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- <text id=93TT1359>
- <title>
- Apr. 05, 1993: The Ripper's Tale
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 05, 1993 The Generation That Forgot God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- SOCIETY
- The Ripper's Tale
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A soon to be published book claims to be Jack's own
- </p>
- <p> Ted Bundy. Aileen Wuornos. Andrei Chikatilo. Now that such
- real-life mass murderers have had their day in the media sun,
- isn't it about time the original celebrity-psychopath got to
- take a bow of his own? Have no fear; coming this fall to a
- bookstore near you is The Diary of Jack the Ripper, courtesy of
- U.S. publisher Warner Books and Britain's Smith Gryphon. The
- tome purports to offer the authentic contents of a journal
- penned by the legendary London killer who slashed his way into
- infamy over three months in 1888 by murdering and mutilating at
- least seven and perhaps as many as 14 prostitutes in the city's
- tawdry Whitechapel district. The published edition promises to
- include a facsimile of the Ripper's confessional document, a
- transcript and material authenticating that the book is the work
- of Jack himself. Bill Waddell, curator of Scotland Yard's closed
- archives, says, "The evidence is unique. It cannot be
- dismissed."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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