Jack the Ripper
"One day, men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century"
- Jack the Ripper of From Hell (2001)
There are lots of stories and false alarms regarding one of the famous serial killers in the world, Jack the Ripper. He had terrorized the Whitechapel in the East End of London in 1888. He had five victims in the months of August, September and November and multilated their bodies in an unusual manner as if the suspect has knowledge about human anatomy.He was never captured since then and still remains a mystery.
The moniker "Jack the Ripper came from a letter and was published by a journalist who had turned five victims of a notorious killer into an international phenomenon and had born the legend of the unknown killer.The killings took place in the districts of Whitechapel, Spitalfields, in London only within a mile with each other. Despite countless investigations claiming definitive evidence of the brutal killer's identity, his name and motive are still unknown.
Some would say that Jack the Ripper had gruesome murders even before the acknowledgement of the five prostitutes, and the victims were actually eleven. The five victims were named:
- Martha Tabram - murdered in August 7 1888 she had thirty-nine stab wounds pepper-potted her body from her throat to her lower abdomen. The majority of the wounds having been inflicted with an ordinary pocket knife, whilst a deep wound to her breast had been dealt by some long, strong instrument which could have been a sword bayonet or dagger.
- Mary Nichols - murdered in August 31st 1888 she was seen lying on her back, legs were straight out and her skirts were raised almost over her waist. Throat had been slashed that her head had almost been cut from her body.
- Annie Chapman - murdered in September 8 1888 her head was turned towards the house and her clothes had been tugged up above her waist exposing her red and white striped stockings handkerchief was tied around her throat her face and hands were covered in blood and her hands were raised and bent with the palms towards the upper portion of her body.
- Elizabeth Stride - murdered in 3oth of September. Her silk scarf was pulled tightly around her neck and her throat was in whilst.
- Catherine Eddowes - murdered in 3oth of September found lying on her back pool of blood with her clothes thrown up over her waist.
