The complete history of jack the rip Continue Adding new material to his complete jack the Ripper story, crime writer and historian Philip Sugden has painstakingly uncovered a lot of new and still neglected material, including a new Ripper sighting, a possible earlier attack, and a potential American connection. As the Ripper Dan Farson points out: This is indeed the final score, for the chair of the detectives from the White Chapel of Horrors and all the true fans of the crime. A thorough and reasonable profile for readers and future detectives. -Kirkus Reviews Charm is a well-written story about the character of an almost mythical state. -Daily Telegraph (London) This article is about a serial killer. For other purposes, see Jack the Ripper (disambigation). Unknown Serial Killer Jack the Ripper With Vigilance Committee in the East End: Suspicious Character from Illustrated London News, 13 October 1888BornUnknownOther Names Killer WhitechapelKy Apron ApronDetailstimsUnknown (5 Canonical)Date1888-1891 (?) (1888: 5 canonical) Location (s) Whitechapel and Spitalfields, London, England (5 canonical) Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer, active in mostly poor areas in and around London's Whitechapel area in 1888. Both in the materials of the criminal case, and in modern journalistic accounts, the killer was called Whitechapel's killer and a leather apron. The attacks are attributed to Jack the Ripper, usually involving female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of London's East End, whose throat was slit before FGM. The removal of internal organs from at least three victims resulted in their killer having some anatomical or surgical knowledge. Rumours that the killings were linked intensified in September and October 1888, and numerous letters from persons allegedly involved in the murder appeared in the media and Scotland Yard. The name Jack the Ripper originated in a letter written by a man claiming to be a murderer, which was circulated in the media. The letter is believed to have been a hoax and may have been written by journalists in an attempt to increase interest in the story and increase the circulation of its newspapers. The letter From Hell, received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, came with half of the surviving human kidney, allegedly taken from one of the victims. The public increasingly believed in one serial killer, known as Jack the Ripper, mainly because of the extremely brutal nature of the killings and because of media coverage of the crimes. Extensive newspaper coverage bestowed widespread and enduring international notoriety on the Ripper, and the legend strengthened. The police investigation into a series of eleven brutal murders committed in Whitechapel and Spitalfields between 1888 and 1891 was finally link all murders to the murders of 1888. The five victims - Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddows and Mary Jane Kelly - are known as the canonical Five, and their murders between August 31 and November 9, 1888 are often considered the most likely. The murders were never solved, and the legends associated with these crimes were a combination of historical research, folklore and pseudo-history. Background women and children gather in front of one of Whitechapel's common boarding houses near where Jack the Ripper killed two of his victims in the mid-19th century, with an influx of Irish immigrants in Britain that swelled the population of major cities including London's East End. Since 1882, Jewish refugees fleeing pogroms in Tsarist Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe have emigrated to the same area. Whitechapel Parish in London's East End grew increasingly crowded, with the city's population increasing to about 80,000 by 1888. Working and housing conditions have deteriorated and a significant economic subclass has developed. Fifty-five per cent of children born in the East End died before the age of five. Robbery, violence and alcohol dependence were commonplace, and endemic poverty forced many women into prostitution in order to survive on a daily basis. In October 1888, the London Metropolitan Police Service estimated that Whitechapel employs 62 brothels and 1,200 women, with around 8,500 people boarding houses in Whitechapel each night, with a nightly price of a single bed in 4d.8 and the cost of sleeping on a lean to (Hang-Over) rope stretched through the bedrooms of these houses being 2d for adults or children. The economic problems in Whitechapel were accompanied by a steady increase in social tensions. Between 1886 and 1889, frequent demonstrations led to police intervention and public unrest, such as Bloody Sunday (1887). Anti-Semitism, crime, nativism, racism, social unrest and serious deprivation influenced public opinion that Whitechapel was the proverbial lair of immorality. This perception intensified in the autumn of 1888, when a series of brutal and grotesque murders attributed to Jack the Ripper received unprecedented media coverage. Murders Home article: Whitechapel kills sites of the first seven Whitechapel murders - Osborne Street (centre right), George Yard (centre left), Hanbury Street (top left), Bucks Row (far right), Berner Street (bottom right), Mitre Square (bottom left) and Dorset Street (middle left) Eleven separate murders, From April 3, 1888 to February 13, 1891, were included in the London Metropolitan Police Service investigation and were known collectively in the police dossier as the Whitechapel Murders. Opinions differ on whether these murders should be linked to the same perpetrator, but five of Whitechapel's eleven murders, known as the canonical five, are widely believed to be the work of Jack the Ripper. Most experts point to deep slash wounds in the throat, followed by extensive mutilation in the abdominal and genital areas, removal of internal organs and progressive facial mutilation as hallmarks of the Ripper's working methods. The first two cases in the Whitechapel murder case, the cases of Emma Elizabeth Smith and Martha Tabram, are not included in the canonical five. Smith was robbed and sexually assaulted on Osborne Street, Whitechapel, at about 1.30am on April 3, 1888. She was punched in the face and suffered a cut in her ear. A blunt object was also inserted into her vagina, tearing her abdominal floor. She developed peritonitis and died the next day in a London hospital. Smith said she was attacked by two or three men, one of whom she described as a teenager. The attack was linked to more recent press killings, but most authors attribute Smith's murder to the general violence of an East End gang unrelated to the Ripper case. Tabram was killed in a stairwell in George Yard, Whitechapel, on 7 August 1888; She suffered 39 stab wounds to her throat, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, abdomen and abdomen, as well as additional stab wounds to her chest and vagina. All but one of Tabram's wounds were inflicted with a bladed tool, such as a penknife, and, with one possible exception, all wounds were inflicted with his right hand. Tabram was not raped. The savagery of this murder, the lack of an obvious motive, the proximity of the place and the date to the later canonical murders of the Ripper led the police to link this murder to the murders later committed by Jack the Ripper. However, this murder differs from the later canonical killings, because although Tabram was repeatedly stabbed, she did not receive any slash wounds in her throat or abdomen. Many experts do not link Tabram's murder to the later killings because of this difference in the structure of the wounds. Canonical five canonical five victims of the Ripper Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddows and Mary Jane Kelly. The body of Mary Ann Nichols was discovered at about 3.40am on Friday 31 August 1888 in Bucks Row (now Durward Street), Whitechapel. Nichols was last seen alive about an hour before discovering her body was Mrs Emily Holland, with whom she had previously shared a bed on the commons on Trout Street, Spitalfields, heading towards Whitechapel Road. Her throat was torn by two deep cuts, one of which completely tore all the tissues to the vertebrae. The ranger suffered two stab wounds twice and her lower abdomen was partially torn by a deep jagged wound, causing her bowel to protrude. Several other incisions in both sides of the abdomen were also caused by the same knife; each of these wounds was inflicted in a downward shoving manner. 29 Hanbury Street. The door through which Annie Chapman and her killer walked into the yard where her body was found is under the property sign a week later, on Saturday 8 September 1888, Annie Chapman's body was found at about 6am near the steps to the door of the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. As in the case of Mary Ann Nichols, her throat was torn by two deep cuts. Her stomach was completely cut and some of the flesh from her abdomen was placed on her left shoulder and another patch of skin and flesh, plus her small intestine was removed and placed above her right shoulder. Chapman's autopsy also revealed that her uterus and areas of her bladder and vagina had been removed. At the Chapman murder investigation, Elizabeth Long described seeing Chapman standing at about 29 Hanbury Street about 5.30am in the company of a dark-haired man in a brown deer stalker hat and dark coat, as well as a sweaty. According to the witness, the man asked Chapman, Will you? to which Chapman replied, Yes. Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddows were killed in the early hours of Sunday, September 30, 1888. Stryde's body was found at about 1am in The Datfield Yard, on Berner Street (now Henriques Street) in Whitechapel.