The Rediscovery of Francis Tumblety: Making the case for an elusive - and local - suspect in the world's most famous unsolved murders

In the autumn of 1888, under cover of darkness in the narrow streets of East London’s poorer neighborhoods, someone slaughtered and disemboweled a series of impoverished, vulnerable women, one after another, in a killing spree that terrorized the globe and left an indelible stamp upon humankind’s nightmare imagination. He was never caught and never faced justice. Contrary to what recent articles have claimed, DNA evidence has never unmasked the killer. His moniker still evokes terror over a century later.

He’s Jack the Ripper, and he may have been from Rochester.