Casebook Blotter

Hi everyone -

Its been a while since the last Casebook update - sorry about that!  Its been a busy year, but I’m slowly catching up in getting new content up on the site.  And in that vein, two new additions were made today:

An Interview with Deborah McDonald

We do a brief question-and-answer session with Deborah McDonald, author of The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper: The Evidence Linking James Kenneth Stephen to the Whitechapel Murders (2007).  Anyone with an interest in J.K. Stephen will definitely want to check this one out.

Elisabeth Gustafsdotters’ last Stride

Swedish Ripperologist Stefan Rantzow explores Elizabeth Stride’s Swedish background in Torslanda and elsewhere, and her various family connections in this insightful article. Includes photographs of the buildings where Elizabeth was born and baptized.