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  • Murder Investigation Team: Jack the Ripper

  • A 21st Century Investigation
  • By: Steven Keogh
  • Narrated by: Michael Chance
  • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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Murder Investigation Team: Jack the Ripper

By: Steven Keogh
Narrated by: Michael Chance
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Summary

London, 1888, and one-man's brutal campaign of violence has taken the lives of unsuspecting victims, cut the city to the core and carved his name into history. Well, not his name, exactly. Whomever this man was, remains a mystery but there are few people who haven't heard of his nickname: Jack the Ripper.

The same is true for those said to have died at his hands. If Polly Nicholls, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly had not fallen to his knife, their names would have been lost to history. Instead, they themselves are as much a part of the folklore as their killer. Then there are those who investigated the crimes: the ordinary men, doing their jobs as best they could, who will always be associated with the failed attempts to catch this monster.

But if those crimes had happened today, how would they be investigated and how would the approach differ? There is no doubt, how detectives work has changed dramatically over those 130 years. Although, in many senses, things are very much the same. Solving murders relies on an understanding of people, be that the victims, the witnesses and, most importantly, the killers themselves.

In Murder Investigation Team: Jack the Ripper, while journeying through these infamous murders, through meticulous contemporary research, witness statements and reporting, ex-detective Steven Keogh will revisit the crimes that were committed, why these lives were taken, and attempt to discover just who was Jack the Ripper? Applying modern-day investigative approaches to the 19th century investigation, and with ground-breaking insight from one of the UK's leading criminal profilers, Pippa Gregory, join Steven on a gruesome and incredible journey of discovery into one of the most infamous crimes in British history.

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©2022 Steven Keogh (P)2023 Bonnier Books UK
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Very different way of approaching the subject matter

Easy flow narration, plenty new things to learn about the realities of policing then and now.

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Great Application of Thought Processes

Excellent. The work does well examining the case with police thought processes. This led me to re-examining parts of the case I'd previously taken for granted. The narrator was good as well. Worth a go.

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A must read

One of the best books looking into one of the greatest murder mysteries.

They way the author looks at each crime then and how if it happened today would profile the killer and the technical know how of today's forensics and technology at the use of modern day policing.

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Magnicent.

This is by far, the best Whitechapel Murders book I’ve ever read (listened to) magnificent

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Very thorough

Good to get the perspective of a true detective rather than juts speculation and amateur views.

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Informative on the crime scenes

Although I found this book very informative I did get frustrated with the fact that the author explained police procedures today in great depth. As a ripperologist I found some parts a bit patronising. However the structure of the murders and insight into the crimes was very interesting. It doesn’t name anyone who he believes was the ripper but it certainly outrules many beliefs using criminal profiling. Worth a listen to 3.5/5

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