0
What evidence was found in the time of the murders that could have incriminated Jack the Ripper?
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
The physical evidence in the Jack case, was evidence within the victims not a evidence surfaced against Jack the ripper since he was not aprended. Prostitutes were slashed and bloody letters were sent to the police.
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoIt is an accepted fact that every killer leaves something of himself on the victim/crime scene and takes with him something of the victim's, be it blood, saliva, hair or minute fibers from clothes, sometimes even pet hair can connect killer to victim. I'm quite sure the Ripper left something of himself at each crime. But the science needed to catch this kind of killer did not exist. That left very little for police to work with. Eye witness testimony made up the biggest part of the investigation. Unfortuneatly, it is a proven fact that eye witnesses are the most unreliable type of evidence.
The few pieces of physical evidence found was little help to investigators on the case. The writing in chalk* at the Eddows scene was destroyed by Commissioner Charles Warren's order to wash it off the wall. There was also a piece of leather with blood stains found by a water spiget near Eddow's body. A clear attempt by the killer to wipe the blood from his hands, and then to wash his hands under the water spiget. The Whitechapel district was overflowing in butchers and furriers, and at times the blood actually flowed in the gutters along the streets. So a single piece of bloody leather did little to advance the investigation. In 1888 there was no test to determine human from animal blood. A piece of blood-soaked material was found nearby. It was found to match the apron Eddows was wearing at the time of her death. Without the forensic tools of the 21st century it remained just a piece of apron.
*Message in chalk:The Juwes are The men That Will not be Blamed for nothing.
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoScotland Yard investigated the Ripper murders with all available resorces. From undercover police walking the mean streets of Whitechapel to the searching of each home and boarding house, even tracking dogs were brought in, all with no resolution. Even the Queen was anxious to see the killer caught. The Ripper was causing quite a stir, drawing attention to the horrible living conditions in Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts.
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoAt the time of the killings, modern techniques did not exists and back then there were none evidence that could have incrimanated Jack the ripper.
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoA leather apron soaked in blood would be a good evidence left at a crime scene in today's standards. It was not so good in those days. The ripper also send parts of the victim to the police.
Wiki User
∙ 9y agoHe was never identified or caught although there are a couple suspects, never proven./
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Why was Montague druitt a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders?
In those days whit the police invenstigating techniques, anyone could be a suspect in the Jack the ripper case. Montague John Druitt was an assistant schoolmaster in Blackheath, London and a graduate of Winchester College and an avid sportsman who was discovered drowned in the Thames river on December 31, 1888. He had heavy stones in his pockets making it clearly that it was a suicide. There is very little evidence with which to implicate with the cannonical five whitechappel murders. He was also a homosexual. Evidence which supports Druitt's being the Ripper is all but non-existant. In fact, his only true link can be made in his appearance and his likeness to many witness accounts.
Who did they interview to find out who Jack The Ripper was?
At the time of the Ripper murders and for quite some time after, Scotland Yard spoke to and interviewed hundreds of suspects and possible witnesses reguarding the Whitechapel Murders, to no avail. JTR was daring committing his crimes out on the street where he could have been discovered at any moment. But science did not permit his capture and through no fault of the police or the detectives that worked the case the Ripper was never identified.
How many crimes did Jack the Ripper do?
The canonical murder was the name of the 5 woman murdered in 1888. The official number is 5 but other murders could be attributted to him. The number is around 13.
When did Jack The Ripper get arrested?
he was never caught. He may have been arrested, just not for the Whitechapel murders. At the height of the Ripper killings, many people were arrested by later released. There were also people being arrested for other crimes. He could have been one of them and nobody figured out he was the killer too.
Was Jack the Ripper alive in the 1st world war?
No one can say the ripper lived until ww1. After the murder of Mary Kelly, Jack the Ripper mysteriously stopped his attacks. After that there were few murders that could be his. Jack made his crimes in 1888. The ww1 began in July 1914. That gives us 24 years. When the ripper was active, murders likes his were being investigated in the US, in Mexico, South America and other places and I don't believe in a worldwide ripper mania. 1888 was a time were medical knowledge were not improved specially in the area of psychiatry. Sociopaths, psychopaths and paranoid schizophrenics were not quite understood. For sociopaths there is no drug or treatment but for paranoid schizophrenics there are treatments and drugs. The one thing we can say for sure, is that the ripper was alive in 1888 and maybe a few years after that. Nobody can say for sure the ripper lived until ww1.
Where did Jack the Ripper go after the murders stopped?
As 'Jack' was never identified this fact is not known. There would be very few choices as to what became of the Ripper after his last victim. He could be dead. He could have moved or he killed until he started to get old and maybe a little infirm. He was most likely arrested for some other offense and jailed, without the police realizing whom they had.
Name tv series featuring Jack The Ripper?
I could not find a TV series on Jack The Ripper but there was a 1988 TV movie about the Ripper.
How did Jack The Ripper highlight social conditions in Whitechapel?
Probably the only positive thing that was a result of these murders is the attention it brought to the living conditions in the east end. They were deplorable and long overdue for change. The Ripper murders brought the Whitechapel district out into the light where it could not be denied. I'm sure that most people in London knew to some degree about the poverty, but the Ripper pushed it into their faces, and the whole world saw it. There was no option but to try to do something to improve the lives of these poor people that did their living and dying in London's east end.
How did terrible housing help Jack the Ripper?
There were a lot of places were the ripper could hide while making the killing. As far as we know, the ripper killed 5 prostitutes and there was a double event which one could not be a ripper killing. So apart from being a prostitute and drunk in the early hours of the morning, the chances of being attacked by the ripper are minimum.
Could Jack the Ripper have been a vampire?
No. Vampires are fiction - that is not real - whereas Jack the Ripper was a real person.
How was Jack the Ripper's crimes different from any other to that point in history?
Although Jack The Ripper was not the world's first serial murderer he was different in at least one respect. His crimes were so well known because of the media frenzy that surrounded these murders. He got so much publicity not just in London or even in England but world-wide. Americans and many other countries were facinated with these horrible murders and because of new communication technology the world could hear about his exploits within a short amount of time.
Did Jack the Ripper kill only five people?
The experts at the time judged that the mode of operation indicated that the same man had committed all the murders. The wounds were similer. The method was similer. The type of victim was similer.
