My sister sent me this “Today in history” thing this morning:
It was about 4:00 in the morning on this day in 1888 when a constable on patrol in London’s Whitechapel slum found the body of a woman named Mary Ann Nichols near a slaughterhouse. She was the first victim of the most famous murderer in the history of true-crime literature, a man who became known as Jack the Ripper. More books have since been written about Jack the Ripper than all the American presidents combined.

Creepy.

Also kind of oddly synchronous, since yesterday and today I’ve been reading up on the Black Dahlia case, and checking out books from the library.