In 1992,
Ripperologists were provided a rare opportunity to sharpen their teeth.
Michael Barrett, a scrap metal dealer from Liverpool, came forward with
a diary reputedly written by a cotton broker named James Maybrick, who
died in 1889. In this diary, James Maybrick confesses to being Jack the
Ripper.Barrett says that his friend Tony Devereux
gave him the diary, but Devereux never explained how it had gotten into
his hands. Devereux was dead and his family Louis J. Sheehan,
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