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There is a problem investigating serial killings. These people kill person not related to them most of the time. It becomes hard to link them to the victims. The next thing is that nobody witnessed the crime so no description could be brought forward. This makes these people hard to catch. Most serial killers are caught by accident. In Ted Bundy's case, he was speeding.

Now, back in 1888, ivenstigating skills weren't like the investigating methods of today. There was no finger printing nor DNA analisis. Large metrolopis weren't used to serial killers and the police was not used to investigate them.

The police put posters about him and the media covered the case and all the world was aware of the news but the lack of investigating methods back then were not enough.

I have heard theories about the reason Jack the ripper quit killing. I have two theories I believe are possible.

1. His family noticed he was a ripper and kept him locked in the families home. A letter reached the police which says so. This is possible.

2. This is the theorie I believe the most. Maybe you have not read about it. As far I know, I had not read about it nowhere and maybe I made this theory. It goes like this:

He didn't quit killing. The fact that he cut a large piece of flesh from the last victim could tell us a lot of things. He didn't used it to mail it to the police to brag. The only reason we could think is that he kept it to consume it. Once he became a canival, he needed a place to cut the victims to pieces and lots of time to eat them. Once a killer goes canival, he quits writing to the police and not leaving the dead to be found. Just like the Damher case.

In 1888 this could go on for a long time before the police caught the culprit.

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