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JACK THE RIPPER  |
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Jack the Ripper |
England's most notorious serial killer |
INTRODUCTION  |
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The unknown serial killer called himself "Jack the Ripper" in taunting letters sent to the police. He stalked the dimly lit, fog blanketed streets of East London with a single, brutal ambition.. MURDER. Under the cover of darkness, he lurked in the shadows, awaiting his prey......"the street women" of Old London Town … the despicable diary of death tells my story: |
FRIDAY 31st AUGUST, 1888, last seen leaving the "Frying Pan" Public House in Brock Lane, MARY NICHOLS was drunk and looking for her next customer. She was to meet her grisly end, found lying in a pool of blood on the old cobblestones of Bucks Row - my first victim as I became known as England's most notorious killer. |
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SATURDAY 8th SEPTEMBER 1888, shortly before 6am in a backyard on Hanbury Sreeet, ANNIE CHAPMAN'S mutilated body was found lying exposed in the cool morning air. I had struck again. |
Did you know? |
A group of volunteer citizens called the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee patrolled the streets of London looking for suspicious characters, petitioned the government to raise a reward for information about the killer, and hired private detectives to question witnesses separate from the police. |
SATURDAY 30th SEPTEMBER 1888, A day of double murder in London. I was at large, my blade "nice and sharp and ready". At 1am in Duffield's Yard, Berner Street, the body of ELIZABETH STRIDE was discovered, cut from ear to ear. Had I been disturbed? Almost caught blood-red handed? Again I had evaded capture, shrinking back into the shadows cast by dim gas lamps and the glow of a deathly full moon. |
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I reappeared to claim another victim in Mitre Square, Aldgate. Merely 10 minutes on foot from Berner Street, through the narrow alleyways. At 1.45 am CATHERINE EDDOWES bloodied corpse was found, silently slaughtered by the fearsome, and now, clearly practiced killer. |
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It was on this fearful night that a chalked message appeared on a wall in Goulston Street, the message read "The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing” A sinister confession perhaps? A false accusation? |
FRIDAY 9th NOVEMBER 1888, the month of October had passed with no further clues. Perhaps the murders had ceased? Sadly I would strike for a fifth and final time in a frenzied yet clinical assault. MARY KELLY, a young Irish girl, led astray by the East End way of life, of drink and prostitution, met me at number 13 Miller’s Court; I had more time to indulge in my brutal blood lust this time, slaying the pretty 25 year old behind closed doors. She was my last victim and the attack was so vile, police believed that my taste for macabre murder and thirst for blood had finally been satisfied. |
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With the last entry in the diary of death complete, I crept silently back into the shadows. Baffled detectives were left to puzzle over half clues and suspects. Theories and arguments still rage to this day, as to my true identity. My final mocking blow at the police was taunted in a letter I wrote.... "How can they catch me now? I love my work and want to start again....soon" Good Luck, Yours Truly “Jack the Ripper” |
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The police named 6 suspects, one was Montague John Druitt, the son of a prominent local physician. His body was found floating in the River Thames on 31st December 1888. The inquest concluded "he had committed suicide while of unsound mind" |
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