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 Scotland Yard in 1888 on suspicion of being Jack the Ripper who then jumped bail and fled back to New York. What happened after he arrived?
The answer is alarming and surprising.
