Jack the Ripper bombshell as killer's identity finally revealed, book claims
Jack the Ripper's identity may have finally been revealed, a new book claims.
The serial killer sparked a wave of fear in London's East End in 1888 with a number of brutal murders, with all of his victims being women. The five known victims had their throats cut with a number of mutilations.
For 135 years, the identity of the Ripper has been a mystery - until now. Former police volunteer Sarah Bax Horton claims the name of the notorious serial killer was Hyam Hyams, a cigar maker who suffered with epilepsy.
Hyams was in and out of mental hospitals and was a heavy drinker.
An expert claims Hyam Hyams, a cigar maker in the East End, is the real serial killer (London Metropolitan Archives)Sarah's great-great-grandather was a policeman in the original investigation. She says she has uncovered damning medical records that solve the case.
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Not only did Hyams live at the centre of the murders, medical records describe his “peculiar gait” after an injury left him unable to straighten his knees, Sarah claims.
She told the Telegraph: “He was weak at the knees and wasn’t fully extending his legs.
Sarah Bax Horton, who was a relative to an officer who conducted the original investigation, claims Hyam Hyams is Jack the Ripper"When he walked, he had a kind of shuffling gait, which was probably a side-effect of some brain damage as a result of his epilepsy.”
What's more, witnesses describe the infamous killer as being a man in his mid-thirties. They also said he had a stiff arm and an irregular gait and bent knees.
Hyams was 35 during the year the murders occurred, and his height and weight matched witness testimonies.
Sarah said the records also describe Hyams as being “particularly violent” after severe epileptic fits and claims his deterioration matches the increasing violence of the Ripper murders. She said his decline could have triggered him to kill.
The murders also stopped in 1888 - around the time Hyams was picked up by police as a “wandering lunatic” and later committed at the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum in North London.
Jack the Ripper murdered at least five women in Whitechapel in the East End of London. Sarah, who was a volunteer with City of London Police for almost two decades, only discovered her ancestral connection to the case during her research.
Her book One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper comes out next month.
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