Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln by Tony McMahon
Canada Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper – the Canadian connection

Francis Tumblety was an Irish-American arrested as a suspect by Scotland Yard in the Jack the Ripper case in 1888. But, he had a long criminal record even by then, which included being arrested in 1865 as a suspect in the assassination of President Abraham …

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Did Jack the Ripper kill in New York?

TV historian Tony McMahon investigates whether Jack the Ripper also claimed victims in New York – and elsewhere in the United States. His new book – Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln – follows the life of Ripper suspect, Francis Tumblety. An Irish-American arrested by …

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Jack the Ripper – was he Irish?

TV historian Tony McMahon goes to Dublin in search of Jack the Ripper’s Irish roots. If, as he believes, this serial killer was the Irish-American, Francis Tumblety, then it’s essential to understand where his life began and the early influences that turned him into such …

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Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln

Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln – an introduction

Jack the Ripper – an LGBT Irish-American? A man implicated twenty-five years earlier in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln? A serial killer with a younger accomplice who struck first in Canada and Texas? Prepare yourself for a whole new dimension on the Jack the …

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