Was Jack The Ripper accused of other murders?

Answer 1

The records states 5 murder victims. Some have reasons to believe that the first victim was really Martha Tabram who was murdered Tuesday, August 7, 1888, and there are important considerations for questioning whether Stride was a Ripper victim. Just forty-five minutes after the body of Elizabeth Stride had been discovered, the body of a second prostitute, Catherine Eddowes, was found. Catherine Eddowes look as a ripper victim but Stride did not. Philip Sugden wrote in his book, The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, "There is no simple answer. In a sentence: at least four, probably six, just possibly eight." We can also consider more victims to the ripper.

//Without a doubt, Jack The Ripper killed more than the original five victims that are associated with this case. Martha Tabram may or may not have been the first victim, or she may have been his second or third. Due to the very nature of serial murder, there is usually an escalation of some sort as the killer moves from one victim to the next. This is obvious with the crimes of JTR. The mutilations became increasingly horrific with each woman he killed.

Elizabeth Stride, the first in the 'double event' was not mutilated for a very good reason. The killer had only enough time to cut her throat before he was interrupted by a pedestrian. Had he stayed even a few more moments he would have been caught. This was bad news for Catherine Eddows who was murdered less than an hour later. The Ripper did find the time to mutilate Eddows. He destroyed her face almost to being unrecognizable. The victim count for Jack The Ripper is most likely closer to twelve or thirteen which included the murder of Francis Coles in 1891.//

Only you would think that coming close to being identified, the ripper would run finding another victim so quickly. Any ways, the doubt exists.