RIPPEROLOGY - A tasteless and prurient interest in the crimes of the Whitechapel Murderer. The fact that the deviant(s) behind the so-called 'ripper' murders remained undetected was an undoubted boon to their subsequent celebrity. Similar sprees have been largely forgotten on account of the negligible personalities of the nondescripts responsible.

The Whitechapel slayings were almost certainly committed by the 19th century equivalent of a Rotary Club events' committee. Revelation would, naturally, be disastrous for the thriving 'Ripper' industry.

 

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