Culprit? Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline has been named as Jack the Ripper by a Spanish investigator Suspects have ranged from a member of Royal Family to a local butcher – but it is now claimed that Jack the Ripper was the very detective who led the hunt for the killer. Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard was the man who murdered and mutilated at least five women in Victorian East London – at least according to Spanish writer Jose Luis Abad, 84. He makes the claim in his book Jack the Ripper: The Most Intelligent Murderer in History, published in Spain this week.
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Spanish handwriting expert claims to solve 120-year-old murder mystery
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