I thought the original Star Trek solved the case http://www.startrek.com/article/jack-the-ripper-and-treks-mr-hengist-john-fiedler
Or was it Kolchak The Night Stalker?- The Ripper
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AkemidXuV_MDEq_VqdNI31ObvZx4?fr=yfp-t-322-s&toggle=1&fp=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=kolchak%20the%20night%20stalker%20jack%20the%20ripper
You could be right. Kolcheck was a news guy not a journalist.