The ultimate Halloween horror story...
Adam Wood developed an interest in ‘Jack the Ripper’ when, as a young boy, he was told that his great grandfather Benjamin Wood had seen one of the victims’ bodies. He has subsequently spent more than forty years research the facts behind the case, specifically the social impact on the area and those who lived there at the time.
In this illustrated talk, Adam strips away the decades of myth which has built up around the murders, and reveals the reality of life in Whitechapel, and what happened on those fateful nights.
Adam was Executive Editor of Ripperologist magazine, the largest circulation publication dedicated to serious research of the case, for over twenty years. He is regularly consulted for television, radio and podcast documentaries on the case.
In 2020 he published a detailed biography of the detective in charge of the Ripper investigation from Scotland Yard, having been granted unprecedented access to his private archive by his descendants. This included the private notes in which the fate of the suspect was revealed - as was his name.
