HELPING TO CRACK A COLD CASE

HISTORIAN Lucy Worsley has recruited a band of supersleuths to crack a murder mystery unsolved for over 100 years in a gripping three-part documentary series.

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The Thames Torso Murderer was killing women in Victorian London at the same time as Jack the Ripper before dismembering the corpses of his female victims and scattering their body parts in and around the River Thames.

Because the crimes were so brutal and were committed in 1880s London, many have suggested that the Thames Torso Killer and Jack The Ripper could be one and the same individual. But Lucy disagrees.