LONDON (AP) -- Best-selling American crime writer Patricia Cornwell has taken out a full-page newspaper ad to defend her investigation into solving a 19th century killing spree. The ads in two British ...

Bestselling author Patricia Cornwell, known for her book "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed," says she doesn’t trust new DNA evidence linking Aaron Kosminski. "I don't believe it was ...

Patricia Cornwell's nonfiction attempt 1 to name serial killer Jack the Ripper reads more like fiction than fact. Cornwell has identified Walter Sickert, a well-known Victorian painter, as Jack the ...

Patricia Cornwell is not only the world's best-selling crime writer, she is also the author of a book that conclusively "proves" that Jack the Ripper was really the well-known painter Walter Sickert.

Jack the Ripper's DNA could match that of respected British artist Walter Sickert, according to a new book from American crime novelist Patricia Cornwell. In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Patricia Cornwell is with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 Speech. Ms. Cornwell talked about her book, Portrait of a Killer: Jack the ...

Mystery writers are a strange breed. Agatha Christie had imaginary friends well into adulthood, Stephen King killed off his alter-ego Richard Bachman with “cancer of the pseudonym,” and Patricia ...