There are numerous books and publications that deal with the mystery of Jack the Ripper. Some are factual or, at least, claim to be, while others are fictional. Still others blend fact and fiction together. This creates confusion for a person who wants to seriously study Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders. lthough first published in 1994, Philip Sugden's historical investigation of the gruesome Whitechapel murders still stands out as a fact-based classic on Saucy Jack. There is certainly no shortage of books and movies about Jack the Ripper, the mysterious 19th century serial killer of London prostitutes (1888 - 1891). What makes Sugden's book stand out from the crowd is the fact that he started from scratch.

At the time of the Ripper murders minorities were made the scapegoat for many situations. There were thousands of immigrant Jews that lived in the east end of London and were suspect to the rest of the population. Jews were neither liked or trusted, which is why there was a lot of 'finger pointing' when Scotland Yard failed to capture the Ripper.

The most famously remembered today is Detective Inspector George Aberline although there were other DI's on the case. The case was initially headed by DI Edmund Reid until Aberline was sent in to help along with DI's Henry Moore and Walter Andrews.

After the Eddowes murder, which occurred within the City of London, the City Police under Detective Inspector James McWilliam were also engaged. However, overall direction of the murder enquiries was confused and hampered by the fact that the newly appointed head of the CID, Sir Robert Anderson, was on leave in Switzerland between 7 September and 15 October, during which time Chapman, Stride and Eddowes were killed. This prompted the Chief Commissioner of the Met., Sir Charles Warren, to appoint Superintendent Donald Swanson to coordinate the enquiry from Scotland Yard. Swanson's notes on the case survive and are a valuable record of the investigation.

These are just the 5 victims that were originally thought to be the Ripper's only victims. We now know there were many more.

Mary Ann Nichols-Buck's Row

Annie Chapman-#29 Hanbury St.

Elizabeth Stride-Berner St.

Katherine Eddows-Mitre Square

Mary Kelly-#13 Miller's Court

Message on the wall-Goulston St. This was the infamous message on the wall found just a short distance from the Chapman murder scene. It was erased on the orders of Comm. Warren and caused an uproar from everyone, but mostly from fellow officers.

I believe Nature records itself, and later repeats itself another time another place, and read the extraordinary assassination similarity between Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy beyond mere coincidence, but replayed in similar fashion.

Jack only killed at weekends, the same with Sutcliffe:

Jack killed young women, and Sutcliffe similar:

A witness said Jack was seen about five foot eight tall, was bearded and soft spoken:

Sutcliffe was five foot eight tall, and soft spoken:

I read regarding Jack the police coverage and newspapers the greatest ever:

Our newspaper, police and TV coverage perhaps the greatest ever: Regarding Jack the Inspectors received several letters from the man himself, and considered either genuine or hoax:

Regarding Sutcliffe the Inspectors received a tape from either the man himself, or hoax: I read Jack suspect arriving horse drawn carriage:

Sutcliffe visited driving either a lorry and car:

I read major suspect Sutcliffe was interviewed several times and released, and taking these similarities further if someone checking police archive documents regarding another major suspect interviewed several times and released, it could be the man himself, and married same as Sutcliffe.

We do not know for sure, but five women are usually considered definite Ripper victims. Three others are possible, though likelihood varies between them.

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.

The main officers from the Metropolitan Police (as opposed to the City Police, who had only jurisdiction over the Catherine Eddows murder, or Scotland Yard) were:

Sir Charles Warren (commissioner)

Sir Robert Anderson (assistant commissioner)

Donald Swanson (Chief Investigator)

Edmund Reid (head of H-division)

Frederick Abberline (Head of the Ground Investigation)

Other Metro officers involved, to lesser extents -

Walter Dew

George Godley

Joseph Henry Helson

John Neil

William Smith

John Spratling

William Thick

Jack the Ripper was never caught. No one knows who he was.

//Sir William Gull, physician ordinary to the Queen, most certainly was not Jack The Ripper. At the time of the Ripper muders, Dr. Gull was well into his 70's and had just previously suffered a dibiliating stroke that left him partially paralized. He was not a suspect at the time of the murders and to think that he committed these crimes is ridiculous.//

Jack The Ripper's hunting grounds were London's east end commonly refered to as Whitechapel. His victims were homeless, alcoholic prostitutes that haunted the east end making a few pennies the only way they knew how. JTR killed his victims in the dark streets, alleys, or darkened doorways of rundown buildings.

Jack the ripper was a mass murderer who raped and killed prostitutes. He could have been a butcher but his knowledge on the human body (eg: when he took kidneys and dismembered Mary Jane Kelly's torso.) made it obvious that he was more of a doctor. ; )

She was a native of England. Records at the time were very sketchy so it can be difficult to find birth records with a street adress.

no one knows cos he was never caught all we know is , he was called Jack the Ripper.

There is possibilty that Jack had a normal life like some notorious serial killers. On the other hand, he could be a loner like Jeffrey Dahmer.

At least four of Jack the Ripper's victims were known to be prostitutes, but friends of Catherine Eddowes (including a Mr Kelly who might as well have been her husband) never knew her to be one.

Jack the Ripper killed women he found out on the streets, alone. Most women out on the Whitechaple streets alone were probably prostitutes, and prostitutes were easy to talk into secluded spaces, which is what made them ideal targets.

It's impossible to know- nobody knows who he was, so it's not possible to say if he had an accomplice.

//The crime scenes and the conditions of the bodies themselves denote a single killer in the Ripper crimes. There have been so many theories about conspiracy and multiple killers, yet none of them are consistant with the evidence.//

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.

Life in London's east end was fraught with violence. So when thirty-five year old prostitute Martha Tabram was found dead with 39 stab wounds and a slit throat, it was hardly news. Even the murder of Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols didn't raise much of a stir. But with the death of Annie Chapman the whole of London was terrified and the whole world was outraged. Jack The Ripper is probably the world's first serial killer that made headlines throughout the entire world. He was big news. The sad thing is, he is still big news. Most likely because he was never caught, it lends a certain mystery to the legend of this notorious killer.

It's true that most people have their own theories as to the identity of Jack The Ripper, I believe it is pretty safe to say that the Ripper was a man. Women do kill, and there are most definitely female serial killers. But they don't kill like Jack The Ripper. These crimes were committed by a male, most likely under 30 years of age when the crimes began. White, with a social class at least slightly higher than his victims. This was a man that had a great amount of anger and contempt toward women. He would have looked like a regular person, maybe even non-descript, and he would have been able to blend into the east end of London, Whitechapel and Spitalfields. And one thing is for sure, he knew the area. That does not mean he was a resident, but he knew the many streets and alleyways of Whitechapel. A woman roaming the streets with blood all over her clothes would have raised some eyebrows. On the other hand, the east end was full of butchers and furriers not to mention, some doctors, where blood on their clothes was a sign of success. This all points to a male killer. The Jill The Ripper theory makes no sense at all.

There are lots of theories, but the identity of Jack the Ripper remains unknown.

his name was Robert.masterson in Gordon kormen's book titanic his legs failed and he went to NYC to have them fixed but a young stwerd named alfe made him drown and later alfe died of hypothermia.

//Jack The Ripper was not on the Titanic, he continued to kill east end prostitutes until at least 1891 and probably beyond that. Had Gordon Kormen done his research he would have known that.//

There are so many but I will hit on the ones people are most familiar with. No serial killer list would be complete without Jack The Ripper. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, Gary Ridgeway, Richard Ramirez, Son Of Sam (David Berkowitz) and the Zodiac. It's sad to say that with the exception of Jack The Ripper, who was from London, the rest of these killers are American.

Surprisingly, a full understanding of the Ripper's modus operandi was not established until several years ago. The Whitechapel murderer and his victim stood facing each other. When she lifted her skirts, the victim's hands were occupied and was then defenseless. The Ripper seized the women by their throats and strangled them until they were unconscious if not dead. The autopsies constantly revealed clear indications that the victims had been strangled.

In the past some writers believed that the Ripper struck from behind when the victims were bent forward, their skirts hiked up their backsides while waiting to engage in anal sex. This is a very awkward arrangement and the risk that they may scream or elude his clutch's make this unacceptable.

The Ripper then lowered his victims to the ground, their heads to his left. This has been proven by the position of the bodies in relation to walls and fences that show that there was virtually no room for the murderer to attack the body from the left side. No bruising on the back of the heads shows that he lowered the bodies to the ground rather than throwing or letting them fall. Given the inclement weather and filth in the streets it is unacceptable that the prostitutes or their client would have attempted intercourse on the ground.

He cut the throats when the women were on the ground. Splatter stains show that the blood pooled beside or under the neck and head of the victim rather than the front which is where the blood would flow if they had been standing up. In one case blood was found on the fence some 14 inches or so from the ground and opposite the neck wound and this shows that the blood spurted from the body while in the prone position on the ground. This method also prevented the killer from being unduly blood stained.

By reaching over from the victim's right side to cut the left side of her throat, the blood flow would have been directed away from him, which would have reduced the amount of blood in which he would have been exposed. If the victim was already dead before their throats were cut, then the blood spilt would have not been very much.

With the heart no longer beating the blood would not have been "pressurized," so only the blood in the immediate area of the wound would have evacuated gently from the cuts. The Ripper then made his other mutilations, still from the victim's right side, or possibly while straddling over the body at or near the feet. In several cases the legs had been pushed up which would have shortened the distance between the abdomen and the feet. No sign of intercourse was ever detected nor did the Ripper masturbate over the bodies.

Usually he took a piece of the victim's viscera. The taking of a "trophy" is a common practice by modern sexual serial killers. In the opinion of most of the surgeons who examined the bodies, most believed that the killer had to have some degree of anatomical knowledge to do what he did. In one case he removed a kidney from the front rather than from the side, and did not damage any of the surrounding organs while doing so. In another case he removed the sexual organs with one clean stroke of the knife. Given the time circumstances of the crimes (outside, often in near total darkness, keeping one eye out for the approach of others, and under extremely tight time constraints), the Ripper almost certainly would have had some experience in using his knife.

Hundreds of letters were sent to authorities from people claiming to know Jack the Ripper or claiming to be Jack the Ripper. They were all probably fake, but one was sent along with a human kidney and could have actually been from the murderer. Or it could have come from a medical student with a stupid sense of humor.

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Previous Answer: there were 2 fake letters what impersonantors wrote and 1 real one from the real jack the ripper.

Of the hundreds of letters that were sent to Scotland Yard in the wake of the Ripper crimes, only a handful were deemed authentic. But many of those letters were materials that an artist would have. Resin, art pencils, ect. In the 2002 book, Jack The Ripper Case Closed, author Patricia Cornwell had those 'bogus' letters, cards, and drawings analyzed and they were consistant with the Impressionist Victorian painter named Walter R. Sickert. Anyone who knew Sickert would know how much he loved to write letters to friends, buisinesses, and most of the newspapers. He could write dozens of letters just to newspapers in one day.