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In the Shadow of the Ripper : How Forensic Science Failed to Catch Jack - M J Trow Crime author of Can You SolveFor centuries, it was believed that a corpse would `bleed anew' in the presence of its murderer. Chaucer wrote about it; so did Shakespeare. Only slowly, as the Renaissance and the Age of Reason drove away the shadows of superstition, did forensic science find its feet. From the Ratlciffe Highway murders of 1811 to the first murder trial with fingerprint technology (the Stratton brothers in 1905), In the Shadow of the Ripper charts the grisly history