Emilia Fox unmasks the real Jack the ripper…
As the tenacious forensic pathologist Dr Nikki Alexander in long-running drama Silent Witness, Emilia Fox is no stranger to crime-solving.
Now, the actress becomes a real-life criminal investigator in BBC1’s new documentary Jack the Ripper: The Case Reopened.
She joins Ripper expert Professor David Wilson to re-examine the killer’s Whitechapel crime scenes from the Victorian era and re-create the autopsies of his victims using modern technology to unmask the Ripper’s true identity.
Here, Fox, 44, tells us more about what she found out about Britain’s most infamous serial killer…
What made you want to take part in the documentary?
I only really knew about the legend of Jack the Ripper, so being given the opportunity to discover all the details and the history for myself was fascinating.
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