He is the 19th-century Impressionist painter Walter Richard Sickert, a disciple of Whistler and friend of Degas, a frequenter of London's demimonde who painted prostitutes menaced by malevolent male figures and who has been fingered before as a suspect. It has spawned an industry of books, Web sites, tourist attractions and countless suspects over the years. Cornwell has spent $6 million hiring forensic scientists and gathering evidence to crack the case, one of the oldest unsolved serial-killer mysteries on record. Estimates vary, but the prevailing theory is that he killed five. And now she is obsessed with Jack the Ripper, who terrorized the East End of London from August to November 1888, murdering and disemboweling prostitutes. She is obsessed with injustice, with animal rights, with serial killers. Cornwell is the author of the best-selling Kay Scarpetta novels about an intrepid medical examiner who solves gruesome serial killings. Patricia Cornwell is at the controls of a Bell 407 helicopter, ferrying a visitor to her estate in Greenwich, Conn., her smoothly cropped blond head just visible in the pilot's seat.
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