Hammersmith nude murders

A Metropolitan Police identikit of a suspect, compiled from a description by an eyewitness following the murder of Frances Brown in 1964. The suspect has never been apprehended or identified.

The Hammersmith nude murders is the name of a series of six murders in West London, England, in 1964 and 1965.[1] The victims, all prostitutes, were found undressed in or near the River Thames, leading the press to nickname the killer Jack the Stripper (a reference to Jack the Ripper).[2][3] Two earlier murders, committed in West London in 1959 and 1963, have also been linked by some investigators to the same perpetrator.[3][4][5]

Despite "intense media interest and one of the biggest manhunts in Scotland Yard's history" the case is unsolved.[3][6] Forensic evidence gathered at the time is believed to have been destroyed or lost.[7]

  1. ^ Gates, James (12 March 2012). "Retro: The mystery of the Jack the Stripper murders". Get West London. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  2. ^ Sanderson, Mark (17 September 2006). "Crime: Mark Sanderson on the seductively seamy side of 1960S london". The Sunday Telegraph. London. Retrieved 4 January 2017 – via InfoTrac.
  3. ^ a b c Stewart, Graham (16 December 2006). "A gruesome echo of the Suffolk horror". The Times. No. 68885. London. p. 19.
  4. ^ Newton 2006, p. 135.
  5. ^ Moore 2013, p. 105.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference get was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Ford, Richard (11 February 2019). "New clue to identity of killer known as Jack the Stripper". The Times. Scientific evidence from the murders has either been lost or destroyed.