It has been one hundred and twenty-three years since England's most notorious crime suspect first made the news. Yet a recent headline reads "Scotland Yard fights to keep Jack the Ripper files secret." One of the most renowned murder cases investigated in England's history, the Jack the Ripper case has fostered a multitude of examination over the years from Scotland Yard, the FBI, journalist, medical examiners and crime writers themselves. Over one hundred suspects have been named in the case, including Queen Victoria’s grandson, the Duke of Clarence and her doctor, Sir John Williams. Literary giant Lewis Carroll was suspected, as was the bodily deformed actor known as the Elephant Man. And several years ago crime writer Patricia Cornwell offered a stirring portrait of artist Walter Sickert as an intriguing possibility. Very recent however, a new sleuth has presented a highly credible suspect, and this time, detectives and scholars alike believe this prospect to be the closest the case will ever come to being solved.