All killings occurred within one mile area and involved the districts of Whitechapel,

Spitalfields, Aldgate, and the city of London proper. The man I am referring to is no

other then the notorious Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel, or the Leather Apron.

Jack the Ripper is significant and popular, not just because he was a serial killer,

but because he was the first to appear in a large metropolis at the time when the general

puplic had become literate and the press was a force for social change. The Ripper

appeared when there was a tremendous political turmoil and both liberals and social

reformers, also the Irish Home rule partisans tried to use the crimes for their own ends.

Its hard to believe that this has only happened twelve years ago. Everyday there would

be an editorial or a chronicle in the newspaper about the activities of the Ripper or the

police. Many of you remember this and reading about the Ripper and know what I am

3) The name of Macnaghten's second suspect was confirmed as Aaron Kosminiski.

The Ripper was thought to know a great deal about anatomy because the body’s

wrong. The drowned doctor way have been the Ripper.

How the Ripper operated was by approaching the women he would stand facing

Who was a Polish Jew put in an insane asylum and heard voices, but the facts are twisted

his victim. When the victim lifted her skirt he would strangle her until unconsciencness

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