1. Editorial

You say its your birthday...

2. A Talk with Neal Shelden

The Editor has a chat with the sleuthing geneaologist

5. Walking the Beat with Stewart P. Evans

"Ripperology:" A Term Coined By...

8. A Short Look at Long Liz

Des McKenna shares his Cloak & Dagger Club talk

18. Murder Most Foul, Part Three

Tim Mosley concludes the Ripper's motivations

33. The New York Affair, Part One

Wolf Vanderlinden ponders the death of "Old Shakespeare"

46. An American Cop in Whitechapel

Bernard Brown with another story from the Met archives

50. The Bookcase

Christopher T. George looks at "The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London," The EDitor chases "The Devil in the White City," engages in "Debunking History" and looks over "Catherine Eddowes: Jack the Ripper Victim," while Jim DiPalma pops the "Casebook Message Boards" CD-ROM in his computer.

54. News and Notes

Liverpool Conference 2003, a promotion for our co-editor, a new Ripper website

56. The Whitechapel Letterbox

"Say, boss..."