Jack the Ripper mystery solved after 125 years. The Jack the Ripper case has captured the imaginations of mystery and true crime fans, not to mention authors and movie directors, since grisly crimes were first reported from the streets of London.

In spite of all the attention, the Jack the Ripper murder remain unsolved.

The Jack the Ripper murder spree has had investigators puzzled for over a centry.

Not anymore. The Jack the Ripper mystery has been solved. But you're not going to like it. Jack the Ripper never existed.

Jack the Ripper, the world's first celebrity serial killer  was made up by Thomas Bulling, a drunken journalist who forged a letter pretending to be Jack the Ripper that he sent to Scotland Yard in 1888.

Jack the Ripper has been the subject of over 300 books, scores of movies and TV shows.

Jack the Ripper terrorized the Whitechapel area of London with the brutal murders of five women. Jack the Ripper didn't just slash their throats, he disemboweled them.

More than 100 different men have been named to be Jack the Ripper, sometimes on almost no evidence at all. Jack the Ripper suspects have included Queen Victoria's grandson, the Duke of Clarence, and Lewis Carroll, who wrote "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass. Even a famous Sioux Indian warrior named Black Elk was under suspicion. Black Elk  toured Britain with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in the 1880s. Some investigators focused on a campaigner for child charities named Dr. Barnardo was "Jack".

Trevor Marriott reviewed the cold-case killings for eleven years. Trevor Marriott is  a former murder squad detective with Bedfordshire police. He applied modern police techniques and state of the art forensic evidence to the Scotland Yard files on the killing.

Tevor Marriott says "The facts of this case have been totally distorted over the years. The general public have been completely misled by any number of authors and publishers. Jack is supposed to be responsible for five victims, but there were other similar murders before and after the ones attributed to him, both in this country and abroad in America and Germany."

The intrepid detective found 17 unsolved Ripper-like murders committed between 1863 and 1894. Marriot thinks the evidence points to a German merchant seaman named Carl Feigenbaum for some of the murders. But not all of them.

Feigenbaum was a member of the crew on a ship that docked regularly near Whitechapel. In 1896, the seaman was put to death in New York after he was caught fleeing the scene of a Jack the Ripper-style murder.

Trevor Marriott says, "The reality is there was just a series of unsolved murders and they would have sunk into oblivion many years ago, but for a reporter called Thomas Bulling. Police got a letter that Bulling had written about the murders which he signed 'Jack the Ripper.' It was the most ingenious piece of journalism that has kept this mystery alive for 125 years. Even now any modern-day serial killer is called a 'Ripper'. You have to ask yourself if 'Jack' is an urban myth. Around 80 per cent of the books about him have a picture of a chap on the front stalking the streets of London in a long black cape and a top hat. "They were the clothes of an upper class, wealthy man. But back in 1888  if someone dressed like that had actually walked around Whitechapel in the dead of night they wouldn't have lasted five minutes. It wasn't just one of the most crime-riddled areas of London, it was one of the worst areas in the country. It's a false image that has been created by the likes of Hollywood film makers. New facts have come to light, we've now disproved the claim that the killer removed organs from the victims at the scenes of the murders, the organs were removed later once they were in a mortuary."

Marriott concluded "There just isn't a Jack The Ripper as such."