In 1888 the East End of London became the staging place for several ghastly murders that caused an outrage through out the entire nation. Although the killer’s identity has been widely speculated upon, up until today, the killer is still known as Jack the Ripper. This ruthless serial killer was responsible for the brutal murder of five women in London.

The first attacks from this heartless fend was on August31st, of 1888. The first victim, Mary Anne Nichols was the wife of a printer, she had five children before her estrange husband ran off and eloped with one of her friends in 1877. Mary was drawn into the life of prostitution, in order to support her children. On August the31st, 1888, Mary Nichols body was found, Mary’s throat was slashed open, her vertebrate exposed and she was repeatedly stabbed in the stomach. There was hardly anything reported on Mary’s murder; the London Police treated her like an

Shortly before 6am, Ms. Chapman’s, mutilated body lay exposed in the dank morning air. Who was this monster and how is it that this individual seems to always disappear within the shadows on the streets of London. Could this murderer, be the

On the 29th September, the Central News Agency received a letter that started off…

Following the night of the double killings, a letter was received by

Another suspect that comes into mind is an American Doctor named, Thomas Neil Cream. Thomas Cream had also been arrested in connection with the poisoning of prostitutes and habitually writing to the police, giving false names and false accusations of a number of crimes. Thomas Cream was sentence to death by, hanging in 1892. His departing words were, “I’m Jack the Ri…” as the rope snapped taut and broke his neck. However, Cream was in jail at the time of the double murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

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