A while ago I was talking about reading Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell – a savage graphic novel about Jack the Ripper. Featured as part of the book is the transcript of a letter purporting to be from the killer himself. In fact the book contains many dozens of letters written by the general public concerning the murders, each one claiming to be the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders. In the news today, one such letter has been made public for the first time: “The so-called Openshaw letter is littered with spelling mistakes and bad grammar in a “Cockney” style, and is signed by ‘Jack the Ripper’.”. The article is a fascinating read, and ever more so when you read Moore’s fictional account alongside it…
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