Jack the Ripper

We can't put a Modern Eye Toward an Old Investigation. The Police back them were not complete idiots. The problem with this case is that investigators weren't familiar with murders with no aparent reasons. Is not the same catching a murdering husband because of infidelity and so on.

Back then, there was no fingerprinting, footprinting or DNA analisys. The only thing they had was the work of a beat policeman.

The murders were covered by every major and minor newpaper in England, including the tabloids. The Ripper was big news in other countries as well. Americans were fascinated with the case and anxiously awaited news of the next victim.

He was never apprehended and he didn't assault his victims in a sexually way. Syphilis or other diseases, were unknown to the police.

As far as anyone can tell, Mary Kelly never had any children. Historical accounts give her age as 24-26, and she had been married and was a widow. Her husband being killed in an explosion when she was still a teenager. Life can be hard for a woman alone in the 19th century, and it was for Kelly. Her life was spiraling downward.

She may have had hopes that someday her life would be better, that maybe included a husband and children but she never got the chance. Sometimes that's the saddest part of murder. The wasted opportunity.

This is not in any way a complete list, but it's a good start. Most of these portrayals have been on film, several on stage.

Ian Holm-British

Ewen Solon-NZ

James Spader

David Warner-British

Armand Assanti-Fr.

Michael Gothard

Peter O'Toole

Jack Palance-American

Michael Wilding

Hugh Jackman-Austrialia

Boris Karoff

Klaus Kinski

Sterling Hayden

Ivan Novello

I gave nationalities when available

Jack the Ripper, sliced his victims open and removed some of the their internal organs, he literally 'ripped' his victims apart.

The last purported letter from Jack the Ripper was received on 18 October, 1888, by George Lusk, newly appointed Chair of the Mile End Vigilance Committee. This is the infamous 'From Hell' letter, accompanied by half of a human kidney. The authenticity of the letter is questionable, and has been discounted by most students of the case, as well as Chief Inspector Henry Moore and Charles Warren on 18 October, 1888.

It was Moore's belief that none of the handwriting taken from the three letters purported to be from the Whitechapel murderer matched.

The claim made that the letter revealed information known only to the killer is largely questionable. The letter was postmarked on a Monday, the same morning, though much later, of the murders.

The writer's claim that number one 'squealed a bit', is not corroborated and could very easily have been a lucky guess on the writer's part. Considering that the murder took place in a yard, with an open door, inside of which was a woman doing her evening chores who claimed to have heard nothing calls this statement into immediate doubt.

The claim that the killer would 'clip the ears off number two' to send to the police is also factually inaccurate. Kate Eddowes, whom was the only Ripper victim besides Mary Kelly to be facially mutilated, had no damage to the ears; nor was an attempt made to remove them.

The examination of the kidney was reported to have found it to be afflicted with Bright's Disease, or Ginny kindey, and that it belonged to a woman. This is obvious misreporting. Openshaw, the doctor that examined the kidney, stated in his report that it was clearly a human kidney preserved in spirits but that the differences between a male and female kidney, especially after a slight amount of atrophying, were undetectable with the small amount of the organ presented.

It is likely that all three letters were hoaxes, and ones in poor taste to boot.

It is a district in England where jack the ripper was from. later the band Whitechapel used it as a name.

Jack the Ripper's reasons for discontinuing his murders are unknown. Many theories have been put forth, such as that he committed suicide, that he fled the country, or that he was arrested and/ or institutionalized for other offenses. This last theory is quite probably the most likely.

Because he was never caught it's hard to tell how he prepared. Jack The Ripper has characteristics of organized and unorganized killers. He brought his own weapon (organized) but his victims seemed to have been chosen at random or with little planning (unorganized). This is common among serial criminals. They can be both organized and unorganized. For law enforcement the orgainzed is the hardest to catch. They plan every detail and leave little evidence.

Jack The Ripper's MO (modus operandi) was cutting the throats of his victims and then mutilating them, and in some victims he took internal organs.

2 were doctors

The actual identify of Jack the Ripper is still unknown. There have been dozens of individuals suggested as the killer. While Mary Pearcy, who was later convicted for murdering her husband and child, is a possibility, there's no real evidence definitively linking her with the Ripper murders.

By 1901 the murders committed by "Jack the Ripper" were slowly fading from the memories of the East End inhabitants. The murder of Elizabeth Roberts on the 26th November 1898 by her sister Kate Marshall brought "The Ripper's" name back into the public's attention only because Elizabeth Roberts was murdered in the room directly above 13 Millers Court, Dorset Street, where Mary Kelly was butchered on the 9th November 1888.

Dorset Street the scene of the last murder attributed to "Jack the Ripper", had changed little if at all by 1901, "The Cardiff Weekly News" of Saturday 1st June 1901 was of the opinion:

Dorset-street is a narrow, dirty street leading off Commercial-street, Spitalfields, and is one of those sordid thoroughfares which might with advantage to the community be swept out of existence.

The crimes of the killer known as Jack The Ripper was like a beacon shining brightly on the living conditions in London's impoverished east end known as Whitechapel. Those living in London in the Victorian era were most likely vaguely aware but tried hard not to think about the hard-scrabble life on the other side of their city. Due to the brutality of the mutilations the local press picked up on what was going on and that led to world-wide exposure, not just the crimes themselves but the victims and their struggle to survive in this hostile urban environment. Change did come, but slowly. Slumlords were made to improve their buildings and many were forced to tear their buildings down. Of course others were built but with higher rents. Laws concerning sanitation and sewage were addressed. Today Whitechapel barely resembles what it once was. But there are still several of the Ripper's crime scenes intact. These being tourist's attractions, just another stop on Ripper walks.

Yes he did. The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death, on 22 January 1901. Jack the ripper committed his crimes in 1888.

According to the book Jack The Ripper:Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell, Abberline never gave an opinion as to who he thought JTR might be. Her thought was that possibly adding more theories to a case that was drowning in theories was where Abberline drew the line. For Abberline, on a personal level, he was most likely greatly disappointed that he was never able to detect the Ripper.

to many irish people moved to london then he learnd his daughter was dieing because her major organs where failing so he killed healthy people and took part of the organs of each victum to put in his daughter this was easy for him because he is a surgan

London had many murders in the year 1888 but the ones that have been atributed to Jack The Ripper if you include the murder on Apri 5, 1888 of Emily Smith the total comes to eight. Most experts now believe that the killer didn't stop with Mary Kelly in November 1888, but may have gone on until 1891 and possibly beyond.

Victim selection can be difficult to determine if the killer is never caught. But when looking a the photos taken of his victims it is clear that they are similar in appearance and age. There is the theory that he hated his mother and was in fact killing his own mother over and over. But over a century after the fact it is just a theory. As with Ted Bundy, who prefered college aged brunettes, most of the Ripper's victims were either short and overweight or underweight. It is possible he was unaware that his victims resembled each other.

There are 5 generally accepted victims, this has been debated because Marie Kelly, the last victim was killed indoors. Jack the Ripper's MO was to kill prostitutes by cutting their throat from left to right and then he would mutilate the body. The mutilation was thought by doctors to have some medical knowledge because the Ripper used his knife swiftly and carried out dissections although other doctors disagreed. Jack could have also been into death fetishism as it was said that he had removed a uterus from one victim and a kidney from another.

It already has. Author Patricia Cornwell did extensive DNA testing of many of the Ripper letters including the 3 that are universally accepted as authentic. Comparing those results with her favorite suspect, English impressionist artist, Walter R. Sickert, found the DNA %99 inclusive that Sickert and JTR share the same mitochondrial DNA sequences. In short, %99 of the population can be excluded from these DNA sequences, making Sickert the probable writer of the JTR letters deemed authentic, or from the killer.

When compared to the other evidence in the case, such as watermarked stationery, of which only 24 sheets were ever cut,* and the fact that the criminal profile fits that of the artist Sickert, it makes a very compelling case of Sickert as Jack The Ripper.

*Cornwell's paper experts found two Ripper letters and three Sickert letters that were from a batch of specially cut stationery, of which only 24 sheets were ever made.

Jack the Ripper was never caught and identified so there is no way to know the identity of his comrades. From the crime scenes and nature of the murders it is very unlikely that the Ripper had any help. The majority of serial killers work alone, the Ripper was almost certainly alone in his crimes.

No. Kasminsky was not the Ripper, in fact he was never even a serious suspect.

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.