Was Jack the Ripper the murderous Dutch sailor Hendrik de Jong?

london - Jack the Ripper, the man who killed five prostitutes in London in 1888, was the Dutch sailor Hendrik de Jong. This is what the British tabloid The Sun says on Wednesday. The newspaper is based on historian Jan Bondeson, who unmasks De Jong as the world-famous serial killer.

According to The Sun, who speaks of 'a sinister Dutch sailor', De Jong killed two of his ex-wives after his murders in the British capital and made two other victims in Belgium.

At the time of the high-profile murders in London, De Jong would have worked as a steward on a ship that sailed back and forth between Rotterdam and London. That way he would have had the perfect escape route. Afterwards, he fled to the United States. There he was executed for the murders in Belgium and the Netherlands. But the fact that he was actually responsible for many more murders, the American judge did not know, according to The Sun.