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Title How Language Nerds Solve Crimes Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet Youtube Media type Web Country/Territory United States Date 26/01/24 URL https://youtu.be/-EVXdhstw14?si=VA4jwtIli1KKvCWV Persons Andrea Nini Title Jack The Ripper Letters ‘Were Victorian Fake News’ Media name/outlet Huffington Post Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/02/18 Description Letters supposedly signed by Jack the Ripper have been analysed by a forensic linguist who has come to some surprisingly topical conclusions.
It is said that the shadowy figure who stalked the foggy alleyways of Whitechapel in 1888 murdering five women during his reign of terror was also a prolific letter writer too – or was he?
Manchester University’s Dr Andrea Nini decided to focus on two of the earliest letters supposedly sent by the serial killer (more than 200 are attributed to him) - namely the ‘Dear Boss’ letter, in which the name Jack the Ripper was first written, and the ‘Saucy Jacky’ postcard.URL www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jack-the-ripper-letters-were-victorian-fake-news_uk_5a733abce4b0146e5945191d?9nm&utm_hp_ref=uk-homepage Persons Andrea Nini Title Jack the Ripper letters ‘faked to sell newspapers’ Media name/outlet The Times Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/02/18 Description They’re the blood-curdling letters that have given nightmares and a morbid thrill to generations of crime readers — a window into the soul of Jack the Ripper who laughs as his victims “squeal”.
However, a computer analysis has added to suspicions that two of the most notorious Ripper letters were incredibly successful Victorian fake news, designed to sell papers.
Andrea Nini, of Manchester University, analysed 209 letters sent to police or newspapers around the time of at least five linked Whitechapel murders of 1888, using methods employed in forensics to search for similarities.URL https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jack-the-ripper-letters-faked-to-sell-newspapers-smghhdxgc Persons Andrea Nini
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Title The journalist who created Jack the Ripper Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet Oxford University Press blog Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 9/10/19 URL https://blog.oup.com/2019/10/journalist-created-jack-the-ripper/ Persons Andrea Nini
Keywords
- Jack the Ripper
- serial killers
- history
- linguistics