Whitechapel

How the Tabloid Press Turned the Ripper Murders into Myth

A BBC report revisits how late-19th-century newspapers transformed the Whitechapel murders into a durable modern legend, blending crime reporting with sensationalism, speculation, and commercial competition. The result was not only a public panic, but a media-made mythology that still shapes global fascination with Jack the Ripper more than a century later.