venereal disease, the film has him committing suicide on learning his lover
is a prostitute.
Philip Sugden (historian)
Philip Sugden( January 27, 1947 – found dead April 26, 2014) was an English historian, best known for his comprehensive study of Jack the Ripper case, including the books" The Complete History of Jack the Ripper", first published in 1994, and" The Life and Times of Jack the Ripper"( 1996).
He was the first academic historian to work on the case.

Question: Where was the place of death of the director of film Jack The Ripper (1959 Film)?
Answer: London