Jack the Ripper
Subject in True Crime
Jack the Ripper has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Morbid. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Alaina UrquhartCo-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels
Urquhart rejects recent DNA-based claims that the Ripper had been identified.
“When the DNA came out recently and everybody's like, oh, they figured out who it was. I was like, no, they didn't”
Morbid: True Crime: A Sit Down With Patricia Cornwell (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 1:01:45
Patricia CornwellCrime novelist and creator of the Kay Scarpetta series
Cornwell argues the Ripper's attacks were not precise but escalated in violence, which police failed to recognize.
“what the police never figured out, which is really obvious if you do this research is that the Ripper got more and more violent”
Morbid: True Crime: A Sit Down With Patricia Cornwell (May 4, 2026) · Listen from 58:40
Podcasts
- Morbid · 1 episode
Episodes
True Crime: A Sit Down With Patricia CornwellMorbid · May 4, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell talks with Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley about her memoir True Crime, personal safety, autopsies, Jack the Ripper and the Scarpetta TV series.