One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper
The Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 are the most compelling unsolved crimes of all time. Sarah Bax Horton investigates the killings in honour of her Whitechapel police ancestor Sergeant Harry Garrett, who worked on the case. Using criminal profiling, she discovers a little-known suspect, an East Ender whose distinctive physical attributes match the contemporary eye-witness descriptions.
In 1888, Hyam Hyams was a 36-year-old cigar maker living on Wentworth Street, with a history of physically abusing his wife. By August of that year, with an unhealed broken arm, his epilepsy and alcoholism worsening, his violence against women escalated onto the streets. A seemingly harmless character, he was trusted by the local sex workers who became his victims.
In a gripping analysis, the author of One-Armed Jack proves his guilt, finally identifying the man who was Jack the Ripper. Join Sarah Bax Horton to find out more about the evidence behind her hypothesis.
Speaker Bio:
Sarah Bax Horton is an award-winning true crime writer based in London. Fascinated by genealogy, her discovery of a Whitechapel ‘H Division’ police ancestor inspired her re-examination of the Jack the Ripper case in One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper (Michael O’Mara Books, 2023). Her second book Arm of Eve: Investigating the Thames Torso Murders (The History Press, 2024) won the ‘Ripperology Books And More’ Book of the Year award in 2024. Sarah is acclaimed for combining meticulous historical research with modern investigative methods.
Photo credit: Photographer: Julian Calder
Curated & Hosted by:
Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience
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