Jill the Ripper and the city of the dreadful night

Meet Mary Pearcey (a Midwife)who was one of 28 main suspects in the Whitechapel murders of the 1880's.The leader of the enquiry Inspector Abberline thought the "Ripper" could be a women, because of the apparent ease the Ripper moved among the prostitute's of the east end.
Mary Pearcey was later hanged for the murder of her lover and his family and was described by the press as a women of "extraordinary strength and physique".

In the late 1990's a letter was found in a London bookshop which has been verified as being written by a Special Branch officer Inspector Littlechild to a friend actually naming a man who he believed to be the Ripper, a name that does not appear in any previous history -

"I never heard of a Dr D. in connection with the Whitechapel murders but amongst the suspects, and to my mind a very likely one, was a Dr. T. (which sounds much like D.) He was an American quack named Tumblety and was at one time a frequent visitor to London and on these occasions constantly brought under the notice of police, there being a large dossier concerning him at Scotland Yard. Although a 'Sycopathia Sexualis' subject he was not known as a 'Sadist' (which the murderer unquestionably was) but his feelings toward women were remarkable and bitter in the extreme, a fact on record. Tumblety was arrested at the time of the murders in connection with unnatural offences and charged at Marlborough Street, remanded on bail, jumped his bail, and got away to Boulogne. He shortly left Boulogne and was never heard of afterwards. It was believed he committed suicide".

Tumblety did not commit suicide but went back to America (Rochester NY) and was hounded by the American press as the main Ripper suspect, stories that never appeared in the British press.
Tumblety was a flamboyant dresser and wore expensive jewellery, but on the list of items listed when he died on his possesion was two very cheap rings, which matched the description of one of the many trophies taken from the Ripper victims.