Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. Attacks ascribed to the killer typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The name originated in a letter written by an individual claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media. A police investigation into a series of eleven brutal murders committed between 1888 and 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888.
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Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. Attacks ascribed to the killer typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge. The name originated in a letter written by an individual claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media. The murders were never solved, and the legends surrounding these crimes became a combination of historical research, folklore, and pseudohistory. A police investigation into a series of eleven brutal murders committed between 1888 and 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888. Five victims are known as the \”canonical five\” and their murders between 31 August and 9 November 1888 are often considered the most likely to be linked. Most experts point to deep slash wounds to the throat, extensive abdominal and genital-area mutilation, the removal of organs, and progressive facial and facial mutilation as the distinctive features of the killer’s modus operandi. The first two cases are not included in the canonical file, those of Emma Smith and Martha Tabram, who were robbed and sexually assaulted in 30 Osborn Street, at approximately 1, approximately 1:30am on 1 November 1888.
The last two cases in thecanonical file are those of Elizabeth Smith and Emma Smith, who was robbed, sexually assaulted, and then murdered in 1:40am on 2 November 1888 at 30 Osborne Street. The fifth case is those of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly, between 3 April and 13 February 1891. The final case in the canonical file is the murder of Mary Mary Nichols, on 3 April 1891, at 1:45am on 3 May 1891 at the home of her daughter, Mary Ann, in London’s Spitalfields. The killer is believed to have left a note saying that he had killed her because she was a prostitute, and that he would kill her again the next day. The case is considered to be one of the most notorious murders in British history, but it is not known if it was committed by the same person or by a different person. In October 1888, London’s Metropolitan Police Service estimated that there were 62 brothels and 1,200 women working as prostitutes in White chapel, with approximately 8,500 people residing in the 233 common lodging-houses. The nightly price of a single bed was 4d and the cost of sleeping upon a \”lean-to\” rope stretched across the bedrooms of these houses was 2d for adults or children. Between 1886 and 1889, frequent demonstrations led to police intervention and public unrest, such as Bloody Sunday. Anti-semitism, crime, nativism, racism, social disturbance, and severe deprivation influenced public perceptions that White Chapel was a den of immorality.
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