We will never know for sure but the Jack the Ripper story is interesting to me because my ancestors lived in that area during the time of his reign of terror.
...and you haven't come forward to name them as suspects yet???
“...my ancestors lived in that area during the time of his reign of terror”
any stories passed down in your family?
Same here. The Kosminski suspect was even in the workhouse during the same year as one of my ancestors from the area. Her husband, my great X? grandfather ran a lodging house in the East end.