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Jack the Ripper in a moniker given to an unidentified serial killer active in London's East End Whitechapel District between the months of August-November 1888, July of 1889, and February of 1891.

His identity was never known, as he was not officially arrested for the crimes. Over 100 suspects have been named as the killer, but the evidence to date clears all of these individuals of the charge with the sole exception of George Chapman, aka Severin Klosowski. Of all the suspects, only Chapman was active in the district during the time of the murders; had anatomical knowledge, and very closely resembles the man seen with the fifth victim Mary Jane Kelly.

From a profiling viewpoint, the Whitechapel murderer was most likely a misogynist. He was likely abused from childhood by a domineering mother or other female authority figure that instilled in him a deep seated hatred and possibly fear of women. The evidence suggests that he held a steady job likely as a book keeper or accountant. He was right handed, and new the district and the movements of the police well enough to easily avoid them, which suggests he most likely lived in the district. He was most likely unmarried and without steady female companionship. His friends and co-workers would have described him as being quiet and restrained; even shy, and very clean and tidy.

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Patricia Cornwell revealed her favorite suspect for the Jack The Ripper crimes in her New York Times bestseller Jack The Ripper: Case Closed. Impressionist artist Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was at the very least, an incredible oddball. Although not all of the DNA testing was complete at the time of the book's publication in 2002, a later updated version gives compelling evidence that Sickert would have much explaining to do if he were alive today. Many Ripper letters and Sickert correspondence have matching mitochondrial DNA sequences. The circumstantial evidence uncovered by Cornwell's thorough research makes it hard to dismiss Sickert as the Ripper.

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Jack The Ripper is the name of an unknown serial killer most active in the 1888's in London's east end district Whitechapel. His choice of victims were east end prostitutes, most of them middle aged. His crimes were incredibly viscious and brutal. He cut the women's throats first (some almost decapitated) and preceeded to stab and cut the faces, necks, torsos, disembowling them and in most taking body parts. The Ripper was never caught although the list of suspects numbers in the hundreds.

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Jack The Ripper Jack The Ripper was not a crime, it was a name given to a notorious criminal murderer who to this day has not been formerly identified.---To answer this question more information would be required, such as when historically,over what period of time,moral or legal crime etc.


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At the time of Jack The Ripper, known as the Victorian age, the world was gearing up for the industrial revolution. Machines were replacing people, the automobile would soon replace horses and there was the hope that prosperity was just around the corner. This was the environment that the Ripper hunted in. ADDED: He wasn't! The Industrial Revolution was pretty well over before the murderer was born. Victorian Britain was a time and place of continuing, rapid progress in science and engineering; and these followed the Revolution itself. Otherwise he had no link to it at all: he was simply a murderer. To this day though, his identity is unknown, with various theories put forward but non provable.


Who was 'Jack the Ripper'?

Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England in the latter half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings. There have been some theories that "Jack" may have actually been a "Jill", but the evidence is inconclusive. Although several suspects were investigated by the police at the time, no solid evidence on anybody was ever collected - ideas abound now about over a hundred suspects, many linked by the tiniest shred of circumstantial proof. Nobody was prosecuted and the murders remain unsolved today.


What did Jack The Ripper do to Elizabeth Stride?

Of all Jack's victims Stride got off easy. Because he was interrupted by a man with a pony cart the Ripper had to flee before he could mutilate her body. But he did have time to cut her throat, nearly decapitating her.


How did Elizabeth stride die?

There is no historical record or evidence to suggest that Elizabeth Stride, who was a victim of Jack the Ripper, died by any means other than being murdered. She was found dead with her throat cut in the early hours of September 30, 1888, in Whitechapel, London. The identity and motive of Jack the Ripper remain unknown.

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