#12: Jack the Ripper’s Identity
Jack the Ripper is one of the most famous serial killers in history. The thing is, we don’t know his true identity. The identity of Jack the Ripper remains one of the biggest true crime mysteries of our modern age. We may never know the killer’s true identity because the London murders happened almost 150 years ago.
But what if the police force in the late 1880s knew Jack the Ripper’s true identity and failed to catch him? Some Ripperologists believe that Jack the Ripper was detained by Whitechapel police and questioned before being released. He then fled the country, which would explain the abrupt end to the murders. It’s hard to believe that the police would continue to cover up a blunder like this after all these years, in our opinion.