Robert Donston Stephenson
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Robert Donston Stephenson (1841 – 1916) was an English writer and journalist who became a suspect in Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel murders in 1888.
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During the Terror caused by Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel murders, Stephenson wrote a strange newspaper article, in which he claimed that black magic had been the motive for the murders. Shortly after the article was published, Stephenson disappeared.[1]
Having signed himself into a hospital shortly before the murders started, the Metropolitan Police Service considered Stephenson a viable suspect, seeing as he had been able to freely leave the hospital whenever he wanted.[1]
Inspector Frederick Abberline tasked the Assassin Evie Frye with finding Stephenson and safely escorting him so that he could be interrogated.[1]