You can find information on Jack the Ripper here: https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/jack-the-ripper
WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER?
Lucius disguises himself in a high-tech invisibility suit that he had originally made for Bruce and borrows Jeremiah's time machine from the City of Gotham (through the Mayor's office) to go back to Victorian London. He prowls the murder sites of Jack the Ripper until he figures out who committed them. Then he returns to our time, unseen.
Ed pores over the old forensic files with a fine-toothed comb, finding things that the original investigators missed, paying special attention to the cut marks, wounds, angles of penetration, etc. on the bodies. He personally works out how they might have been made with corpses awaiting autopsy at the GCPD, getting into the head of the killer until he figures out which suspect did it.
Oswald puts out feelers within his vast network of contacts in the Gotham underworld, seeking out those who may have had ties to London over a century ago. He tortures a few of them that do until he gets to one to confesses that Jack the Ripper was actually an ancestor of theirs. It's a shameful family secret. Good. Now Oswald has some excellent fodder for blackmail. He lets the man go. For now.
Jeremiah actually knows that Jack the Ripper was his great great great great grandfather. So what? It's no big deal.
What will the guys solve next? Could it be cryptozootic? . . . The Kraken or the Loch Ness Monster? Or perhaps another geometrical mystery? Tune in to find out!
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The Smartest Men in Gotham
FanfictionFollow the adventures of the four smartest men in Gotham: Ed Nygma, Jeremiah Valeska, Lucius Fox, & Oswald Cobblepot as they work to solve history's greatest mysteries/puzzles/problems. And don't forget to have fun! ;-)
