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March 27, 1890, Leavenworth, Kansas. A local man places a personal ad in the Leavenworth Times, reporting his wife missing. Soon, her gruesome fate will trigger memories of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders, which shocked London just two years before. The sensational case will make headlines all over America.
Most of the research material for this episode is from these three newspapers:
Leavenworth Times, Leavenworth Standard (defunct), Kansas City Star
Source links:
https://www.genealogybank.com/