Firstly, she died a similar, extraordinary violent death as Martha Tabram, which suggests the same ‘demented’ killer. She was claimed to be the ‘poorest of the poor’, a prostitute, which infers there could have been no motive. As the police didn’t have the forensics or scientific knowledge that we have today, they had no evidence to work on.

This source is useful, but it does have its weaknesses. Firstly we have to take into consideration that it is a newspaper article and it is very limited in what to offers. The language is quite simple and unspecific. The author probably hasn’t seen any of the bodies, and suggests another weakness in the source. Basically this article is just generating/reflecting emotions of the ‘startled people in London’ at the time.

Source B deals with the Coroner’s rep

Without evidence, police work increased on the streets. But they were not all working for the same reason. There were many different police forces using different techniques, finding evidence, almost a competition of who could solve the murder first. This prevented forces exchanging evidence and therefore working against each other.

Source D helps us understand why the Ripper avoided capture. The only evidence police had to support the case on was reports from witnesses and either to catch the killer midst act. Elizabeth Long was one of the only witnesses of seeing Annie Chapman with a man before she was killed.

Source A states that newspapers sensationalised everything. It was the first serial killing and the police were in their infancy. The police were more military than brains. The police were under intense pressure dealing with newspapers making assumptions etc. A also shows that there were no motives, the killings were random, which made the investigation much harder. Source J shows how Jack was risky because the picture shows how close to civilisation the killings took place. Whitechapel was a very populated part of London and there was bound to have been inhabitants of the surrounding houses.

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