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Fresh corpses were sold by crafty criminal gangs to hospital surgeons in desperate need of fresh bodies to dissect for medial purposes - yet this sinister crime often goes overlooked in Victorian history

Murder was a scandal that shocked Victorian-era Liverpool to the core

The sinister gang of men known as the London Burkers snatched 1,000 corpses from graves all over 1820s London before turning to murder - yet their malicious story is far lesser known than their infamous criminal counterparts

The killings of Jack the Ripper remain shrouded in mystery long after the deaths of the victims in 1888. Wild tales about the victims and the killer himself are often wide of the mark, say experts

Tennis legend John McEnroe ruffled some feathers during his days as a player to the point he featured in a list alongside the likes of Adolf Hitler and Jack the Ripper

The last of the extraordinary Lusby siblings has been laid to rest.

Letters: Simon Casimir Wilson says there is no connection between the killer and the artist, while Dr Anette Magnussen feels uneasy about Tate Britain’s exhibition

In the classic Western "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," there is a famous line that says "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." However, printing a legend doesn't turn it into a fact - a situation that has been affirmed over the centuries as bizarre rumors, urban legends…

The dead bodies of murdered women are served up as butcher’s meat in this survey of work by the Victorian painter who almost certainly claimed to the police to be Jack the Ripper

This marvellously comprehensive exhibition documents the evolution of Sickert as an artist

A Tate retrospective portrays the English artist as a master of disguise, and in thrall to his early stage career