Jack the Ripper

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Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England in the late 19th century. The name is taken from a letter sent to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer.

[edit] "Canonical five" victims

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.	Elizabeth Stride	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, thought to be the fifth and final victim of the murderer known as Jack the Ripper; this photo was taken at the crime scene, her home in Millers Court, near Commercial St. in East London
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	Photograph taken in 1888
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.
Photo of the body Polly Nichols- victim of Jack the Ripper

[edit] Possible Ripper victims

Mortuary photograph of Martha Tabram (1888)

Whitehall mystery of October 1888

[edit] Documents

[edit] Letters

"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

[edit] Goulston Street graffiti

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

Police copy of writing in Goulston Street, attached to Chief Commissioner sir Charles Warren's report on the circumstances surrounding the murder of Catherine Eddowes in Mitre Square 30 September 1888

[edit] Death certificates

Death certificate of Mary Jane Kelly, the 5th victim of Jack the Ripper

Death certificate of Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols

Death Certificate of Jack the Ripper victim Katharine Eddowes

Death certificate of Elizabeth Stride

[edit] Maps

Murder sites - Osborn Street (Emma Elizabeth Smith), George Yard (Martha Tabram), Durward Street (Mary Ann Nichols), Hanbury Street (Annie Chapman), Berner Street (Elizabeth Stride), Mitre Square (Catherine Eddowes), Dorset Street (Mary Jane Kelly).

[edit] Newspapers and posters

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).	Wanted poster - issued by the police during the 'autumn of terror' 1888.
Whitehall mystery of October 1888.	Dr Phillips examining the body of Annie Chapman in a press drawing of 1888	The Illustrated Police News for October 27, 1888

[edit] Suspects

Druitt	Klosowski (aka Chapman)	Klosowski (aka Chapman)	Ostrog
Tumblety	William Henry Bury	Cream	Deeming
Lewis Carroll	Joseph Barnett	Kelly	Maybrick
James Kenneth Stephen	Thompson	Sir John Williams	Sir William Whithey Gull

[edit] Police and other investigators

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.