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In the fall of 1888,
all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror. An elusive
madman calling himself Jack the Ripper was brutally butchering women in
the slums of London’s East End. Police seemed powerless to stop the
killer, who delighted in taunting them and whose crimes were clearly
escalating in violence from victim to victim. And then the Ripper’s
violent spree seemingly ended as abruptly as it had begun. He had
struck out of nowhere and then vanished from the scene. Decades passed,
then fifty years, then a hundred, and the Ripper’s bloody sexual crimes
became anemic and impotent fodder for puzzles, mystery weekends, crime
conventions, and so-called “Ripper Walks” that end with pints of ale in
the pubs of Whitechapel. But to number-one New York Times
bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell, the Ripper murders are not cute
little mysteries to be transformed into parlor games or movies but
rather a series of terrible crimes that no one should get away with,
even after death. Now Cornwell applies her trademark skills for
meticulous research and scientific expertise to dig deeper into the
Ripper case than any detective before her—and reveal the true identity
of this fabled Victorian killer.

In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed,
Cornwell combines the rigorous discipline of twenty-first century
police investigation with forensic techniques undreamed of during the
late Victorian era to solve one of the most infamous and difficult
serial murder cases in history. Drawing on unparalleled access to
original Ripper evidence, documents, and records, as well as archival,
academic, and law-enforcement resources, FBI profilers, and top forensic
scientists, Cornwell reveals that Jack the Ripper was none other than a
respected painter of his day, an artist now collected by some of the
world’s finest museums: Walter Richard Sickert.

It has been said
of Cornwell that no one depicts the human capability for evil better
than she. Adding layer after layer of circumstantial evidence to the
physical evidence discovered by modern forensic science and expert
minds, Cornwell shows that Sickert, who died peacefully in his bed in
1942, at the age of 81, was not only one of Great Britain’s greatest
painters but also a serial killer, a damaged diabolical man driven by
megalomania and hate. She exposes Sickert as the author of the infamous
Ripper letters that were written to the Metropolitan Police and the
press. Her detailed analysis of his paintings shows that his art
continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her
examination of this man’s birth defects, the consequent genital surgical
interventions, and their effects on his upbringing present a casebook
example of how a psychopathic killer is created.

New information and startling revelations detailed in Portrait of a Killer include:

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How a year-long battery of more than 100 DNA tests—on samples drawn by
Cornwell’s forensics team in September 2001 from original Ripper letters
and Sickert documents—yielded the first shadows of the 75- to 114
year-old genetic evid...

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Like historical stuff, should be interesting read.

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