Jack the Ripper

The cover of the September 21, 1889, issue of Puck magazine, featuring a depiction of the unidentified Whitechapel murderer Jack the Ripper.

Cartoon criticising the police for their inability to find the Whitechapel murderer. From Punch, 22nd September 1888, page 134.

The Nemesis of Neglect (Punch Sept 29th 1888).

Elizabeth Stride (maiden name Elisabeth Gustafsdotter, nicknamed "Long Liz"), born in Sweden on November 27, 1843, and killed on Sunday, September 30, 1888. Stride's body was discovered close to 01:00 in the early morning, lying on the ground in Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street (since renamed Henriques Street) in Whitechapel.

Mary Jane Kelly (called herself "Marie Jeanette Kelly" after a trip to Paris, nicknamed "Ginger"), reportedly born in either the city of Limerick or County Limerick, Munster, Ireland ca. 1863 and killed on Friday, November 9, 1888. Kelly's gruesomely mutilated body was discovered shortly after 10:45 am lying on the bed in the single room where she lived at 13 Miller's Court, off Dorset Street, Spitalfields.

Mary Jane Kelly

Catherine Eddowes (used the aliases "Kate Conway" and "Mary Ann Kelly," from the surnames of her two common-law husbands Thomas Conway and John Kelly), born on April 14, 1842, and killed on Sunday, September 30, 1888, on the same day as the previous victim, Elizabeth Stride. Ripperologists refer to this circumstance as the "double event". Her body was found in Mitre Square, in the City of London.

Catherine Eddowes

Catherine Eddowes

Catherine Eddowes

Annie Chapman (maiden name Eliza Ann Smith, nicknamed "Dark Annie"), born in September 1841 and killed on Saturday, September 8, 1888. Chapman's body was discovered about 6:00 in the morning lying on the ground near a doorway in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields.

Mary Ann Nichols (maiden name Mary Ann Walker, nicknamed "Polly"), born on August 26, 1845, and killed on Friday, August 31, 1888. Nichols' body was discovered at about 3:40 in the early morning on the ground in front of a gated stable entrance in Buck's Row (since renamed Durward Street), a back street in Whitechapel two hundred yards from the London Hospital.

"Dear Boss", the first letter from Jack the Ripper (pt 1).

"Dear Boss", the first letter from Jack the Ripper (pt 2).

"Dear Boss", the first letter from Jack the Ripper (envelope).

The "From Hell" Letter postmarked 15 October 1888.

The "Saucy Jack" Postcard.

The "Saucy Jack" Postcard front.

D.C. Halse´s Version - "The Juwes are not the men That Will be Blamed for nothing"

P.C. Long´s Version - "The Juwes are the men That Will not be Blamed for nothing"

Copy attached to Chief Commissioner Sir Charles Warren's report

Druitt

Klosowski (aka Chapman)

Klosowski (aka Chapman)

Ostrog

Tumblety

William Henry Bury

Cream

Deeming

Lewis Carroll

Joseph Barnett

Kelly

Maybrick

Sickert

Thompson

Prince Albert Victor

Sir John Williams

Sir William Whithey Gull

Frederick George Abberline (January 8, 1843 Blandford Forum, Dorset – December 10, 1929) was an inspector for the London Metropolitan Police and was a prominent police figure in the investigation into the Jack the Ripper murders.

George Godley

Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten CBE, CB (June 16, 1853-May 12, 1921) was Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Force from 1903-1913.He is known for a major report in 1894 on the Jack the Ripper case, naming three possible Jack the Ripper suspects.

Donald Sutherland Swanson

PC William Smith, 452H, came on duty at 10:00pm, Saturday, 29 September, 1888. His patrol took him 25-30 minutes. At c.12:35am, Sunday, 30 September, he passed through Berner Street, noticing Stride with a man standing near Dutfield's Yard. Having gone round his beat, PC Smith was again at the corner of Commercial Road and Berner Street at 1:00am; he noticed a crowd had gathered outside of Dutfield's Yard.

Inspector Edmund Reid

Inspector Walter Andrews

Chief Constable Adolphus Frederick Williamson

George Lusk who received the "From Hell" letter, one of numerous letters claiming to be from the 1888 Whitechapel murderer, dubbed Jack the Ripper by the press.

Jacques l'Êbieilleux - Jèrriais