How could the beloved author of the children’s classic “Alice in Wonderland” possibly be the same mysterious serial killer who murdered prostitutes in London during the late 1800s? Richard Wallace, author of the 1996 book Jack the Ripper: Light-Hearted Friend, claimed the clues can be found in Carroll’s own books.
Several passages in novels like Sylvie and Bruno, written around the same time of the murders, were actually anagrams, Wallace claimed. If you rearranged certain sentences, they would become horrifying confessions, like: “I got a tight hold of her and slit her throat, left ear to right.”
Wallace, however, took a lot of creative license with the anagrams, and often left out words to make his case. His theory is likely not true, but it still makes us shiver just to imagine a children’s author going on the prowl for victims at night.
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