Sickert took a keen interest in the crimes of Jack the Ripper and believed he had lodged in a room used by the notorious serial killer. He had been told this by his landlady, who suspected a previous lodger. ... In 1990 Jean Overton Fuller, in her book Sickert and the Ripper Crimes, maintained that Sickert was the killer.

What artist was Jack the Ripper?

Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was a post-Impressionist English painter, a sometimes-off-putting eccentric, and since the 1970s, a top suspect in the Whitechapel, or Jack the Ripper, Murders of 1888.

Did Patricia Cornwell solve Jack the Ripper?

Thriller writer Patricia Cornwell says she has solved the Jack the Ripper case.