A Murderer From "Hell"
...decades mankind has wondered, searched, and investigated who he was without avail. "I am down on whores and I shan't stop ripping them till I do get buckled," exclaims Jack in a letter to the police (Chitolie). Despite the fact that there was abundant evidence, the case has yet to be solved. It was not uncommon in the late 1800'f for prostitutes to be murdered, but the brutality of his attacks was such that it brought about attention from the media (BBC). Notwithstanding the victims, weapons, and evidence, jack the Ripper remains an unsolved mystery.
Jack the Ripper has become a name so widely known not simply because it was never solved, but because of his choice of victim. His victims were prostitutes, or at least the conical five. The five are as follows: Mary Ann Nicholls, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly (Wikipedia.com). The victim's injuries were similar in the aspect that they all had some indications that the attacker had a medical background (Barbee). Mary Ann Nicholls was murdered on Friday, August 31, 1888 (Barbee) and was attacked along the throat, revealing the vertebrae. She was also stabbed in the stomach multiple times (Chitolie). Her Body was found at about 3:40 in the morning on a back street in Whitechapel (Wikipedia.com). In the case of Annie Chapman, she was murdered Saturday, September 8,1888 in Spitalfields. Her uterus was taken out of her body and kept by the murderer (Metropolitan). Next was Elizabeth Stride, who lost her life on Sunday, September 30, 1888 on Berner Street in the East End of London (Metropolitan). An attempt was made to remove her ear, but the attacker was interrupted and left the scene (Chitolie). Later the same day, Eddowes was attacked in Mitre Square in London. Her uterus and left kidney were removed and kept by the murderer (Metropolitan). Lastly, Kelley was murdered on...
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