Speakers at the 2008 Jack the Ripper Conference

• Martin Fido - Noted author of The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper and co-author of the classic Jack the Ripper A-Z, Martin Fido is recognized as one of the leading authorities on Jack the Ripper. Martin will give the conference's keynote presentation, which will focus on his experiences in the field of Ripperology, to which his contribution cannot be overestimated.
  
  
• Philip Hutchinson - Philip Hutchinson is one of the better-known Ripper tour guides in London and the co-author of The London of Jack the Ripper: Then and Now. His talk, "The Whitby Collection and Beyond," will focus on the collection of recently discovered photographs of the Ripper murder scenes taken by John Gordon Whitby.
  
  
• Robert J. McLaughlin - Robert J. McLaughlin, author of The First Jack the Ripper Victim Photographs, will be talking about the man responsible for taking most of the mortuary photographs of the Whitechapel victims and the history of their publication, from their beginnings in France to their rediscovery in the 1960s.
  
  
• Eugenia Parry - A writer and adjunct professor in the Dept. of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Eugenia Parry also taught the histories of art and photography at Wellesley College and the University of New Mexico for twenty-five years. Her talk, "What to Do With a French Crime Album? A Writer's Response," will focus on her discovery of an album of 19th century French murder scene photographs and the resulting book, Crime Album Stories.
  
  
• Timothy Riordan - Chief archaeologist at Historic St. Mary's City outdoor museum, and author of the book The Plundering Time, Timothy Riordan is more well known to Ripperologists as the discoverer of the first known photograph of the popular Jack the Ripper suspect Dr. Francis Tumblety. His presentation, which will discuss the mythology surrounding Tumblety, is based upon extensive research he has done preparing a book about the famous quack doctor.
  
  
• Alan Sharp - Writer and researcher Alan Sharp is the author of London Correspondence: Jack the Ripper and the Irish Press and an editor of Ripper Notes magazine. He will be speaking about his current research on the Special Branch and the Whitechapel murders.