Four American women dead at the hands of a prime suspect in the Jack the Ripper case.
The most notorious serial murderer in British crime history may have actually set foot on American soil during the late nineteenth century. In 1891, four women were brutally mutilated and killed in New York and New Jersey. Because they were murdered in the same general area and time frame, the circumstances point to the possibility that all the women were victims of the same killer. Severin Klosowski , a prime suspect, as living in the area at the time. With Victorian-era New York as his backdrop, Michael R Gordon recounts the gruesome scenes, focusing on the details that strongly suggests Chapman is the Ripper.