EPISODE 11: THE HUNT CONTINUES ## PART ONE: RIPPEROLOGY ### CHAPTER 1: THE PURSUIT The search for Jack the Ripper never ended. It transformed from a police investigation into a historical puzzle, from urgent manhunt into scholarly obsession. Generations of researchers have devoted their lives to solving a case that may be unsolvable. This phenomenon has a name: Ripperology. Ripperologists are amateur historians, professional researchers, retired detectives, forensic scientists, and curious obsessives. They gather in conferences, debate in journals, argue on websites. They form a community united by a single question: Who was Jack the Ripper? The answer has never been found. But the search continues. --- ### CHAPTER 2: THE SUSPECTS Over the past century, hundreds of suspects have been proposed. Some are serious candidates supported by circumstantial evidence and scholarly argument. Others are fanciful theories based on speculation, coincidence, or outright fabrication. The range is astonishing. Royalty has been accused: Prince Albert Victor, Queen Victoria's grandson, allegedly driven to murder by syphilis-induced madness. The theory has no credible evidence and has been thoroughly debunked, but it persists because it's dramatic. Artists have been named: Walter Sickert, the painter, was accused in a bestselling book that claimed his paintings contained hidden confessions. The theory required massive leaps of inference and has been rejected by most scholars. Doctors have...