This is exactly right.

This story contains adult content and language,

along with references to sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised. I did not ask to write about Jack the Ripper. I got ambushed by him and I'm still mad at him because I had a perfectly reasonable, sensible, nice little life until he came along.

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the co-host of the podcast Buried Bones

on exactly right and throughout my career research for my many audio and book

projects has taken me around the world. On wicked words, I sit down with the people

I've met along the way, amazing writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters who have

investigated and reported on notorious true crime cases.

This is about the choices writers make, both good and bad,

and it's a deep dive into the unpublished details behind their stories.

Our next guest is a legend.

It's novelist Patricia Cornwall.

She's one of my mother's most favorite authors

and she's also a non-fiction writer and several years ago

she wrote a book about Jack the Ripper called Portrait of a Killer Jack the Ripper case closed.

This book is Patricia's opinion on his identity based on her

extensive research. Patricia believes that Jack the Ripper was a German

British artist named Walter Sickert. This is a controversial opinion according to some

ripporologists and you'll hear why. Again this is Patricia's theory and I'm not a

riparologist but I loved our conversation.

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