The Grand Rapids Ballet Company is doing Jack the Ripper for the Halloween season. From the article:

Classical ballet has told tales of princesses, mythical personalities and Shakespearean characters, but never about murderers -- which is what intrigued GRBC artistic director Gordon Peirce Schmidt.

"No one's done it," Schmidt said. "To my knowledge, no one's done 'Jack the Ripper.'"

Interesting. I know of operas (Lulu) and scores of songs, movies and TV shows about Jack. There really hasn't been a professional ballet before?

Hmm. According to this site, the upcoming video game featuring Jack the Ripper has the player as Jack killing "demons."

This won't end well.

Rumor has it that EA, makers of video games, has trademarked "The Ripper" to possibly be the name of an upcoming video game.

Here is a link to a Daily Mail story concerning M.J. Trow's new book and the documentary coming out this month. Basically, Trow adds Alice Mackenzie and Martha Tabram to the five canonical victims and fingers the morgue attendant responsible for Polly Nichols' body as the suspect.

M.J. Trow, author of numerous stories with Lestrade from the Sherlock Holmes stories and the book The Many Faces of Jack the Ripper, is publishing a book called Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer. The Discovery Channel is running a documentary based on Trow's findings called Jack the Ripper: Killer Revealed on October 11th.

Trow names morgue attendant Robert Mann as the killer, and adds two victims to the Ripper's list.

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The East London Advertiser writes that you can find the census reports for the Ripper victims at a website called Find My Past.com

Since the link doesn't seem to want to work here, I've pasted the story below:

Census details of Ripper's victims now online

15 September 2009
RIPPEROLOGISTS can now see online census records which help debunk some of the myths about his victims.

Scanned images of the 1881 census can now be viewed on www.findmypast.com.

The 1881 census gives a snapshot of the women seven years before they met their grisly end at the hands of Jack the Ripper in Whitechapel.

Two of his victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were living with their husbands seven years before the murders and 40-year-old Annie Chapman was staying with her parents before moving to be with her husband, stud groom in Berkshire.

None of them were living with their husbands at the time of their death and all of them were in their 40s, not young women in their 20s, despite the perception of popular myth that they were.

The "loudest rock band in the world" is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their movie, This Is Spinal Tap, and along with a new album due next month, they've released a free MP3 of "Saucy Jack," part of the never-completed rock opera about Jack the Ripper. Go to spinaltap.com for more information.