Due to the political turmoil between the liberals and the social reformers, they tried to use the crimes to their own end. The newspapers all over the world chronicled the murders, the police investigations, and even the feelings of the witnesses and people living in the immediate areas. They were responsible for sensationalizing these heinous crimes. Although the public, press, and even police believed the Ripper was responsible for at least nine slayings, there are only five that are generally accepted as being definitive.

The five are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapmen, Elizabeth Stride, Catharine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. All five women were murdered between August 1888 and November 1888. No one really knows the reason for the murders stopping. Newspapers reported many theories such as the Ripper dying, moving to Ame

"The left arm was placed across the left breast. The legs were drawn up, the feet resting on the ground, and the knees turned outwards. The face was swollen and turned on the right side. The tongue protruded between the front teeth, but not beyond the lips. The tongue was evidently much swollen. The front teeth were perfect as far as the first molar, top and bottom and very fine teeth they were. The body was terribly mutilated...the stiffness of the limbs was not marked, but was evidently commencing. He noticed that the throat was dissevered deeply; that the incision through the skin were jagged and reached right round the neck...On the wooden paling between the yard in question and the next, smears of blood, corresponding to where the head of the deceased lay, were to be seen. These were about 14 inches from the ground, and immediately above the part where the blood from the neck lay.” (Day one Monday, September 10, 1888) (The Daily Telegraph Tuesday, September 11, 1888)

The name Jack the Ripper came from a letter sent by someone claiming to be the murderer. On Sept 27th a letter was sent to the Central News agency.

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