... at 3:40 a.m. with her throat slashed to the bone and several deep incisions in her abdomen (Colby-Newton 22). The next victim was discovered on Saturday, September 8, 1888. Annie Chapman, known as "Dark Annie", was a forty-seven year old alcoholic prostitute. She was killed in the backyard of a busy rooming house with evident savagery. She was strangled and then her throat was ... the murders stopped it was thought either the killer had committed suicide or that he had been caught and the police had covered it up (Eddleston 275). One suspect, Montague John Druitt committed suicide after...

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... case never agreed on the true total of the Ripper's victims. Estimates ranged from four to nine. Most modern experts agree that he claims at least four victims - Mary Nichols, Annie Chapman, Catharine Eddowes and Mary Kelley. There are strong grounds, however, for adding two more, Martha Tabram and Elizabeth Stride, making a probable tally of five or six, all prostitutes, all ... other parts of London, then the capital of the greatest empire in the world, lived in terror of the lone assassin. At about 4.45 Tuesday 7 August 1888 a waterside laborer named John Reeves left his room in the ...

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