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Image reference: MEPO 3/3153

Letter from individual signed 'Jack The Ripper', 25 September 1888, known as the 'Dear Boss' letter

 

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Image reference: MEPO 3/142 (161)

Letter from individual signed 'Jack The Ripper', received by the Metropolitan Police in October 1888

 

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Image reference: MEPO 3/140

Plan of the railway arches at Pinchin Street, Whitechapel, London, where a body was found on 10 September 1889, attributed to 'Jack The Ripper'

 

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Image reference: MEPO 3/198

Bill for telegrams sent from the SS Montrose in connection with the murder of Mrs Cora Crippen, 2 September 1910

 

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Image reference: MEPO 3/198

Telegram sent by Chief Inspector Walter Dew from Canada confirming the arrest of Dr Crippen, 1 August 1910

 

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Image reference: MEPO 3/198

Police poster for the arrest of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, 16 July 1910

 

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Image reference: MEPO 3/198

A police team searches for the body of the wife of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, 1910

 

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Image reference: COPY 1/557

Sandy McNab, new owner of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, North London, stands at the door, 1911. This was the former property of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen

 

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Image reference: CRIM 1/97/7

Photograph of Beatrice Devereux, murdered by husband Arthur together with her twin sons, on 28 January 1905, and hidden in a trunk