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Jack the Ripper
Drawing of a man with a pulled-up collar and pulled-down hat walking alone on a street watched by a group of well-dressed men behind him
"With the Vigilance Committee in the East End: A Suspicious Character" from The Illustrated London News, 13 October 1888
Background information
Birth name: Identity unknown
Also known as: "Jack the Ripper"
"The Whitechapel Murderer"
"Leather Apron"
Killings
Number of victims: 5+?
Span of killings: 1888 – ?
Country: England
.Jack the Ripper is the best known pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished districts in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media.^ The letter writer says that Jack the Ripper is his trade name.
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 ^ Look and take Jack the Ripper letter 1.
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 ^ A newspaper in Whitechapel received a letter in October 1888 claiming to be from the Ripper.
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 .The letter is widely considered to be a hoax, and may have been written by a journalist in a deliberate attempt to heighten interest in the story.^ The letter is widely considered to be a hoax, and may have been written by a journalist in a deliberate attempt to heighten interest in the story.
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 ^ These are the only letters which may show knowledge of the murders and so which were written by the killer.
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 Other pseudonyms used for the killer at the time were "The Whitechapel Murderer" and "Leather Apron".
.Attacks ascribed to the Ripper typically involved women prostitutes from the slums whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations.^ The Ripper victims had their throats cut.
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 ^ Attacks ascribed to the Ripper typically involve women prostitutes whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations.
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 ^ The Ripper cut Elizabeth Strides throat and then not long later that same night he killed Catherine Eddowes .
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 .The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge.^ The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge.
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 ^ PART THREE, DID THE VICTIMS KNOW THE KILLER? .
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 .Rumours that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and letters from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer were received by media outlets and Scotland Yard.^ Rumours that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and media outlets and Scotland Yard received a series of extremely disturbing letters from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer.
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 ^ Letter sent to Scotland Yard just after Catharine Eddoes Murder .
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 ^ He would also take little to no interest in the murder after it was committed so he would of never sent any letters(the media did).
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 .One letter, received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, included half of a preserved human kidney, supposedly from one of the victims.^ Mr George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, which patrolled the streets trying to capture the Ripper, got a parcel in the post containing half a human kidney.
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 ^ (NOTE: I have also included Martha Tabram in the diagrams, as she was quite possibly a victim of Jack the Ripper, although she is not considered to be one of the canonical victims.
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 ^ I have received but one letter from him since his arrival in the whores country.
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 .Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer, Jack the Ripper.^ Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
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 ^ Many serial killers were more brutal.
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 ^ At least five women, possibly as many as 11, were victims of unsolved murders by an unknown assailant dubbed "Jack the Ripper."
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 .Extensive newspaper coverage bestowed widespread and enduring international notoriety on the Ripper.^ Extensive newspaper coverage bestowed widespread and enduring international notoriety on the Ripper.
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 .An investigation into a series of brutal killings in Whitechapel up to 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888, but the legend of Jack the Ripper solidified.^ You'll certainly have heard of Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders, ...
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 ^ An investigation into a series of brutal killings in Whitechapel up to 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888, but the legend of Jack the Ripper solidified.
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 ^ Emma Elizabeth Smith Emma was 45 years old and was attacked in Osborn Street, Whitechapel (near the other Ripper attacks) onApril 3, 1888, and a blunt object was inserted into her vagina, rupturing her perineum.
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.As the murders were never solved, the legends surrounding them became a combination of genuine historical research, folklore, and pseudohistory.^ As the murders were never solved, the legends surrounding them became a combination of genuine historical research, folklore, and pseudohistory.
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 .The term "ripperology" was coined to describe the study and analysis of the Ripper cases.^ The term "ripperology" was coined to describe the study and analysis of the Ripper cases.
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 .There are over one hundred theories about the Ripper's identity, and the murders have inspired multiple works of fiction.^ There are many videos about Jack the Ripper - this is one of the best.
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 ^ There are over one hundred theories about the Ripper's identity, and the murders have inspired multiple works of fiction.
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 ^ There are Many theories about the Ripper - here are some of the best ones .
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Contents

Background

.In the mid-19th century, England experienced an influx of Irish immigrants, who swelled the populations of England's major cities, including the East End of London.^ Murder and violence were commonplace in the East End and South of London in the late 19th Century.
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 ^ In 1888 Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel in the East End of London .
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 ^ This letter was signed Jack the Ripper leading the world to use this nickname for the uncaught killer who stalked the streets of the East End.
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 From 1882, Jewish refugees from eastern Europe and Tsarist Russia moved into the same area.[1] .The civil parish of Whitechapel in London's East End became increasingly overcrowded.^ Murder and violence were commonplace in the East End and South of London in the late 19th Century.
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 ^ In 1888 Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel in the East End of London .
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 ^ In 1888, the most infamous murders of all time took place in London s East End .
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 Work and housing conditions worsened, and a massive economic underclass developed.[2] Robbery, violence and alcohol dependency were commonplace, and the endemic poverty drove many women to prostitution. .In October 1888, the London Metropolitan Police estimated that there were 1200 prostitutes and about 62 brothels in Whitechapel.^ Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel, London, in the third quarter of 1888.
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 ^ In the fall of 1888 in the grim and gritty Whitechapel district of London, five women plying their trade as prostitutes were brutally murdered.
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 ^ Between the months of August and November 1888 six prostitutes were found murdered in London's East End.
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 [3] The economic problems were accompanied by a steady rise in social tensions. Between 1886 and 1889, frequent demonstrations, such as that of 13 November 1887, led to police intervention and further public unrest.[4] Racism, crime, social disturbance, and real deprivation fed public perceptions that Whitechapel was a notorious den of immorality.[5] .In 1888, such perceptions were strengthened when a series of vicious and grotesque murders attributed to "Jack the Ripper" received unprecedented coverage in the media.^ The newspaper attributed the notes to "Jack the Ripper."
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 ^ Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel, London, in the third quarter of 1888.
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 ^ Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
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 [6]

Murders

Main article: Whitechapel murders
Victorian map of London marked with seven dots within a few streets of each other
The sites of the first seven Whitechapel murders – Osborn Street (centre right), George Yard (centre left), Hanbury Street (top), Buck's Row (far right), Berner Street (bottom right), Mitre Square (bottom left), and Dorset Street (middle left)
.The large number of horrific attacks against women in the East End during this era adds uncertainty to how many victims were killed by the same person.^ He could just have been an evil person attacking prostitutes because they were easy targets but who hoped to start killing any women he could get his hands on.
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 ^ Jack also killed the victim and left her in the same spot, with no will to clean up his mess or hide the body.
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 ^ Plus, the true Jack the Ripper, after showing progressively increasing signs of insanity which is shown by the increasing viciousness with which he attacked and mutilated his victims, also most probably would have been at the end of his rope too right around the same time.
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 [7] .Eleven separate murders, stretching from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891, were included in a London Metropolitan Police Service investigation, and were known collectively in the police docket as the "Whitechapel murders".[8][9] Opinions vary as to whether these murders should be linked to the same culprit or not, but five of the eleven Whitechapel murders, known as the "canonical five", are widely believed to be the work of the Ripper.^ At least five women, possibly as many as 11, were victims of unsolved murders by an unknown assailant dubbed "Jack the Ripper."
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 ^ Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
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 ^ Two poverty-stricken prostitutes were murdered on the same night, less than a mile apart, in the Whitechapel district of London.
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 [10] .Most experts point to deep throat slashes, abdominal and genital-area mutilation, removal of internal organs, and progressive facial mutilations as the distinctive features of Jack the Ripper's modus operandi.^ In the White-chapel area, five women, known or presumed prostitutes, were brutally slaughtered in 10 weeks by a vicious killer dubbed “Jack the Ripper.” .
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 ^ He performed mutilations in the genital area of four of his victims- he may not have had a chance to do this with Catherine Eddowes the exception.
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 ^ The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge.
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 [11] .The first two cases in the Whitechapel murders file, those of Emma Elizabeth Smith and Martha Tabram, do not match this pattern and are non-canonical.^ Two poverty-stricken prostitutes were murdered on the same night, less than a mile apart, in the Whitechapel district of London.
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 ^ It should be noted, for example, that all the Whitechapel murders, with the exception of the murder of Elizabeth Stride at Berner Street, occurred north of Whitechapel High Street/ Whitechapel Road/ Aldgate High Street.
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 ^ This was a woman going into dark Mitre Square with a man while the cry had gone up all over Whitechapel about the murder of Elizabeth Stride.
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 [12]
.Smith was robbed and sexually assaulted on Osborn Street, Whitechapel, on 3 April 1888. A blunt object was inserted into her vagina, which ruptured her peritoneum.^ Emma Elizabeth Smith Emma was 45 years old and was attacked in Osborn Street, Whitechapel (near the other Ripper attacks) onApril 3, 1888, and a blunt object was inserted into her vagina, rupturing her perineum.
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 ^ In the summer and fall of 1888, an elusive and mysterious killer terrorized the city of London, killing prostitutes in the streets of Whitechapel, before finally disappearing into the shadowy fog of history.
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 ^ In 1888 Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel in the East End of London .
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 .She developed peritonitis, and died the following day at London Hospital.^ A John Lardy with two friends followed a strange looking man from near the London Hospital on the 18 th October who didnt like them following him.
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 [13] .She said that she had been attacked by two or three men, one of whom was a teenager.^ Later she told police at the hospital that she was attacked by two or three men, including a teenager.
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 ^ And the men investigating the murders said there had been one.
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 [14] .The attack was linked to the later murders by the press,[15] but it was almost certainly gang violence unrelated to the Ripper.^ Although it isn’t laterally about the Ripper, I’ve learned a lot about the murders and I’m fascinated abouthe/she/it(?
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 ^ It seems that the Ripper used the knife and took it away to near where he murdered Eddowes later that night to deposit it and get another.
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 ^ She fell into a coma and died on April 5, 1888.Althoug this was prbably Not a Ripper attack it does show the level of violence that was commonplace then.
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 [8][16][17]
.Tabram was killed on 7 August 1888; she had suffered 39 stab wounds.^ Martha Tabram (AKA Emma Turner) maiden name Martha White) killed on August 7, 1888 aged 38.Martha is one of the more likely Ripper victims as she had 39 stab wounds - a ferocious attack.
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 .The savagery of the murder, the lack of obvious motive, and the closeness of the location (George Yard, Whitechapel) and date to those of the later Ripper murders led police to link them.^ Mr George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, which patrolled the streets trying to capture the Ripper, got a parcel in the post containing half a human kidney.
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 ^ "This means," reported the Georgian, "that the police department and the county authorities are as far as ever from a solution to the 'Jack the Ripper' murders."
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 ^ The police needed a solution to the Ripper murders case for they had put themselves before world ridicule over their mishandling.
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 [18] .However, the attack differs from the canonical ones in that Tabram was stabbed rather than slashed at the throat and abdomen.^ Martha Tabram (AKA Emma Turner) maiden name Martha White) killed on August 7, 1888 aged 38.Martha is one of the more likely Ripper victims as she had 39 stab wounds - a ferocious attack.
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 ^ She also was attacked in the Rippers hunting ground in George Yard Buildings, George Yard, Whitechapel although he stabbed her rather than his usual slashing savageness.
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 ^ This was two women in one night showing he had no intention of mutilating them any further than cutting their throats which he had done.
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 Many experts today do not connect it with the later murders because of the difference in the wound pattern.[19]

Canonical five

.The canonical five Ripper victims are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly.^ Jack The Rippers Known Victims Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols, murdered on Bucks' Row, Friday, August 31, 1888.
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 ^ He performed mutilations in the genital area of four of his victims- he may not have had a chance to do this with Catherine Eddowes the exception.
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 ^ The graffiti at Wentworth Buildings, Goulston Street was the work of the Ripper for it was not seen until the piece of Catherine Eddowes apron appeared there.
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 Nichols' body was discovered at about 3:40 a.m. on .Friday 31 August 1888 in Buck's Row (now Durward Street), Whitechapel.^ In 1888 Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel in the East End of London .
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 ^ Look at the Whitechapel Crimes Index card to see the dates are: August 31, September 8, 30, 30 and November 9 in 1888.
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 ^ "Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area.
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 .The throat was severed deeply by two cuts, and the lower part of the abdomen was partly ripped open by a deep, jagged wound.^ Surely cutting her throat and removing her womb and opening her abdomen would have been enough.
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 ^ This was two women in one night showing he had no intention of mutilating them any further than cutting their throats which he had done.
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 Several other incisions on the abdomen were caused by the same knife.[20]
Chapman's body was discovered at about 6 a.m. on .Saturday 8 September 1888 near a doorway in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields.^ The second Ripper victim Annie Chapman was murdered on Saturday 8 th September 1888 in the yard adjoining 29 Hanbury Street .
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 ^ Annie Chapman, murdered at 29 Hanbury Street, Saturday, September 8, 1888.
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 ^ Rumours that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and media outlets and Scotland Yard received a series of extremely disturbing letters from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer.
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 .As in the case of Mary Ann Nichols, the throat was severed by two cuts.^ Mary Ann Nicholls was often known as Polly Nichols.
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 ^ He strangely took time to pull Mary Ann Nicholls clothes back down to spare her modesty.
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 ^ Some people believe the wounds were similar to ones inflicted upon Martha Tabram and Mary Ann Nichols.
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 [21] .The abdomen was slashed entirely open, and it was later discovered that the uterus had been removed.^ Surely cutting her throat and removing her womb and opening her abdomen would have been enough.
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 [22] .At the inquest, one witness described seeing Chapman with a dark-haired man of "shabby-genteel" appearance at about 5:30 a.m.^ He wrote that he interviewed one of the Mitre Square witnesses who he described as a sort of hybrid German.
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 ^ Joseph Lawende , one of the men with Joseph Levy made a statement about the appearance of the killer.
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 ^ Mrs Long saw Annie Chapman with a man at 5.30 am near the backyard where Annie was later found murdered.
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 [23]
.Stride and Eddowes were killed in the early morning of Sunday 30 September 1888. Stride's body was discovered at about 1 a.m., in Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street (now Henriques Street) in Whitechapel.^ Elizabeth Stride, murdered on Berner Street, Sunday, September 30, 1888.
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 ^ Catharine Eddowes, murdered in Mitre Square, Sunday, September 30, 1888.
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 ^ After the letter was received Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were killed on the 30 th September 1888.
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 .The cause of death was one clear-cut incision which severed the main artery on the left side of the neck.^ Catherine Eddowes had an ^ shaped incision cut on both sides of her face below her eyes.
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 ^ One mystery with Catherine Eddowes is why when her neck was cut the artery didnt make a big jet of blood (page 72, Jack the Rippers Black Magic Rituals ).
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 ^ She died reportedly from the "severance of the left carotid artery" but several minor bruises and cuts were found on the body.
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 .Uncertainty about whether Stride's murder should be attributed to the Ripper, or whether he was interrupted during the attack, stems from the absence of mutilations to the abdomen.^ Despite the murder of Elizabeth Stride which she must have heard about she still went with a client.
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 ^ If somebody had murdered Kelly and was trying to frame the Ripper why go to extremes to mutilate the woman?
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 ^ This was a woman going into dark Mitre Square with a man while the cry had gone up all over Whitechapel about the murder of Elizabeth Stride.
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 [24] .Witnesses who thought they saw Stride with a man earlier that night gave differing descriptions: some said her companion was fair, others dark; some said he was shabbily-dressed, others well-dressed.^ The witness made a report to the press that said that the other man had a knife.
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 ^ He said that the man was well dressed.
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 ^ He gave a very detailed description of a suspect despite the darkness of that night.
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 [25] .Eddowes' body was found in Mitre Square, in the City of London, three-quarters of an hour after Stride's.^ When Elizabeth Strides body was found some time before, she was found to have been soaked to the skin.
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 ^ Ten or fifteen minutes would have got him to the next crime scene, Mitre Square, where he killed Eddowes .
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 ^ When he found it necessary to do that he must have been seen at Mitre Square.
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 .The throat was severed, and the abdomen was ripped open by a long, deep, jagged wound.^ Surely cutting her throat and removing her womb and opening her abdomen would have been enough.
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 .The left kidney and the major part of the uterus had been removed.^ Major Smith of the City Police said that two inches of renal artery were left in Eddowes when her kidney was removed and the kidney portion received by Lusk still had one inch left on it as if it would fit in her body.
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 .A local man, Joseph Lawende, had passed through the square shortly before the murder with two friends, and he described seeing a fair-haired man of shabby appearance with a woman who may have been Eddowes.^ Catherine Eddowes was murdered by a man who lived in Aldgate.
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 ^ The reason was not the mans appearance but who he was.
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 ^ It was not Joseph Lawende the Jew who saw the man with Catherine Eddowes that same night minutes before her murder.
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 [26] His companions, however, were unable to confirm his description.[26] .Eddowes' and Stride's murders were later called the "double event".[27] Part of Eddowes' bloodied apron was found at the entrance to a tenement in Goulston Street, Whitechapel.^ Later that night Catherine Eddowes was found murdered.
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 ^ Just a few hours later Stride was found murdered.
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 ^ It was too dangerous to kill a second time so soon after Stride would have been found murdered.
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 .Some writing on the wall above the apron piece, which became known as the Goulston Street graffito, seemed to implicate a Jew or Jews, but it was unclear whether the graffito was written by the murderer as he dropped the apron piece, or merely incidental.^ So he decided to return to the streets with the apron piece and also write the message.
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 ^ He didnt take the piece of apron to clean his knife in Goulston Street.
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 ^ The killer probably heard that the police were on the look out for somebody that wrote the way the Goulston Street message was written.
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 [28] Police Commissioner Charles Warren feared the graffito might spark antisemitic riots, and ordered it washed away before dawn.[29]
Black and white photograph of an eviscerated human body lying on a bed. The face is mutilated.
Official police photograph of Mary Kelly's murder scene in 13 Miller's Court[8]
.Kelly's gruesomely mutilated body was discovered lying on the bed in the single room where she lived at 13 Miller's Court,[8] off Dorset Street, Spitalfields, at 10:45 a.m.^ She was killed in her room 13 Millers Court.
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 ^ At 2.55 am, PC Long discovered a piece of apron stained with blood and body matter in Goulston Street at the Wentworth Buildings where many Jews resided.
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 ^ The Mary Kelly photograph shows her lying on her bed and what remained of her face turned towards the window from which the photograph was taken.
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 on .Friday 9 November 1888. The throat had been severed down to the spine, and the abdomen virtually emptied of its organs.^ Mary Jane (Marie Jeanette) Kelly, murdered at Number 13 Miller's Court, Friday, November 9, 1888.
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 ^ The identification was some several months after the killing of Mary Kelly in November 1888.
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 The heart was missing.
.The canonical five murders were perpetrated at night, on or close to a weekend, and either at the end of a month or a week or so after.^ Between the months of August and November 1888 six prostitutes were found murdered in London's East End.
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 ^ The entire month of October and over a week of November saw no Ripper murders.
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 [30] .The mutilations became increasingly severe as the series of murders proceeded, except for that of Stride, whose attacker may have been interrupted.^ Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
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 ^ The Ripper from the descriptions did not look like a man whose health was ruined by syphilis but our suspect got physically seriously ill only after the murders.
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 ^ He had no time to mutilate Stride but may indeed have tried to cut Eddowes ears off.
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 [31] .Nichols was not missing any organs; Chapman's uterus was taken; Eddowes had her uterus and a kidney removed and her face mutilated; Kelly's body was eviscerated and her face hacked away, though only her heart was missing from the crime scene.^ Catherine Eddowes kidney was taken.
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 ^ Ten or fifteen minutes would have got him to the next crime scene, Mitre Square, where he killed Eddowes .
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 ^ The Mary Kelly photograph shows her lying on her bed and what remained of her face turned towards the window from which the photograph was taken.
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Historically, the belief that these five crimes were committed by the same man derives from contemporary documents that link them together to the exclusion of others.[32] .In 1894, Sir Melville Macnaghten, Assistant Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police Service and Head of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), wrote a report that stated: "the Whitechapel murderer had 5 victims—& 5 victims only".[33] Similarly, the canonical five victims were linked together in a letter written by the police surgeon Thomas Bond to Robert Anderson, head of the London CID, on 10 November 1888.[34] Some researchers have posited that while some of the murders were undoubtedly the work of a single killer, an unknown larger number of killers acting independently were responsible for the others.^ Did Sir Robert Anderson have the same person in mind as Macnaghten ?
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 ^ Assistant Chief Constable Macnaghten wrote in 1894 about the suspect Kosminski , .
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 ^ Sir Robert Anderson who was head of the Criminal Investigation Division of the London Metropolitan Police in 1888 declared in 1910 in Blackwoods Magazine, Part 6, that the case of Jack the Ripper had been solved back then in 1888.
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 [35] .While the police evidently treated the five murders as a single case, authors Stewart P. Evans and Donald Rumbelow argue that the canonical five is a "Ripper myth" and that while three cases (Nichols, Chapman, and Eddowes) can be definitely linked, there is less certainty over Stride and Kelly, and less again over Tabram.^ Somehow Chapman has been linked with Jack the Ripper.
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 ^ Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
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 [36] .Conversely, others suppose that the six murders between Tabram and Kelly were the work of a single killer.^ Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
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 ^ Several other names have been mentioned as possibly being the killer in the years after the murders.
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 ^ He knew other people who saw him walking behind the killer and Kelly on that fateful night could come forward and contradict him if he told any lies.
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 [11] .Dr Percy Clark, assistant to the examining pathologist George Bagster Phillips, linked only three of the murders and thought the others were perpetrated by "weak-minded individual[s] ...^ The Ripper thought of joking that he was intending to commit three murders because he thought he would have done three that night he killed Stride and Eddowes .
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 ^ George Bagster Phillips gave the following testimony at Annie Chapmans inquest: .
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 ^ Their was something on Sky News the other night about a guy confessing to a murder he commited in the 50s in the UK he was also sickly and only had a short time to live.
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 induced to emulate the crime".[37] .Macnaghten did not join the police force until the year after the murders, and his memorandum contains serious factual errors about possible suspects.^ Vance McLaughlin first heard about Atlanta's Ripper murders when he was researching a book on a serial killer in Buffalo, N.Y. McLaughlin is a former Savannah police officer, and today is a criminal justice professor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
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 ^ Nothinhg about Bundy or Dahmer was suspected until they were caught either!
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 ^ Assistant Chief Constable Macnaghten wrote in 1894 about the suspect Kosminski , .
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 [38]

Later Whitechapel murders

.Kelly is generally considered to be the Ripper's final victim, and it is assumed that the crimes ended because of the culprit's death, imprisonment, institutionalisation, or emigration.^ While Swanson and Anderson could err about where the Ripper ended up they couldnt err too much about the time of his death.
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 ^ This would have filled the room with smoke but not if he burned Kellys fat with the clothes (page 106, The Crimes of Jack the Ripper ).
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 ^ Because so many murders had occurred, and because even the police weren't sure which murders were the result of which killers, some papers called Holley's death the Ripper's seventh victim, while another called it his eighth, and another speculated it was his ninth.
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 [16] .The Whitechapel murders file does, however, detail another four murders that happened after the canonical five, those of Rose Mylett, Alice McKenzie, the Pinchin Street torso and Frances Coles.^ But we do have proof that religion murdered those five women.
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 ^ The Pinchin Street Murder This was another murder where the victim was dismembered and found on September 10, 1889.
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 ^ He used numerous aliases and disguises and was mentioned as a suspect by Macnaghten, who joined the case in 1889, the year after the "canonical five" victims were killed.He was jailed for petty offences in France during the Ripper murders.
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.Mylett was found strangled in Clarke's Yard, High Street, Poplar on 20 December 1888. As there was no sign of a struggle, the police believed that she had accidentally choked herself while in a drunken stupor, or committed suicide.^ There was no evidence of a struggle.
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 ^ She was found in Clarke's Yard, High Street, Poplar.This is a little beyond the Rippers usual haunts.
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 ^ Rose Mylett ( probably Catherine Mylett, but also known as Catherine Millett, Elizabeth "Drunken Lizzie" Davis, "Fair" Alice Downey or simply "Fair Clara") She died on December 20, 1888 aged only 26.
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 [39] Nevertheless, the inquest jury returned a verdict of murder.[39]
.McKenzie was killed on 17 July 1889 by severance of the left carotid artery.^ She died reportedly from the "severance of the left carotid artery" but several minor bruises and cuts were found on the body.
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 ^ Alice McKenzie (nicknamed "Clay Pipe" Alice) AKA Alice Bryant, She was killed on July 17, 1889 48 years old.
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 Several minor bruises and cuts were found on the body, discovered in Castle Alley, Whitechapel. .One of the examining pathologists, Thomas Bond, believed this to be a Ripper murder, though another pathologist, George Bagster Phillips, who had examined the bodies of three previous victims, disagreed.^ Another very likely Ripper victim.
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 ^ Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
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 ^ Originally there was no suspicion of murder in these cases, but Cream himself demanded an examination of the bodies, apparently an attempt to draw attention to himself.
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 [40] .Later writers are also divided between those who think that her murderer copied the Ripper's modus operandi to deflect suspicion from himself,[41] and those that ascribe it to the Ripper.^ Originally there was no suspicion of murder in these cases, but Cream himself demanded an examination of the bodies, apparently an attempt to draw attention to himself.
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 ^ The coincidence between the Ripper being called a murdering Jew due to him having being seen with a knife and the message appearing later and so soon after, indicates that the Ripper did kill both Stride and Eddowes that night.
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 ^ Although it isn’t laterally about the Ripper, I’ve learned a lot about the murders and I’m fascinated abouthe/she/it(?
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 [42]
."The Pinchin Street torso" was a headless and legless torso of an unidentified woman found under a railway arch in Pinchin Street, Whitechapel, on 10 September 1889. It seems probable that the murder was committed elsewhere and that parts of the dismembered body were dispersed for disposal.^ What was found was parts of a womans bonnet.
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 ^ Nobody would pay any attention to bloody body parts stolen from the prostitutes bodies being found in the Rippers lair if he was a butcher.
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 ^ When the two most daring murders the Ripper committed seem to be centred about the Middlesex Street area it may indicate he lived there.
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 [43]
.Coles was killed on 13 February 1891 under a railway arch at Swallow Gardens, Whitechapel.^ The body was found under a railway arch in Pinchin Street, Whitechapel.
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 ^ Her throat was cut (a Ripper speciality) after she had been thrown to the ground under a railway arch, Swallow Gardens, Whitechapel..There were no mutilations to the body.
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 ^ Aaron Kosminski was just days locked away in an asylum when the police began searching for Jack the Ripper as a result of the Frances Coles murder of 13 th February 1891.
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 .Her throat was cut but the body was not mutilated.^ Neill Cream was a poisoner, he would never embark upon the throat cutting mutilation of Jack the Ripper.
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 ^ Her throat was cut (a Ripper speciality) after she had been thrown to the ground under a railway arch, Swallow Gardens, Whitechapel..There were no mutilations to the body.
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 ^ Attacks ascribed to the Ripper typically involve women prostitutes whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations.
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 .A man named James Thomas Sadler, seen earlier with her, was arrested by the police, charged with her murder and was briefly thought to be the Ripper.^ It may have been that the Ripper got a scare with the Stride and Eddowes murder and thought he had been seen.
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 ^ The real Ripper would indeed have thought that his dodging capture and the police so far would have been a sign that God blessed his homicidal exploits.
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 ^ "This means," reported the Georgian, "that the police department and the county authorities are as far as ever from a solution to the 'Jack the Ripper' murders."
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 [44] He was, however, discharged from court due to lack of evidence on 3 March 1891.[44]

Other alleged victims

.In addition to the eleven Whitechapel murders, commentators have linked other attacks to the Ripper.^ The other victims were murdered in Whitechapel but she was murdered in Spitalfields .
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 ^ Emma Elizabeth Smith Emma was 45 years old and was attacked in Osborn Street, Whitechapel (near the other Ripper attacks) onApril 3, 1888, and a blunt object was inserted into her vagina, rupturing her perineum.
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 ^ Jack The Ripper was a terrible murderer who preyed on prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London.
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 .In one case, that of "Fairy Fay", it is unclear whether the attack was real or fabricated as a part of Ripper lore.^ NOTE: I do not agree with some of the conclusions on this site but include it as part of my website because of its correct teaching on religion and its dangers and despite its flaws the religious motivation for the Ripper murders is a real one.
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 ^ The Ripper may have carried two knives in case the opportunity to commit more than one murder would arise.
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 [45] ."Fairy Fay" was a nickname given to a victim allegedly found on 26 December 1887 "after a stake had been thrust through her abdomen",[46][47] but there were no recorded murders in Whitechapel at or around Christmas 1887.[48] "Fairy Fay" could have been created by the press through confusion of the details of the murder of Emma Elizabeth Smith with a separate non-fatal attack the previous Christmas.^ The other victims were murdered in Whitechapel but she was murdered in Spitalfields .
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 ^ Fay is possibly an invention of the press with confusing details of the murder of Emma Elizabeth Smith with a separate non-fatal attack the previous Christmas.
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 ^ Emma Elizabeth Smith Emma was 45 years old and was attacked in Osborn Street, Whitechapel (near the other Ripper attacks) onApril 3, 1888, and a blunt object was inserted into her vagina, rupturing her perineum.
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 [45] Most authors agree that "Fairy Fay" never existed.[45][49]
.Annie Millwood was admitted to Whitechapel workhouse infirmary with stab wounds in the legs and lower abdomen on 25 February 1888.[50] She was discharged but died from apparently natural causes aged 38 on 31 March 1888.[49] She was later postulated as the Ripper's first victim, but the attack cannot be linked definitely.^ She was discharged from hospital but died from apparently natural causes on March 31, 1888.
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 ^ Annie Farmer She was the victim of an attack on November 21, 1888 aged 40.
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 ^ Emma Elizabeth Smith Emma was 45 years old and was attacked in Osborn Street, Whitechapel (near the other Ripper attacks) onApril 3, 1888, and a blunt object was inserted into her vagina, rupturing her perineum.
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 [51] .Another supposed early victim was Ada Wilson,[52] who reportedly survived being stabbed twice in the neck on 28 March 1888.[53] Annie Farmer, who resided at the same lodging house as Martha Tabram,[54] reported an attack on 21 November 1888. She had a superficial cut on her throat, but it was possibly self-inflicted.^ She was reportedly strangled "by a cord drawn tightly round the neck," .Possibly self inflicted.
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 ^ The victim had bruising to her face and her throat was cut twice.
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 ^ Ada Wilson Attcked on on March 28, 1888, resulting in two stabs in the neck.
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 [55]
Drawing of three men discovering the torso of a woman
"The Whitehall Mystery" of October 1888
."The Whitehall Mystery" was a term coined for the discovery of a headless torso of a woman on 2 October 1888 in the basement of the new Metropolitan Police headquarters being built in Whitehall.^ The Whitehall Mystery Another mystery this - a headless torso of a woman was found in the basement of the new Metropolitan Police headquarters being built in Whitehall on October 2, 1888.
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 ^ The main details in the Daily News of Friday 19 th October 1888 are as follows.
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 ^ Click-hold-drop the newspaper with police office label on the pushpin on Whitehall St. Click on the new site available - police station.
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 .An arm belonging to the body was previously discovered floating in the river Thames near Pimlico, and one of the legs was subsequently discovered buried near where the torso was found.^ His body was found floating in the River Thames off Thorneycroft’s torpedo works near Chiswick on 31 December 1888.
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 ^ By the spring of 1912, the daily papers were writing about the Ripper's 20th victim, a 15-year-old "pretty octoroon" found floating in the Chattahoochee River, her throat cut, her body mutilated.
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 [56] .The other limbs and head were never recovered and the body was never identified.^ The other limbs and head were never recovered and the body never identified.
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 The mutilations were similar to those in the Pinchin Street case, where the legs and head were severed but not the arms. .The Whitehall Mystery and the Pinchin Street case may have been part of a series of murders, called the "Thames Mysteries", committed by a single serial killer, dubbed the "Torso killer".[57] Whether Jack the Ripper and the "Torso killer" were the same person or separate serial killers active in the same area is debatable.^ Jack the ripper is a large part of the experience.
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 ^ So what type of person would Jack the Ripper be?
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 ^ Was Jack the Ripper and the "Torso Killer" the same person ?
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 [57] .As the modus operandi of the Torso killer differed from that of the Ripper, police at the time discounted any connection between the two.^ Only the killer at that time knew different.
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 ^ This was very odd for many detectives and policemen at the time thought the Ripper liked to take longer gaps between murders and was still killing.
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 ^ I think he was the guy they connected with through handwriting that the Ripper left at the scene one time.
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 [58] Elizabeth Jackson, a prostitute whose various body parts were collected from the river Thames between 2 and 25 June 1889, may have been another victim of the "Torso killer".[59]
.John Gill, a seven-year-old boy was found murdered in Manningham, Bradford, on 29 December 1888. His legs had been severed, his abdomen opened, his intestines drawn out, and his heart and one ear removed.^ His body was found floating in the River Thames off Thorneycroft’s torpedo works near Chiswick on 31 December 1888.
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 ^ Surely cutting her throat and removing her womb and opening her abdomen would have been enough.
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 ^ The second Ripper victim Annie Chapman was murdered on Saturday 8 th September 1888 in the yard adjoining 29 Hanbury Street .
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 .The similarities with the murder of Mary Kelly led to press speculation that the Ripper had killed the boy.^ It is thought that Mary Kelly was not a Ripper victim for she alone of the Ripper victims was killed indoors.
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 ^ He said that the killing of Kelly had nothing to do with the Ripper.
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 ^ If the Kelly murder didnt show much skill it was because the Ripper was in a frenzy.
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 [60] The boy's employer, milkman William Barrett, was twice arrested for the murder on circumstantial evidence but was released.[60] No-one else was ever prosecuted.[60]
.Carrie Brown (nicknamed "Shakespeare", reportedly for quoting Shakespeare's sonnets) was strangled with clothing and then mutilated with a knife on 24 April 1891 in Manhattan.^ She was strangled with clothing and then mutilated with a knife.
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 ^ Carrie Brown (nicknamed "Shakespeare" reportedly for quoting William Shakespeare's sonnets) An American Girl she was born in 1835 and killed April 24, 1891, in Manhattan , New York City.
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 [61] .Her body was found with a large tear through her groin area and superficial cuts on her legs and back.^ Her body was found with a large tear through her groin area and superficial cuts on her legs and back.
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 ^ But the door was found locked and the police had to break it down after her mutilated body was seen through the hole by the man collecting the rent.
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 ^ She died reportedly from the "severance of the left carotid artery" but several minor bruises and cuts were found on the body.
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 No organs were removed from the scene, though an ovary, either purposely removed or unintentionally dislodged, was found upon the bed.[61] .At the time, the murder was compared to those in Whitechapel though the Metropolitan Police eventually ruled out any connection.^ The Ripper kept one step ahead of the police by checking out the beat times.
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 ^ It has been pointed out that Joseph Hyam Levy lived at a point near Middlesex Street probably on the boundary between the City Police and the Metropolitan jurisdictions.
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 ^ Eddowess was a daring murder for it was the one the Ripper went furtherer with in relation to mutilating the woman out doors when police were going to and from.
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Investigation

Sketch of a whiskered man in profile
Inspector Frederick Abberline, 1888
.The surviving police files on the Whitechapel murders allow a detailed view of investigative procedure in the Victorian era.^ A police suspect Michael Ostrog was free to commit more murders after the Whitechapel murders stopped and didnt while a maniac like the Ripper shouldnt be able to stop.
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 ^ Many believe he was confused by the original investigators with Nathan Kaminsky, who was found wandering the streets of Whitechapel just after the last Ripper murder.
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 ^ An investigation into a series of brutal killings in Whitechapel up to 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888, but the legend of Jack the Ripper solidified.
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 [62] A large team of policemen conducted house-to-house inquiries throughout Whitechapel. Forensic material was collected and examined. Suspects were identified, traced and either examined more closely or eliminated from the inquiry. Police work follows the same pattern today.[62] Over 2000 people were interviewed, "upwards of 300" people were investigated, and 80 people were detained.[63]
.The investigation was initially conducted by the Metropolitan Police Whitechapel (H) Division Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headed by Detective Inspector Edmund Reid.^ Sir Robert Anderson who was head of the Criminal Investigation Division of the London Metropolitan Police in 1888 declared in 1910 in Blackwoods Magazine, Part 6, that the case of Jack the Ripper had been solved back then in 1888.
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 ^ On suspects return to his brothers house in Whitechapel he was watched by police (City CID) by day & night.
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 ^ The journalist accused of writing the letter was not a Jew and nor was he prosecuted even though Sir Robert Anderson of the Criminal Investigation Division of the London Metropolitan Police said he could name the person who wrote these letters!
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 .After the murder of Nichols, Detective Inspectors Frederick Abberline, Henry Moore, and Walter Andrews were sent from Central Office at Scotland Yard to assist.^ Inspector Frederick Abberline, after interviewing Hutchinson, believed that Hutchinson's account was truthful.
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 ^ Inspector Abberline speaking at the inquest said that the murderer did not lock the door behind him with the key.
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 ^ Rumours that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and media outlets and Scotland Yard received a series of extremely disturbing letters from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer.
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 .After the Eddowes murder, which occurred within the City of London, the City Police under Detective Inspector James McWilliam were involved.^ All this caution in relation to the Kelly murder points to the possibility that he was seen with or near the previous murder victims Eddowes and Stride or was interviewed by the police or both.
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 ^ For I may say at once that undiscovered murders are rare in London, and the Jack-the-Ripper crimes are not within that category.
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 ^ Anderson wrote, For I may say at once that undiscovered murders are rare in London, and the Jack the Ripper crimes are not within that category.
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 [8] .However, overall direction of the murder enquiries was hampered by the fact that the newly appointed head of the CID, Robert Anderson, was on leave in Switzerland between 7 September and 6 October, during the time Chapman, Stride and Eddowes were killed.^ It was too dangerous to kill a second time so soon after Stride would have been found murdered.
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 ^ And between Chapman and Eddowes there is 930 yards as the crow flies.
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 ^ The Ripper cut Elizabeth Strides throat and then not long later that same night he killed Catherine Eddowes .
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 [64] .This prompted the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, to appoint Chief Inspector Donald Swanson to coordinate the enquiry from Scotland Yard.^ Chief Inspector Donald Swanson, head of the Ripper investigation, wrote in 1910 that the Ripper was identified at the Seaside Home and was returned to Whitechapel and later he went to Stepney Workhouse and then to Colney Hatch, Lunatic Asylum.
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 ^ Sir Robert Anderson was head of the Criminal Investigation Division of the London Metropolitan Police in 1888.
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 ^ Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard Investigates, Stewart P Evans and Donald Rumbelow , Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2006 .
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 [65]
Drawing of a blind-folded policeman with arms outstretched in the midst of a bunch of ragamuffin ruffians
"Blind-man's Buff": Punch cartoon by John Tenniel (22 September 1888) criticising the police's alleged incompetence. The failure of the police to capture the killer reinforced the attitude held by radicals that the police were inept and mismanaged.[66]
.Due in part to dissatisfaction with the police effort, a group of volunteer citizens in London's East End called the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee patrolled the streets looking for suspicious characters, petitioned the government to raise a reward for information about the killer, and hired private detectives to question witnesses independently.^ In 1888 Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel in the East End of London .
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 ^ One letter, received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, included half of a preserved human kidney, supposedly from one of the victims.
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 ^ The killer probably heard that the police were on the look out for somebody that wrote the way the Goulston Street message was written.
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.Butchers, slaughterers, surgeons and physicians were suspected because of the manner of the mutilations.^ A butcher was suspected of being Jack the Ripper just because he wore a leather apron.
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 .A surviving note from Major Henry Smith, Acting Commissioner of the City Police, indicates that the alibis of local butchers and slaughterers were investigated, with the result that they were eliminated from the inquiry.^ There is more, Detective Constable Robert Sagar stated, 'We [the City Police] had good reason to suspect a man who worked in Butcher's Row, Aldgate.
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 ^ The City Police watched a suspect working in Butchers Row, Aldgate.
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 ^ Major Smith of the City Police said that two inches of renal artery were left in Eddowes when her kidney was removed and the kidney portion received by Lusk still had one inch left on it as if it would fit in her body.
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 [68] .A report from Inspector Donald Swanson to the Home Office confirms that 76 butchers and slaughterers were visited, and that the inquiry encompassed all their employees for the previous six months.^ The Rippers lair was probably his own home for after the previous killings the cheap lodging houses were all searched by police.
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 ^ Chief Inspector Donald Swanson, head of the Ripper investigation, wrote in 1910 that the Ripper was identified at the Seaside Home and was returned to Whitechapel and later he went to Stepney Workhouse and then to Colney Hatch, Lunatic Asylum.
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 [69] .Some contemporary figures, including Queen Victoria, thought the pattern of the murders indicated that the culprit was a butcher or cattle drover on one of the cattle boats that plied between London and mainland Europe.^ This was very odd for many detectives and policemen at the time thought the Ripper liked to take longer gaps between murders and was still killing.
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 Whitechapel was close to the London Docks,[70] and usually such boats docked on Thursday or Friday and departed on Saturday or Sunday.[71] .The cattle boats were examined but the dates of the murders did not coincide with a single boat's movements and the transfer of a crewman between boats was also ruled out.^ The coincidence between the Ripper being called a murdering Jew due to him having being seen with a knife and the message appearing later and so soon after, indicates that the Ripper did kill both Stride and Eddowes that night.
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Criminal profiling

.At the end of October, Robert Anderson asked police surgeon Thomas Bond to give his opinion on the extent of the murderer's surgical skill and knowledge.^ Sir Robert Anderson was head of the Criminal Investigation Division of the London Metropolitan Police in 1888.
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 [73] The opinion offered by Bond on the character of the "Whitechapel murderer" is the earliest surviving offender profile.[74] .Bond's assessment was based on his own examination of the most extensively mutilated victim and the post mortem notes from the four previous canonical murders.^ He performed mutilations in the genital area of four of his victims- he may not have had a chance to do this with Catherine Eddowes the exception.
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 ^ Jack’s mental illness would have played a big part on the murder and mutilation of his victims.
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 ^ All this caution in relation to the Kelly murder points to the possibility that he was seen with or near the previous murder victims Eddowes and Stride or was interviewed by the police or both.
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 [34] He wrote:
.
All five murders no doubt were committed by the same hand.^ More recently some have expressed doubts if he committed suicide or was murdered.
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 .In the first four the throats appear to have been cut from left to right, in the last case owing to the extensive mutilation it is impossible to say in what direction the fatal cut was made, but arterial blood was found on the wall in splashes close to where the woman's head must have been lying.^ Basement - After the stairs, turn left and look close at wall cabinet.
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 ^ Cases - Go to the bookcase at the back wall of the room and look close at the 'W' shelf.
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 ^ Criminal Files - At the back wall, the cabinet right of the book case and left of table is locked.
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All the circumstances surrounding the murders lead me to form the opinion that the women must have been lying down when murdered and in every case the throat was first cut.[34]
.Bond was strongly opposed to the idea that the murderer possessed any kind of scientific or anatomical knowledge, or even "the technical knowledge of a butcher or horse slaughterer".[34] In his opinion the killer must have been a man of solitary habits, subject to "periodical attacks of homicidal and erotic mania", with the character of the mutilations possibly indicating "satyriasis".[34] Bond also stated that "the homicidal impulse may have developed from a revengeful or brooding condition of the mind, or that religious mania may have been the original disease but I do not think either hypothesis is likely".[34] While there is no evidence of any sexual activity with any the victims,[11][75] psychologists suppose that the penetration of the victims with a knife and "leaving them on display in sexually degrading positions with the wounds exposed" indicates that the perpetrator derived sexual pleasure from the attacks.^ Not likely there are indications that she trusted her killer.
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 ^ There is no evidence that the Ripper got any sexual enjoyment out of doing this.
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 ^ Possibly the police were acting unprofessionally but there is no reason to think this.
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 [11][76] .This view is challenged by others who dismiss such hypotheses as insupportable supposition.^ The view that the daring rascal impression could only have been created by someone other than the killer who would have been outraged at being seen that way is wrong.
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 ^ The identification must have taken place after the killing of other women who were thought to be victims of the Ripper such as Frances Coles and Alice McKenzie.
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 [77] .Comparisons with the motives and actions of modern-day serial killers have led to suggestions that the Ripper could have been a deranged schizophrenic, like the "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, who claimed to hear voices instructing him to attack prostitutes.^ We have a Ripper letter which shows that the killer was outraged at the thought that he killed a woman who may not have been a whore and shows the signs of a guilty conscience.
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 ^ When they brought him to the mental hospital nearby, he would tear off whatever clothing they gave him and attacked anyone who got near him.
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 ^ If the Ripper didnt write the message, then someone who saw him plant the apron piece there did.
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Suspects

Main article: Jack the Ripper suspects
Cartoon of a man holding a bloody knife looking contemptuously at a display of half-a-dozen supposed and dissimilar likenesses
Speculation as to the identity of Jack the Ripper: cover of the 21 September 1889, issue of Puck magazine, by cartoonist Tom Merry
.The concentration of the killings at the weekend, and within a few streets of each other, has indicated to many that the Ripper was employed during the week and lived locally.^ When the two most daring murders the Ripper committed seem to be centred about the Middlesex Street area it may indicate he lived there.
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 ^ The Ripper only killed at weekends and didnt seem to be able to slaughter whenever he wanted.
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 ^ This was the ideal street for being the Rippers lair and there are many indications that it was indeed his lair.
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 [79] .Others have thought the killer was an educated upper-class man, possibly a doctor, who ventured into Whitechapel from a more well-to-do area;[80] such notions draw on cultural perceptions such as fear of the medical profession, distrust of modern science or the exploitation of the poor by the rich.^ We have a Ripper letter which shows that the killer was outraged at the thought that he killed a woman who may not have been a whore and shows the signs of a guilty conscience.
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 ^ Swanson speaks as if the identification put the killer off committing any more murders which fits his saying the killer was sent back to Whitechapel.
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 ^ He knew other people who saw him walking behind the killer and Kelly on that fateful night could come forward and contradict him if he told any lies.
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 [81] .Author Stephen Knight promoted an elaborate Masonic conspiracy theory involving the upper-class and a doctor in his 1976 book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution, but many authors dismiss the theory as a fantasy.^ He was named as the Ripper as part of the evolution of the masonic/royal conspiracy theory.
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 ^ A Royal Plot – This theory was by author Stephen Knight who talked to some grandson who said that his painter dad knew of a Royal duke who had a baby by a prostitute(who posed for the painter).
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 ^ You read in the book Jack the Rippers Black Magic Rituals that Ivor Edwards the author believes that Chapman was seemingly cut up in less than two minutes.
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 [82] .Suspects proposed years after the murders include virtually anyone remotely connected to the case by contemporary documents, as well as many famous names, who were never considered in the police investigation.^ Kominsky has been often confused by a couple other obscure names in the Ripper suspect list over the years – that of Nathan Kaminsky and one David Cohen.
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 ^ The only indisputable fact about the case is that, unless a manuscript is suddenly or finally found , documented to one of the original case investigators, we’ll never know Jacks identity.
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 ^ This list looks at 10 of the most interesting suspects – some considered by the police at the time, and others recently suggested.
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 .As everyone alive at the time is now dead, modern authors are free to accuse anyone, "without any need for any supporting historical evidence".[56] Suspects named in contemporary police documents include three in Sir Melville Macnaghten's 1894 memorandum, but the evidence against them is circumstantial at best.^ This list looks at 10 of the most interesting suspects – some considered by the police at the time, and others recently suggested.
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 ^ I think one future book author investigating Jack the Ripper will put the names of the entire population of England in 1888 in a book and go – ‘heres the suspects’.
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 ^ Assistant Chief Constable Macnaghten wrote in 1894 about the suspect Kosminski , .
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.Despite the many and varied theories about the identity and profession of Jack the Ripper, authorities are not agreed on a single solution and the number of named suspects reaches over one hundred.^ He was suspected of being Jack the Ripper.
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 ^ Kominsky has been often confused by a couple other obscure names in the Ripper suspect list over the years – that of Nathan Kaminsky and one David Cohen.
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 ^ Jack the Ripper and Jacob Levy were one and the same.
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Letters

.Over the course of the Ripper murders, the police, newspapers and others received many hundreds of letters regarding the case.^ A newspaper in Whitechapel received a letter in October 1888 claiming to be from the Ripper.
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 ^ The Ripper was capable of writing letters to the police to taunt them.
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 ^ The police needed a solution to the Ripper murders case for they had put themselves before world ridicule over their mishandling.
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 [86] Some were well-intentioned offers of advice for catching the killer but the vast majority were useless.[87]
Hundreds of letters claimed to have been written by the killer himself,[88] and three of these in particular are prominent: the "Dear Boss" letter, the "Saucy Jacky" postcard and the "From Hell" letter.[89]
.The "Dear Boss" letter, dated 25 September, was postmarked 27 September 1888. It was received that day by the Central News Agency, and was forwarded to Scotland Yard on 29 September.^ Look at the Whitechapel Crimes Index card to see the dates are: August 31, September 8, 30, 30 and November 9 in 1888.
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 [90] Initially it was considered a hoax, but when Eddowes was found three days after the letter's postmark with one ear partially cut off, the letter's promise to "clip the ladys (sic) ears off" gained attention.[91] However, Eddowes' ear appears to have been nicked by the killer incidentally during his attack, and the letter writer's threat to send the ears to the police was never carried out.[92] .The name "Jack the Ripper" was first used in this letter by the signatory and gained worldwide notoriety after its publication.^ The letter writer says that Jack the Ripper is his trade name.
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 ^ Look and take Jack the Ripper letter 1.
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 ^ Click it on the Jack the Ripper letter on the luminous board.
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 [93] Most of the letters that followed copied this letter's tone.[94] .Some sources list another letter, dated 17 September 1888, as the first to use the name of Jack the Ripper, but most experts believe this was a modern fake inserted into police records in the 20th century, long after the killings took place.^ The letter writer says that Jack the Ripper is his trade name.
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 ^ Look and take Jack the Ripper letter 1.
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 ^ A letter by R Hull dated 8 th October 1888 stated that as a man who worked as a butcher, R Hull, was sure that there was nothing done to yet to any of these poor women than an expert butcher could not do almost in the dark.
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 [95]
Scrawled and misspelled note reading: From hell—Mr Lusk—Sir I send you half the kidne I took from one woman prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer—Signed Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk
The "From Hell" letter
.The "Saucy Jacky" postcard was postmarked 1 October 1888 and received the same day by the Central News Agency.^ Referring to the previous letter the Central News Agency received the following which became known as the Saucy Jacky postcard.
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 ^ The main details in the Daily News of Friday 19 th October 1888 are as follows.
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 ^ The Central News Agency got a letter on the 5 th October that was found to be written by the same person as the writer of the previous letters (page 98, The Lodger ).
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 .The handwriting was similar to the "Dear Boss" letter.^ If not then the Ripper did write the Dear Boss letter of October 5 th in which he claimed a religious motivation for the murders.
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 [96] .It mentions that two victims were killed very close to one another: "double event this time", which was thought to refer to the murders of Stride and Eddowes.^ It may have been that the Ripper got a scare with the Stride and Eddowes murder and thought he had been seen.
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 ^ It was posted only two days before the murder of Stride and Eddowes .
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 ^ The closeness in time and place of the two killings strongly indicates the work of the one man.
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 [97] .It has been argued that the letter was mailed before the murders were publicised, making it unlikely that a crank would have such knowledge of the crime,[98] but it was postmarked more than 24 hours after the killings took place, long after details were known by journalists and residents of the area.^ If the killer was identified before he was put in an asylum then the identification took place between March 1890 and August 1890, when Levy was committed.
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 ^ The murderer had waited a long time before striking Kelly.
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 ^ Ten or fifteen minutes would have got him to the next crime scene, Mitre Square, where he killed Eddowes .
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 [97]
.The "From Hell" letter was received by George Lusk, leader of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, on 16 October 1888. The handwriting and style is unlike that of the "Dear Boss" letter and postcard.^ The letter of 5 th October 1888 .
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 ^ A newspaper in Whitechapel received a letter in October 1888 claiming to be from the Ripper.
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 ^ Middlesex Street is not in Spitalfields but in Whitechapel but Spitalfields would still have got to him and he would have received letters in the past addressed to him using Spitalfields not Whitechapel.
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 [99] .The letter came with a small box in which Lusk discovered half of a kidney, preserved in "spirits of wine" (ethanol).^ Mr George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, which patrolled the streets trying to capture the Ripper, got a parcel in the post containing half a human kidney.
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 ^ The letter sought to give the impression that the kidney came from Catherine Eddowes .
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 [99] .Eddowes' left kidney had been removed by the killer.^ And we know the killer worked fast when he slashed Eddowes for the policeman was approaching and left himself very little time to get away.
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 ^ Major Smith of the City Police said that two inches of renal artery were left in Eddowes when her kidney was removed and the kidney portion received by Lusk still had one inch left on it as if it would fit in her body.
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 ^ The left kidney and the womb were taken away by the killer.
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 The writer claimed that he "fried and ate" the missing kidney half. There is disagreement over the kidney: some contend it belonged to Eddowes, while others argue it was nothing more than a macabre practical joke.[8][100] .The kidney was examined by Dr Thomas Openshaw of the London Hospital, who determined that it was human and from the left side, but (contrary to false newspaper reports) he could not determine its gender or age.^ Dr Openshaw stated that the kidney belonged to a woman of Catherine Eddowes age and was in a similar diseased state to the remaining kidney.
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 ^ A John Lardy with two friends followed a strange looking man from near the London Hospital on the 18 th October who didnt like them following him.
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 [101] .Openshaw subsequently also received a letter signed "Jack the Ripper".^ Look and take Jack the Ripper letter 1.
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 ^ We have a Ripper letter which shows that the killer was outraged at the thought that he killed a woman who may not have been a whore and shows the signs of a guilty conscience.
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 ^ Click it on the Jack the Ripper letter on the luminous board.
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 [102]
.Scotland Yard published facsimiles of the "Dear Boss" letter and the postcard on 3 October, in the ultimately vain hope that someone would recognise the handwriting.^ Why was Hutchinson giving her money when he had no regular job as the Scotland Yard letter of 12 th November 1888 states?
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 ^ This letter was determined to have been originated by the same person as who wrote the postcard on October 1 st saying he had no time to get the ears cut off to post to the police.
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 ^ If not then the Ripper did write the Dear Boss letter of October 5 th in which he claimed a religious motivation for the murders.
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 [103] In a letter to Godfrey Lushington, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, Charles Warren explained "I think the whole thing a hoax but of course we are bound to try & ascertain the writer in any case."[104] On 7 October 1888, George R. Sims in the Sunday newspaper Referee implied scathingly that the letter was written by a journalist "to hurl the circulation of a newspaper sky high".[105] Police officials later claimed to have identified a specific journalist as the author of both the "Dear Boss" letter and the postcard.[106] .The journalist was identified as Tom Bullen in a letter from Chief Inspector John George Littlechild to George R. Sims dated 23 September 1913.[107] A journalist called Fred Best reportedly confessed in 1931 that he had written the letters to "keep the business alive".[108] In 2009 Kelvin McKenzie, a retired newspaper editor, subjected the "Dear Boss" letter to handwriting analysis from graphologist Elaine Quigley.^ John George Littlechild said it was believed to have been written by Tom Bullen a journalist with the Central News.
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 ^ If not then the Ripper did write the Dear Boss letter of October 5 th in which he claimed a religious motivation for the murders.
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 ^ Dear Boss, I keep on hearing [should be I keep hearing that] the police have caught me but they wont [wont] fix [catch me fix me is popular speech] me just yet.
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 She demonstrated, by placing a transparent copy of a known sample of Best's handwriting over the letter, that he was almost certainly the author. .From the deliberate way in which the letter had been written, she deduced that Best was writing to instruction: a theory that allowed McKenzie to speculate that T. P. O'Connor, Best's editor, was complicit in order to increase the circulation of his paper, The Star.^ The letter was not written to the police or the papers to keep the papers and the world blazing with speculation and to create a big sensation.
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Media

Ghastly murder in the East End. Dreadful mutilation of a woman. Capture: Leather Apron
Newspaper broadsheet referring to the killer as "Leather Apron", September 1888
.The Ripper murders mark an important watershed in the treatment of crime by journalists.^ For I may say at once that undiscovered murders are rare in London, and the Jack-the-Ripper crimes are not within that category.
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 ^ Anderson wrote, For I may say at once that undiscovered murders are rare in London, and the Jack the Ripper crimes are not within that category.
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 ^ If Joe Barnett was the Ripper or at least the killer of Mary Kelly it would have been a crime of passion for he lived a normal life after her murder.
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 [16][110] .While not the first serial killer, Jack the Ripper's case was the first to create a worldwide media frenzy.^ But they did hold their belief that the killer had enough skill with the knife to pass for a butcher or medical student (page 190, The Crimes of Jack the Ripper ).
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 ^ Nevertheless it is certain that the killer or somebody had a key and locked the room (page 64, The Complete Jack the Ripper ).
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 ^ This letter was signed Jack the Ripper leading the world to use this nickname for the uncaught killer who stalked the streets of the East End.
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 [16][110] Tax reforms in the 1850s had enabled the publication of inexpensive newspapers with wider circulation.[111] .These mushroomed later in the Victorian era to include mass-circulation newspapers as cheap as a halfpenny, along with popular magazines such as the Illustrated Police News, which made the Ripper the beneficiary of previously unparalleled publicity.^ The Rippers lair was probably his own home for after the previous killings the cheap lodging houses were all searched by police.
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 ^ Mary Kelly was left as a heap of cold meat and put on display by the Ripper and the police for she had to be identified with difficulty and was left to be found by the public.
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 [112]
.After the murder of Nichols in early September, the Manchester Guardian reported that: "Whatever information may be in the possession of the police they deem it necessary to keep secret ...^ The police needed a solution to the Ripper murders case for they had put themselves before world ridicule over their mishandling.
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 ^ I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they wont fix me just yet.
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 ^ It should be I keep hearing that the police have caught me but they wont catch me just yet.
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 It is believed their attention is particularly directed to ... a notorious character known as .'Leather Apron'."[113] Journalists were frustrated by the unwillingness of the CID to reveal details of their investigation to the public, and so resorted to writing reports of questionable veracity.^ A journalist would have wanted people to believe the Leather Apron thing.
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 [16][114] .Imaginative descriptions of "Leather Apron" appeared in the press,[115] but rival journalists dismissed these as "a mythical outgrowth of the reporter's fancy".[116] John Pizer, a local Jew who made footwear from leather, was known by the name "Leather Apron"[117] and was arrested, even though the investigating inspector reported that "at present there is no evidence whatsoever against him".[118] He was soon released after the confirmation of his alibis.^ This is slander when there is no evidence or proof.
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 ^ And there is no reason for the Ripper to then think that Jews were protecting him.
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 ^ There was no evidence of a struggle.
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 [117]
.After the publication of the "Dear Boss" letter, "Jack the Ripper" supplanted "Leather Apron" as the name adopted by the press and public to describe the killer.^ The Ripper at that time was nicknamed Leather Apron.
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 ^ The letter writer says that Jack the Ripper is his trade name.
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 ^ Look and take Jack the Ripper letter 1.
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 [119] .Later, the killer was also referred to as "Red Jack".[120] The name "Jack" was already used to describe another fabled London attacker: "Spring-Heeled Jack", who supposedly leapt over walls to strike at his victims and escape as quickly as he came.^ It seems that the Ripper used the knife and took it away to near where he murdered Eddowes later that night to deposit it and get another.
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 ^ Another newspaper claimed that Catherine Eddowes had used a shed at 26 Dorset Street to sleep in (page 190, Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard Investigates ).
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 ^ This letter was signed Jack the Ripper leading the world to use this nickname for the uncaught killer who stalked the streets of the East End.
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 [121] The invention and adoption of a nickname for a particular killer became standard media practice with examples such as the Axeman of New Orleans, the Boston Strangler, and the Beltway Sniper. Examples derived from Jack the Ripper include the French Ripper, the Düsseldorf Ripper, the Camden Ripper, Jack the Stripper, the Yorkshire Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper. .Sensational press reports, combined with the fact that no one was ever convicted of the murders, has confused scholarly analysis and created a legend that casts a shadow over later serial killers.^ The killer killed Kelly and there were no more murders.
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 ^ There can be no doubt that the first known serial killer of modern times, Jack the Ripper, was driven by religion to commit his crimes.
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 ^ There can be no doubt that the killer took a piece of Eddowes apron intending to use it later to leave a false trail away from his lair.
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Legacy

A phantom brandishing a knife floats through a slum street
The 'Nemesis of Neglect': Jack the Ripper depicted as a phantom stalking Whitechapel, and as an embodiment of social neglect, in a 'Punch' cartoon of 1888
.The nature of the murders and of the victims drew attention to the poor living conditions in the East End,[123] and galvanised public opinion against the overcrowded, unsanitary slums.^ In 1888, the most infamous murders of all time took place in London s East End .
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 [124] .In the two decades after the murders, the worst of the slums were cleared and demolished,[125] but the streets and some buildings survive and the legend of the Ripper is still promoted by guided tours of the murder sites.^ When the two most daring murders the Ripper committed seem to be centred about the Middlesex Street area it may indicate he lived there.
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 ^ The graffiti at Wentworth Buildings, Goulston Street was the work of the Ripper for it was not seen until the piece of Catherine Eddowes apron appeared there.
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 ^ He wasnt put away until two years had passed since the last Ripper murder.
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 [126] The Ten Bells public house in Commercial Street was frequented by at least one of the victims and was the focus of such tours for many years.[127]
.In addition to the contradictions and unreliability of contemporary accounts, attempts to identify the real killer are hampered by the lack of surviving forensic evidence.^ Anderson wrote in 1910 that the only person who got a good look at the killer identified the suspect without hesitation but wouldnt give evidence against him.
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 [128] DNA analysis on extant letters is inconclusive;[129] the available material has been handled many times and is too contaminated to provide meaningful results.[130] .To date more than 100 non-fiction works deal exclusively with the Jack the Ripper murders, making it one of the most written-about true-crime subjects.^ So it stands to reason that the Ripper may have had more than one name too.
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 ^ It is said that the Ripper intended to make her murder look like a robbery which was why he did this.
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 ^ This would have filled the room with smoke but not if he burned Kellys fat with the clothes (page 106, The Crimes of Jack the Ripper ).
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 [84] The term "ripperology" was coined by Colin Wilson in the 1970s to describe the study of the case by professionals and amateurs.[131][132] The periodicals Ripperana, Ripperologist and Ripper Notes publish their research.[133]
.Jack the Ripper features in hundreds of works of fiction and works which straddle the boundaries between both fact and fiction, including the Ripper letters and a hoax Diary of Jack the Ripper.^ Look and take Jack the Ripper letter 1.
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 ^ Click it on the Jack the Ripper letter on the luminous board.
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 ^ The letter writer says that Jack the Ripper is his trade name.
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 [134] .The Ripper appears in novels, short stories, poems, comic books, games, songs, plays, films, and the 1930s opera Lulu by Alban Berg.^ The Ripper did indeed play funny little games as the letter writer says.
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.In the immediate aftermath of the murders, and later, "Jack the Ripper became the children's bogey man."^ This other man was probably Jack the Ripper.
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 ^ It seems that the Ripper used the knife and took it away to near where he murdered Eddowes later that night to deposit it and get another.
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 ^ The Central News Agency on September 27th, 1888 received a letter claiming to be from the murderer and calling himself Jack the Ripper.
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 [135] Depictions were often phantasmic or monstrous. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was depicted in film dressed in everyday clothes as a man with a hidden secret preying on his unsuspecting victims; atmosphere and evil were suggested through lighting effects and shadowplay.[136] .By the 1960s, the Ripper had become "the symbol of a predatory aristocracy",[136] and was portrayed in a top hat dressed as a gentleman.^ The Rippers wardrobe ranged from shabby gentlemans clothes to being well-dressed.
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 The Establishment as a whole became the villain with the Ripper acting as a manifestation of upper-class exploitation.[137] .The image of the Ripper merged with or borrowed symbols from horror stories, such as Dracula's cloak or Victor Frankenstein's organ harvest.^ The man didnt fit the image of a killer such as the Ripper who people pictured as a dirty, dishevelled, maniacal and ugly monster.
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 [138] The fictional world of the Ripper can fuse with multiple genres, ranging from Sherlock Holmes to Japanese erotic horror.[139]
Unlike murderers of lesser fame, there is no waxwork figure of Jack the Ripper at Madame Tussauds' Chamber of Horrors, in accordance with their policy of not modelling persons whose likeness is unknown.[140] He is instead depicted as a shadow.[141] .In 2006, Jack the Ripper was selected by BBC History magazine and its readers as the worst Briton in history.^ The Crimes of Jack the Ripper, Paul Roland, Arcturus Foulsham , 2006 .
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 ^ Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard Investigates, Stewart P Evans and Donald Rumbelow , Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2006 .
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See also

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Notes

  1. ^ Kershen, Anne J., "The Immigrant Community of Whitechapel at the Time of the Jack the Ripper Murders", in Werner, pp. 65–97; Vaughan, Laura, "Mapping the East End Labyrinth", in Werner, p. 225
  2. ^ Life and Labour of the People in London (London: Macmillan, 1902–1903) (The Charles Booth on-line archive) retrieved 5 August 2008
  3. ^ Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, p. 1; Police report dated 25 October 1888, MEPO 3/141 ff. 158–163, quoted in Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 283; Rumbelow, p. 12
  4. ^ Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, pp. 131–149; Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 38–42; Rumbelow, pp. 21–22
  5. ^ Marriott, John, "The Imaginative Geography of the Whitechapel murders", in Werner, pp. 31–63
  6. ^ Haggard, Robert F. (1993), "Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London", Essays in History, vol. 35, Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia
  7. ^ Woods and Baddeley, p. 20
  8. ^ a b c d e f The Enduring Mystery of Jack the Ripper, London Metropolitan Police, http://www.met.police.uk/history/ripper.htm, retrieved 31 January 2010 
  9. ^ Cook, pp. 33–34; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 3
  10. ^ Cook, p. 151
  11. ^ a b c d Keppel, Robert D.; Weis, Joseph G.; Brown, Katherine M.; Welch, Kristen (2005), "The Jack the Ripper Murders: A Modus Operandi and Signature Analysis of the 1888–1891 Whitechapel Murders", Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, vol. 2, pp. 1–21
  12. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 47–55
  13. ^ Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, pp. 27–28; Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 47–50; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 4–7
  14. ^ Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, p. 28; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 4–7
  15. ^ e.g. The Star, 8 September 1888, quoted in Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, pp. 155–156 and Cook, p. 62
  16. ^ a b c d e Davenport-Hines, Richard (2004). "Jack the Ripper (fl. 1888)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Subscription required for online version.
  17. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, p. 49
  18. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 51–55
  19. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 51–55; Marriott, p. 13
  20. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 60–61; Rumbelow, pp. 24–27
  21. ^ Rumbelow, p. 42
  22. ^ Marriott, pp. 26–29; Rumbelow, p. 42
  23. ^ Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, p. 153; Cook, p. 163; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 98; Marriott, pp. 59–75
  24. ^ Cook, p. 157; Marriott, pp. 81–125
  25. ^ Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, pp. 176–184
  26. ^ a b Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, pp. 193–194; Chief Inspector Swanson's report, 6 November 1888, HO 144/221/A49301C, quoted in Evans and Skinner, pp. 185–188
  27. ^ e.g. Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, p. 30; Rumbelow, p. 118
  28. ^ Cook, p. 143; Sugden, p. 254
  29. ^ Letter from Charles Warren to Godfrey Lushington, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 6 November 1888, HO 144/221/A49301C, quoted in Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 183–184
  30. ^ e.g. Daily Telegraph, 10 November 1888, quoted in Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 339–340
  31. ^ Macnaghten's notes quoted by Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 584–587
  32. ^ Cook, p. 151; Woods and Baddeley, p. 85
  33. ^ Macnaghten's notes quoted by Cook, p. 151; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 584–587 and Rumbelow, p. 140
  34. ^ a b c d e f Letter from Thomas Bond to Robert Anderson, 10 November 1888, HO 144/221/A49301C, quoted in Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 360–362 and Rumbelow, pp. 145–147
  35. ^ e.g. Cook, pp. 156–159, 199
  36. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, p. 260
  37. ^ Interview in the East London Observer, 14 May 1910, quoted in Cook, pp. 179–180 and Evans and Rumbelow, p. 239
  38. ^ Marriott, pp. 231–234; Rumbelow, p. 157
  39. ^ a b Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 245–246; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 422–439
  40. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 208–209; Rumbelow, p. 131
  41. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, p. 209
  42. ^ Marriott, p. 195
  43. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, p. 210; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 480–515
  44. ^ a b Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 218–222; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 551–568
  45. ^ a b c Evans, Stewart P.; Connell, Nicholas (2000). The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper. ISBN 1902791053
  46. ^ Fido, Martin (1993), The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper, New York: Barnes and Noble, ISBN 9781566195379, p. 15
  47. ^ The name "Fairy Fay" was first used by Terrence Robinson in Reynold's News, 29 October 1950, "for want of a better name".
  48. ^ Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 3
  49. ^ a b Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Facts, pp. 21–25
  50. ^ The Eastern Post and City Chronicle, 7 April 1888
  51. ^ Beadle, William (2009), Jack the Ripper: Unmasked, London: John Blake, ISBN 9781844546886, p. 75
  52. ^ Beadle, p. 77
  53. ^ e.g. East London Advertiser, 31 March 1888
  54. ^ Beadle, p. 207
  55. ^ Beadle, p. 207; Evans and Rumbelow, p. 202
  56. ^ a b Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 142–144
  57. ^ a b Gordon, R. Michael (2002), The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, ISBN 9780786413485
  58. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 210–213
  59. ^ Gordon, R. Michael (2003), The American Murders of Jack the Ripper, Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing, ISBN 9780275981556, pp. xxii, 190
  60. ^ a b c Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, p. 136
  61. ^ a b c Vanderlinden, Wolf (2003–04). "The New York Affair", in Ripper Notes part one #16 (July 2003); part two #17 (January 2004), part three #19 (July 2004 ISBN 0975912909)
  62. ^ a b Canter, David (1994), Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer, London: HarperCollins, pp. 12–13, ISBN 0002552159
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  64. ^ Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 675
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  66. ^ Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, p. 57
  67. ^ e.g. Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 245–252
  68. ^ Rumbelow, p. 274
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  71. ^ Rumbelow, p. 93; Daily Telegraph, 10 November 1888, quoted in Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 341
  72. ^ Robert Anderson to Home Office, 10 January 1889, 144/221/A49301C ff. 235–6, quoted in Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 399
  73. ^ Evans and Rumbelow, pp. 186–187; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 359–360
  74. ^ Canter, pp. 5–6
  75. ^ Woods and Baddeley, p. 38
  76. ^ See also later contemporary editions of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis, quoted in Woods and Baddeley, p. 111
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  78. ^ Marriott, p. 204
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  87. ^ Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, p. 165; Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, p. 105; Rumbelow, pp. 105–116
  88. ^ Over 200 are preserved at the Public Record Office (Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, pp. 8, 180).
  89. ^ Marriott, pp. 219 ff.
  90. ^ Cook, pp. 76–77; Evans and Rumbelow, p. 137; Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, pp. 16–18; Woods and Baddeley, pp. 48–49
  91. ^ Cook, pp. 78–79; Marriott, p. 221
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  93. ^ Cook, pp. 77–78; Evans and Rumbelow, p. 140; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 193
  94. ^ Cook, p. 87; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 652
  95. ^ Marriott, p. 223
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  101. ^ Cook, p. 146
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  104. ^ Letter from Charles Warren to Godfrey Lushington, 10 October 1888, Metropolitan Police Archive MEPO 1/48, quoted in Cook, p. 78; Evans and Rumbelow, p. 140 and Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, p. 43
  105. ^ Quoted in Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, pp. 41, 52 and Woods and Baddeley, p. 54
  106. ^ Cook, pp. 94–95; Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters From Hell, pp. 45–48; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 624–633; Marriott, pp. 219–222; Rumbelow, pp. 121–122
  107. ^ Quoted in Cook, pp. 96–97; Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, p. 49; Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 193; and Marriott, p. 254
  108. ^ Professor Francis E. Camps, August 1966, "More on Jack the Ripper", Crime and Detection, quoted in Evans and Skinner, Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell, pp. 51–52
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  112. ^ Curtis, L. Perry, Jr. (2001). Jack the Ripper and the London Press. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300088728
  113. ^ Manchester Guardian, 6 September 1888, quoted in Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, p. 98
  114. ^ Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, p. 214
  115. ^ e.g. Manchester Guardian, 10 September 1888, and Austin Statesman, 5 September 1888, quoted in Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, pp. 98–99; The Star, 5 September 1888, quoted in Evans and Rumbelow, p. 80
  116. ^ Leytonstone Express and Independent, 8 September 1888, quoted in Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, p. 99
  117. ^ a b e.g. Marriott, p. 251; Rumbelow, p. 49
  118. ^ Report by Inspector Joseph Helson, CID 'J' Division, in the Metropolitan Police archive, MEPO 3/140 ff. 235–8, quoted in Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, p. 99 and Evans and Skinner, The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, p. 24
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  122. ^ Marriott, John, "The Imaginative Geography of the Whitechapel murders", in Werner, p. 54
  123. ^ Begg, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History, pp. 1–2; Rivett and Whitehead, p. 15
  124. ^ Cook, pp. 139–141; Vaughan, Laura, "Mapping the East End Labyrinth", in Werner, pp. 236–237
  125. ^ Dennis, Richard, "Common Lodgings and 'Furnished Rooms': Housing in 1880s Whitechapel", in Werner, pp. 177–179
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  128. ^ Cook, p. 31
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  135. ^ Dew, Walter (1938). I Caught Crippen. London: Blackie and Son. p. 126, quoted in Begg, p. 198
  136. ^ a b Bloom, Clive, "Jack the Ripper – A Legacy in Pictures", in Werner, p. 251
  137. ^ Woods and Baddeley, p. 150
  138. ^ Bloom, Clive, "Jack the Ripper – A Legacy in Pictures", in Werner, pp. 252–253
  139. ^ Bloom, Clive, "Jack the Ripper – A Legacy in Pictures", in Werner, pp. 255–260
  140. ^ Chapman, Pauline (1984). Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors. London: Constable. p. 96
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  • Begg, Paul (2006). .Jack the Ripper: The Facts.^ The Complete Jack the Ripper discusses the argument given in Robert Odells Jack the Ripper in Fact and Fiction that the murderer was a Jewish ritual slaughterman or a shochet (pages 156-163).
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     ^ It has been down to the fact that the only Kosminksi that went into an asylum was an Aaron Kosminski that led to the theory that Aaron Kosminski was Jack the Ripper.
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     Anova Books. ISBN 1861056877
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     ^ For I may say at once that undiscovered murders are rare in London, and the Jack-the-Ripper crimes are not within that category.
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     ^ Anderson wrote, For I may say at once that undiscovered murders are rare in London, and the Jack the Ripper crimes are not within that category.
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     .Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates.^ Another newspaper claimed that Catherine Eddowes had used a shed at 26 Dorset Street to sleep in (page 190, Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard Investigates ).
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     ^ Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard Investigates, Stewart P Evans and Donald Rumbelow , Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2006 .
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     ^ Also Kelly and Chapman lived on the same street Dorset Street (page 189, Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard Investigates ).
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     ISBN 0750942282
  • Evans, Stewart P.; Skinner, Keith (2000). The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. London: Constable and Robinson. ISBN 1841192252
  • Evans, Stewart P.; Skinner, Keith (2001). .Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell.^ The letter writer says that Jack the Ripper is his trade name.
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     ^ The Central News Agency on September 27th, 1888 received a letter claiming to be from the murderer and calling himself Jack the Ripper.
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     ^ This letter was signed Jack the Ripper leading the world to use this nickname for the uncaught killer who stalked the streets of the East End.
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     ISBN 0750925493
  • Marriott, Trevor (2005). .Jack the Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation.^ Another newspaper claimed that Catherine Eddowes had used a shed at 26 Dorset Street to sleep in (page 190, Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard Investigates ).
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     ^ Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard Investigates, Stewart P Evans and Donald Rumbelow , Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2006 .
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     ^ Also Kelly and Chapman lived on the same street Dorset Street (page 189, Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard Investigates ).
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     .London: John Blake.^ Jack the Rippers Black Magic Rituals, Ivor Edwards, John Blake, London, 2003 .
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     ^ For I may say at once that undiscovered murders are rare in London, and the Jack-the-Ripper crimes are not within that category.
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     ^ But these men according to The Complete Jack the Ripper had much the same expertise as a trained butcher.
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     ^ Mary Kelly plied her trade as a prostitute at Aldgate (page 70, The Complete Jack the Ripper ).
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     Fully Revised and Updated    . Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140173956
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     ^ But these men according to The Complete Jack the Ripper had much the same expertise as a trained butcher.
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     ^ Mary Kelly plied her trade as a prostitute at Aldgate (page 70, The Complete Jack the Ripper ).
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[[File:|thumb|An illustration showing Jack the Ripper from a newspaper of the time.]] Jack the Ripper is the name given to a serial killer, or a group of serial killers. He was active during the summer and autumn of 1888 in the Whitechapel district of London, England, which was known for its overpopulation and prostitution.

The main victims thought to be killed by the same man were five prostitutes:

Newspapers and police in London around this time started to get taunting letters. The letters were signed "Jack the Ripper". Other murders were reported around the same time but were not believed to be the work of Jack the Ripper.

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Who was Jack the Ripper?

Nobody knows who Jack the Ripper really was. Some think he might have been a doctor or a butcher because of how he killed and cut up the women, much like how a surgeon might perform surgery, or how a butcher might dissect an animal. All the murders happened on weekends, so it could have been someone who did not live in London but visited the city on weekends, or someone who worked during the week and was only free on weekends.

Jack the Ripper's murders

The Ripper was famous for the brutality of his murders. He often mutilated his victims, usually killing them by slashing their throats open, almost to the point of decapitation, and stabbing them multiple times, especially in the abdomen. Annie Chapman's violently mutilated body was found on September 8 of 1888. Aside from having multiple stab wounds and deep gashes in her throat, her uterus had been removed from her body. Jack the Ripper apparently liked to take organs from the bodies of his victims, possibly as souvenirs. In one of the letters he sent to the police, he claims to have fried part of Catherine Eddowes's kidney and eaten it. He also claimed to have saved some of the "proper red stuff" (blood) from his first murder so that he could use it to write the letter.

The most grotesquely mutilated of the Ripper's victims was the body of Mary Jane Kelly, who was also the youngest of his five victims. Her neck was sliced wide open, from the throat all the way down her abdomen. Her heart had been removed, and most of her organs had been pulled outside of her body and spread all over the bed she was found on. Her face had been brutally hacked away with a knife. It was later reported that the police officers that found her were so disgusted by the violent mutilation that they couldn't stay in the room for more than a few moments at a time. The young prostitute was so badly disfigured that her current lover could only identify her by the color of her hair and eyes.

Letters

One of the reasons why Jack the Ripper was so famous was the fact that he actually sent in letters to the local London newspapers, just so that he could taunt the police. Many letters poured into the London newspapers claiming to be "the Ripper", and almost all of them were considered to be hoaxes. However, three of the Ripper Letters are considered to be authentic. These letters are called the "Dear Boss" letter, the "From Hell" letter, and the "Saucy Jacky" letter.

The first letter, received on September 27 of 1888, was signed "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper." The law enforcement and newspapers referred to him as the Ripper from that point on. The letter read:

"Dear Boss, I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they wont fix me just yet. I have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. That joke about Leather Apron gave me real fits. I am down on whores and I shant quit ripping them till I do get buckled. Grand work the last job was. I gave the lady no time to squeal. How can they catch me now. I love my work and want to start again. You will soon hear of me with my funny little games. I saved some of the proper red stuff in a ginger beer bottle over the last job to write with but it went thick like glue and I cant use it. Red ink is fit enough I hope ha. ha. The next job I do I shall clip the ladys ears off and send to the police officers just for jolly wouldn't you. Keep this letter back till I do a bit more work, then give it out straight. My knife's so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get a chance. Good Luck.

Yours truly Jack the Ripper

Dont mind me giving the trade name

PS Wasnt good enough to post this before I got all the red ink off my hands curse it No luck yet. They say I'm a doctor now. ha ha"[1]

The police later found the body of Annie Chapman, whose ear had been partially removed. This lead authorities to believe this letter was truly from the serial killer committing these gruesome murders.

The second letter, referred to commonly as the "Saucy Jacky Postcard", was smeared with blood and was received at the Central News Agency on October 1, 1888. The postcard read:

"I was not codding dear old Boss when I gave you the tip, you'll hear about Saucy Jacky's work tomorrow double event this time number one squealed a bit couldn't finish straight off. ha not the time to get ears for police. thanks for keeping last letter back till I got to work again.

Jack the Ripper"[2]

This letter widely accepted to be genuine because on September 30, 1888, two more prostitutes were found dead near Whitechapel Street, just as the letter said.

The third and final of the Ripper Letters was the "From Hell" letter, received on the 16 of October of 1888. The letter was inside a small box that also contained half of Catherine Eddowes's kidney. The letter read:

"From hell. Mr Lusk, Sor I send you half the Kidney I took from one woman and perserved it for you. The other piece I fried and ate it was very nice. I may send you the bloody knife that i took it out with if you only wait a while longer.

signed Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk" [3]

Although hundreds of other letters were sent into local newspaper agencies and law enforcement agencies, these three are largely considered to be authentic letters written by the serial killer himself, although there are still many who believe all of the letters to be a hoax. There is a possibility that all of the Ripper Letters were written by journalists trying to keep up the hype of the Whitechapel Street murders.

The end of the crimes

After the murder of Mary Jane Kelly, the Ripper murders stopped suddenly. Many believe that the ripper either died, or moved onto another district to resume his murders. To this day, the identity of Jack the Ripper is unknown, although many have speculated that the reason he was never caught is because he was a London police detective. Although many historians have different opinions and theories on who Jack the Ripper was, we probably will never truly know who he was.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.casebook.org/ripper_letters/
  2. ↑ http://www.casebook.org/ripper_letters/
  3. ↑ http://www.casebook.org/ripper_letters/

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