Jack the Ripper Tours in London: Walk Whitechapel's Streets

# Jack the Ripper Tours Bring Whitechapel's 1888 Murders Back to Life

Visitors to London can join guided walking tours through the Whitechapel district that retrace the unsolved 1888 Jack the Ripper murders, departing year-round from the East End. The most distinctive option, the Jack the Ripper Tour with Ripper-Vision, uses handheld projectors to display Victorian-era images of the very streets where the killings took place — turning a modern London evening into a window onto the autumn of terror that gripped the British capital more than 130 years ago.

The Crimes That Shocked Victorian London

In the late summer and autumn of 1888, an unidentified killer murdered and mutilated several women in the East End of London. The crimes were concentrated in Whitechapel, then one of the most impoverished districts in the capital, where overcrowded lodging houses, poorly lit alleys and grinding poverty created the conditions in which the killer was able to strike and disappear without trace. The murderer was never identified, and the case remains one of the most studied unsolved crimes in modern history.

The tours focus on the geography of those killings — the courtyards, pubs and street corners where bodies were discovered and where police, journalists and vigilance committees searched in vain for a suspect. Walking the route at night, with the same narrow streets still recognisable, is the closest most visitors will come to the atmosphere of the original investigation.

The Ripper-Vision Tour

The Jack the Ripper Tour with Ripper-Vision lasts approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes and is priced from $24.90 per person, according to its