JACK THE RIPPER AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A startling new theory on the identity of the world's first serial killer!
Greetings to Gold and Silver Level Templar Knights. I have been busy on a major true crime investigation over the last two years and can now share the identity of the world’s most notorious serial killer: Jack the Ripper
On May 28, 2024, my latest book - Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln - is published by Troubador and you can pre-order it now on Amazon - though only from the United Kingdom. The United States edition will be available later in the year but if you don’t mind paying a little extra for postage, you can get your very own copy now. Don’t miss out!
Who is my key suspect? He is already a recognised suspect - an Irish-American called Francis Tumblety - but what I have uncovered about him is truly startling. From contemporary newspaper reports, court and police records, I have confirmed that Tumblety was arrested and imprisoned as a suspect in both the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (in 1865) and the Jack the Ripper killings (in 1888). But there is more…much more!
Connected to John Wilkes Booth
The book will reveal for the first time Tumblety’s connection to the gang that murdered Lincoln led by John Wilkes Booth who fired the fatal bullet. Previously ignored evidence - there in print if you choose to look for it - confirms that Tumblety knew Booth and other members of his gang.
I have followed Tumblety through the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and so on - uncovering a litany of crimes that he perpetrated - while enjoying celebrity status as “the Indian Herb Doctor” of global renown. Think of a celebrity online or TV doctor today and you have the equivalent of Francis Tumblety (minus the murders hopefully!).
Jack the Ripper
The book will detail how American police tipped off Scotland Yard about Tumblety during the Ripper killing spree and why London’s police truly believed they had the fiend in their hands…until he slipped away. His escape from justice in 1888 is examined and the failure to extradite him from the US to the UK when the relevant extradition treaties were in place.
The compelling evidence later in his life that points to his guilt as Jack the Ripper. You will be left in no doubt that Tumblety was the man who terrorised Whitechapel in the second half of 1888, committing the most dreadful crimes against women.
Tumblety - a gay serial killer
Tumblety was outwardly and boldly gay - trailed by police and private detectives for decades. The word ‘homosexual’ may only have been popularised by the emerging science of psychology in the 1880s…but believe, it didn’t need to be defined into existence.
I ridicule the embarrassment some historians experience when tackling Tumblety’s overt homosexuality. Oh, they declare, “intimate relations” meant something else in the 19th century. Did it ever! As a former print journalist myself, I laughed out loud at some of the reports of his court appearances when young men accused Tumblety of lewd conduct and sexual assault.
But, you may say, how and why would a gay man have murdered women on the streets of London in 1888? Good question. One I will answer in the book without revealing too much now.
To say this is a page turner is no understatement. Get your copy now!
