What are They (Still) Hiding?
Scotland Yard is fighting the release of 123-year-old secret files which experts believe could finally provide the identity of Jack the Ripper. These four thick notebooks, containing 36,000 entries compiled by Special Branch officers over 100 years ago, have been kept under lock and key since the "Jack the Ripper" murders in 1888. If they know the identity of the "Ripper" (who wandered the streets of London at night, randomly murdering prostitutes), why do they still want to keep it secret? Was he (as has long been rumored) a Royal?
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