Shows like Whitechapel

If you want that same blend of methodical procedural intensity with a detective's psychological unraveling, you'd likely find London Kills or The Chelsea Detective most promising—both pair episodic murder investigations with a lead detective's mounting personal demons in grimdark London settings. For the historical fog and serial killer obsession that defines Whitechapel's atmosphere, Ripper Street probably comes closest, tracking the same obsessive methodology through Victorian crime scenes, though Dalgliesh offers a more contemporary take on that same formula of brilliant detectives excavating human darkness through careful investigation. If you're drawn specifically to the procedural tension and forensic rigor, Suspects and How To Catch a Serial Killer will likely scratch that itch, though neither quite captures Whitechapel's particular blend of psychological cat-and-mouse games with the serial killer methodology itself.