Back in 2002, I was browsing a new releases table at my local bookstore when a particular book caught my eye. It seemed like yet another crime novel, one among hundreds. And so, I moved on, until I saw the subtitle of the book: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed. In it, the author released a bombshell statement: she had purportedly solved the mystery of Jack the Ripper's identity, which had evaded researchers, historians, and police for over one hundred years.

Jack the Ripper, she said, was the English painter Walter Sickert.

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Portrait of a Killer: 6 Chilling Jack the Ripper Theories

Patricia Cornwell Says She Has "Cracked" the Jack the Ripper Mystery

Does this Painting by Walter Sickert Reveal the Identity of Jack the Ripper?

W alter Sickert was Jack the Ripper? Ridiculous! He was Actually Dracula

Walter Sickert, Minnie Cunningham, 1892, oil on canvas, 76.5 x 63.8 cm, Tate London

Walter Sickert, L'Affaire de Camden Town, 1909, Private collection

Walter Sickert, The Camden Town Murder or What Shall We Do about the Rent? c.1908, Yale Center for British Art

Walter Sickert, detail from Le Lit de Cuivre, c. 1906, Tate London

Walter Sickert, Jack the Ripper's Bedroom, c. 1907, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.7 cm. Manchester City Gallery.

Episode #7: Was Walter Sickert Actually Jack the Ripper? PART TWO