Despite investigation by Scotland Yard the case remained famously unsolved. She then proceeded to wander down the street and disappear into the fog before the policeman could summon reinforcements. Mr Ricoletti was heard to identify the woman as his wife, Emelia, before she shot him twice in the chest. After asking Mr Ricoletti whether he recognized their wedding song, the woman removed her veil to reveal to him her face. This scene attracted the attention of a nearby constable, who was however unarmed and unable to intervene. A woman in a white wedding dress and veil exited the coach and approached Ricoletti carrying a shotgun, all the while singing. However, only a few hours later that evening her husband, Thomas Ricoletti, was exiting an opium den in Limehouse when he was stopped in the street by a carriage. At the time of her death she was twenty-six years old. Eventually she placed one gun in her mouth and publicly committed suicide. In an apparent fit of madness she began firing off two revolvers indiscriminately into the street, all the while saying "you?". On the morning of December 18, 1894, the day of her wedding anniversary, Mrs Ricoletti appeared on the balcony of her home wearing her wedding gown, pale as death and with what appeared to be lipstick smeared around her mouth. Because of its unusual nature and apparent supernatural characteristics, the case became a famous ghost story and was associated with a number of subsequent murders. Her case attracted considerable attention after the subsequent murder of her husband, Thomas Ricoletti, by a woman he identified as Emelia. Emelia Ricoletti was a famous suicide of the late nineteenth century.
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