Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell: I spent $7 million solving the Jack the Ripper case

02/24/2017

Five years ago I happened to be looking at a crime scene photo of Jack the Ripper victim Mary Kelly. She’s erroneously believed to be his fifth and final victim. But more likely she was his seventh or eighth by early November 1888 and unfortunately wouldn’t be his last. I had looked at this particular photograph countless times. More