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.

Elizabeth Stride And Jack The Ripper: The Life and Death of the Reputed Third Victim
By Dave Yost

As soon as the newspapers hit the streets on October 1, 1888, Elizabeth Stride became world renowned as the third victim of Jack the Ripper. Reportedly, Stride was killed only an hour before fellow victim Catherine Eddowes, becoming a key player in the legendary “double event” of Jack the Ripper’s brief but notorious killing career. This book tells the complete life story of Elisabeth Gustafsdotter, beginning with her birth in Sweden during the winter of 1843. The author describes Stride’s reported “habitual drunkenness,” her brief career as a prostitute, and the public aftermath of her untimely death. Period photos and sketches are included throughout the work, along with several appendices and an index.

Dave Yost works in the engineering and design fields. He is a coauthor of The News from Whitechapel (2002) and lives in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

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