"Jack The Ripper" returns

For those of you that do not know who "Jack The Ripper" was... firstly I gotta say "ignorance is bliss" (in this case at least)... secondly here's a quick lesson in history for ya...

Jack the Ripper terrorized the impoverished Whitechapel area of Victorian London during the latter half of 1888, and murdered at least five women working as prostitutes: Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Some Ripperologists believe the killer may have been responsible for as many as thirteen other murders in the area, leaving a wake of headless torsos and butchered women up through 1891. There are many theories about the identity of Jack the Ripper. Was he nobility, a physician, a butcher, or a woman? We will probably never know. During the time of the brutal killings, thousands of letters were received claiming to be from the notorious murderer, but only a handful are considered authentic.

Personally, I've always been captivated by the legend of "Jack The Ripper". Oh! & not just me, "Jack The Ripper" has even been an inspiration to Hollywood Directors Albert & Allen Hughes who directed "From Hell (2001)" starring the can-do-anything Johnny Depp as Inspector Frederick George Abberline and a red-headed Heather Graham as Mary Kelly (loosely based on Maria Kelly, the fifth and final Ripper murder victim).

Though this serial killer has been long gone, Jack the Ripper is about to return to the part of London he made his own private killing ground in one of history's most infamous unsolved crimes. The return of the 19th century prostitute killer is in the form of an exhibition looking at the era, the area, the victims and the possible perpetrators of the crimes that shocked the nation and have since become a rich seam of popular fiction.

The exhibition, which opens in London's Museum in Docklands on May 15 and runs to November 2, also peels away some of the myths surrounding the murderer whose identity remains to this day a topic of heated speculation. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of lectures and talks and guided walks down the streets where the Ripper committed his bloody deeds 120 years ago.

Now that's what I call an exhibition !!!