Rippercast- Your Podcast On The Jack The Ripper Murders

Listen in to the guest speaker at the Whitechapel Society 1888's December 2015 meeting: Neil Storey with 'East End Tales of Ghosts, Grim times and Dark Deeds'. <p>www.whitechapelsociety.com</p> <p>Podcast artwork photograph courtesy of Andrew Firth<p/>

Listen in to the final speaker to appear at the Casebook:Classic Crime Symposium that took place at the Chamberlin Hotel in London on Saturday, December 5th, 2015. This event was organized by Frogg Moody and Time Zone Publishing's Casebook: Classic Crime, in conjunction with the Whitechapel Society. We are pleased to present Adam Wood-Donald Swanson and the Seaside Home. The slide show from Adam's talk <a href="http://www.rippercast.com/mp3/DSS-2.pdf">can be downloaded here</a>.

Neil Bell's ' Bluebottles & Tecs: Life as a policeman in H Division' was the third talk at the Casebook: Classic Crime Symposium that took place at the Chamberlin Hotel in London on Saturday, December 5th 2015. This event was organized by Frogg Moody and Time Zone Publishing's Casebook: Classic Crime in conjunction with the Whitechapel Society. All four talks will be presented in their entirety and uncut, and the accompanying slide presentations will be made available for download on the individual presentation's podcast page at Casebook.org. Download the slide presentation that accompanied this talk <a href="http://www.rippercast.com/mp3/Bluebottles%20%26%20Tecs.pdf">here</a>

Listen in to Trevor Bond's 'A Terrible Tale of 1888'- the second talk at the Casebook: Classic Crime Symposium that took place at the Chamberlin Hotel in London on Saturday, December 5th 2015. This event was organized by Frogg Moody and Time Zone Publishing's Casebook: Classic Crime in conjunction with the Whitechapel Society with Philip Hutchinson as the emcee. The slideshow that accompanied Trevor's talk can be downloaded here.

We are very pleased to be able to bring to you the audio recordings of the Casebook: Classic Crime Symposium that took place at the Chamberlin Hotel in London on Saturday, December 5th 2015. This event was organized by Frogg Moody and Time Zone Publishing's Casebook: Classic Crime in conjunction with the Whitechapel Society with Philip Hutchinson as the emcee. The first speaker at the event was Jon Lee Rees, whose talk 'In a Nutshell' A Close Look at the Life's Work of Frances Glessner Lee' examines the crime scene dioramas of this groundbreaking criminal investigator. Jon's slide presentation can be downloaded here.

Episode 68 is a one-on-one conversation with author Richard Patterson about the Jack the Ripper suspect candidacy of the late 19th century poet Francis Thompson. Thompson lived in the rough in the East End of London during the Autumn of Terror on a quest to find the prostitute who had left him, and carried with him a surgeon's knife. Hosted by Jonathan Menges

Episode 67 of Rippercast welcomes Dr. Mark Curbishley taking part in a discussion of the possibility that the murderer of any one of the "Canonical" five victims may have had some type of surgical skill or training. In the later part of the show we address the worthiness of, and moral and ethical issues surrounding the human organ experiments conducted by author Trevor Marriott while researching his 2008 book 'The Evil Within'. With Jon Lee Rees, Jonathan Menges, Iain Wilson, Gareth Williams, Ally Ryder and Mark Ripper. Hosted by Trevor Bond.

On this 'Oh, Dear Boss' mini-podcast, listen in as Iain Wilson, Trevor Bond and Jon Rees join host Jonathan Menges in a discussion of the Kray's movie 'Legend'; upcoming book releases, Jon Rees' play 'The Murders and Mystery of Jack the Ripper' and the 'Jack the Ripper' addition to the video game 'Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'.

Rippercast is pleased to bring you author Sarah Wise's talk from the Whitechapel Society 1888 Conference in Salisbury from November of 2014- Gaslight Stories - Tales from the Victorian Lunatic Asylum. www.sarahwise.co.uk www.whitechapelsociety.com

Listen in as Rippercast's intrepid correspondents Jon Rees and Trevor Bond venture into the East End of London to provide us with on location reportage concerning the redevelopment of several Jack the Ripper related murder sites.

Episode 64 welcomes Wynne Weston-Davies to the podcast to discuss in detail his new book 'The Real Mary Kelly' in which he presents his theory that Mary Jane Kelly was in fact his Great-Aunt Elizabeth Weston-Davies and her murderer could have been her estranged husband Francis Spurzheim Craig. Joining Wynne in this discussion are authors Paul Begg and Robert McLaughlin. Hosted by Jonathan Menges http://www.blinkpublishing.co.uk/index.php/the-real-mary-kelly/

Oh, Dear Boss... Topics discussed on the maiden voyage of 'Oh, Dear Boss...', Ripper cast's mini-podcast news and views series: The Jack the Ripper Museum in Cable Street; Launch of the independent publisher Mango Books; Ripperologist Magazine/Rippercast book contest. Recorded 31 July, 2015 With Ally Ryder and Jonathan Menges

Episode 63 welcomes Friends of Joseph Carey Merrick Chairperson and founder Jeanette Sitton to the show, along with historical researchers Philip Hutchinson and Neil Bell, to discuss the life and times of an individual that was perhaps the most famous resident of the East End of London during the time frame of the Whitechapel Murders: Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man. Jeanette Sitton is also the co-author with Mae Stroshane of the essential Merrick biography 'Measured By The Soul'. Philip Hutchinson is the playwright and co-star of the Lucky Dog Theatre Production's play 'Mr. Merrick, The Elephant Man'. Neil R. A. Bell is the author of 'Capturing Jack the Ripper: In the Boots of a Bobby in Victorian London' as well as being responsible, along with Adam Wood, for the reissue of 'Howard Vincent's Police Code 1889'. This interview was conducted by Jonathan Menges.

Join Ally Ryder, Robert McLaughlin, Mark Ripper and Neil Bell as they discuss Neil's new book: Capturing Jack the Ripper: In the Boots of a Bobby in Victorian London.

This special episode of Rippercast brings to you researcher Robert Anderson's talk given at the Whitechapel Society 1888's 2014 conference in Salisbury. His chosen topic was tertiary syphilis and its widespread presence amongst the prostitutes and their clients in the East End of London in the late Victorian Period. He discussed its symptoms, treatments, and how it may have affected victims and suspects in the Autumn of Terror. Robert's slide presentation, referred to in the podcast, can be downloaded here.

Ally Ryder, Jonathan Menges, Jon Rees, Trevor Bond, Neil Bell and Mark Ripper chat about the Russell Edwards DNA controversy and the conference in Salisbury.

Rippercast welcomes researcher and author Tom Wescott to the show for an in depth discussion of his book 'The Bank Holiday Murders-The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders'. He details his over-decade long history in researching the Whitechapel Murders; the books, authors and researchers who have most influenced him in his study of the case; and addresses what he believes is the current state of Ripperology and what we can look forward to from him as he continues to write about the personages who populated East London in 1888.

This Primer episode of the Rippercast focuses on the lives of the Victims. Neal and Jennifer Shelden provide us with brief biographies on the lives of the Canonical victims of Jack the Ripper.

This is a special episode of the Rippercast that is meant to serve as a primer for those new to the case in order to familiarize them with the practices and people who made up the police force of London during the "Autumn of Terror"

This podcast is a roundtable discussion of the various lectures and events that took place at the 2012 Jack the Ripper conference in York. Hosted by Ally Ryder with special guests including Neil Bell, Melanie Clegg, Rob House, Neil Storey, Trevor Bond, and Mark Ripper.