A London murder mystery that has remained unsolved for nearly 140 years may well have finally been cracked.
The case has been reinvestigated in a gripping three-part BBC documentary series, the Lucy Worsley’s Victorian Murder Club.
Super sleuth Worsley believes she, fellow historian Sarah Bax Horton and a team of researchers have solved it.
She told the Times: “I think there’s a very compelling case that we’ve got the guy.
“It was really important to me to have visited the places where we know the remains of at least three of [his victims] are buried in their pauper graveyards
“That’s honouring people who have got missed out of the traditional way that history’s been written.”
Here is everything we know:
What were the Thames Torso Murders?
The killer struck at least four times killing women in late Victorian England.
He dismembered corpses of his victims before scattering their remains in and around the capital’s waterways.
Only one of the victims was ever identified, and that was the body of pregnant prostitute Elizabeth Jackson, in her early 20s.
The other three victims were never identified and buried in unnamed paupers graves in central London.
The BBC have undertaken a full search programme and delved through newspaper archives and found the evidence seems to point towards one man in particular.
The new evidence seems to point towards the killer being a man named James Crick, a bargeman with a history of violence.
Warburton was taken to a steamboat under Tower Bridge where Crick assaulted her, but she hit him with a piece of iron and raised the alarm.
A passing police boat apprehended Crick, who was convicted on Warburton’s testimony and that of an Inspector Charles Ford.
Crick served eight-and-a-half years of a 15-year term for that crime.
In that time, the murders stopped but Crick would have been back on the river by the time of a fifth killing in Vauxhall in 1902. He died in 1907.
Crick might have been caught sooner, the BBC said.
Earlier in 1889, he was accused of attacking Jessie Miller, who was saved by two passing rivermen. She had not been believed and the case dropped.