On the predawn hours of Friday, August 31st, 1888, a destitute woman of the streets was murdered in a London thoroughfare. Her name was Mary Ann Nichols. With her death commenced a period of terror so appalling that it continues to haunt th…

London, in the autumn of 1888, lived under a pall of terror. The crowded streets of Whitechapel became the hunting ground of a killer, a figure who repeatedly dissolved into the darkness after unspeakable acts. The brutality of the crimes w…