The Thames Torso Murders — London's Other Serial Killer

The Thames Torso Murders — London's Other Serial Killer

In the small hours of a September morning in 1889, a constable's lantern found a woman's torso hidden under a railway arch in Whitechapel — headless, legless, and eerily similar to something London had already seen three times before.

This is the story of the Thames Torso Murders: four dismembered women, scattered across the river and the streets of London between 1873 and 1889, by a killer methodical enough that Scotland Yard's own detectives ruled out Jack the Ripper. Only one victim was ever identified. No one was ever charged. And more than a century later, historians think they may finally know who did it.

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