Dr. Francis Tumblety & the Railway Ripper

For three decades, a group of transient long-haul trucker serial killers evaded the FBI, committing hundreds of murders of sex workers and hitchhikers along major U.S. highways. This history echoes a deadly pattern from the late nineteenth century, where at least thirty-nine unsolved murders and assaults on women occurred along railways, described as motiveless and mysterious. A common thread in these cases was a suspect fitting a distinct physical description, resembling Dr. Francis Tumblety, a prime suspect in the Jack the Ripper investigation.