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A Liverpool butcher? A relative of the royal family? The identity of Victorian London’s most famous killer has baffled Scotland Yard for decades

A Liverpool butcher? A relative of the royal family? The identity of Victorian London’s most famous killer has baffled Scotland Yard for decades, thanks to a series of suspected cover-ups, hoaxes and red herrings. Now, Secret History reveals the prime suspect: quack American doctor, Francis Tumblety. Could this be the man who mutilated and murdered a series of ‘fallen women’ in the dark back streets of London’s East End in 1888? A blood-soaked shirt was found in the American’s room. The murders stopped when he left England. He had a hatred of women – and kept a collection of bottled wombs. When he arrived back in the States, the papers did not hesitate to link him with the killings. Secret History investigates how Scotland Yard let him slip through their fingers.

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