1888: 19-year-old Joseph Vacher was closely following in the press the crimes of a mysterious killer who was haunting the streets of Whitechapel. Six years later, he armed himself with a razor and mutilated in the most atrocious of ways, young shepherds that he hunted down in rural France. His reign of terror lasted three years and resulted in eleven victims, slaughtered, disemboweled, sexually mutilated and desecrated to satisfy, according to the experts of the time, “his grim passion”.
Joseph the Ripper
follows the chaotic journey of one of the most brutal serial killers in Europe, until his last steps towards the guillotine.