Unidentified Serial Killers: The Zodiac Killer

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Sydney Dingley
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Unidentified Serial Killers Inside the minds and lives of serial killers can be one of the most fascinating places to be. A serial killer is defined as being someone who has committed at least three or more murders over the span of more than a month. Every killer’s story is different, but there are definitely similarities. Jack The Ripper. The world’s first labeled serial killer. The Ripper got his name for how he murdered and left his victims. He mutilated and ripped their bodies apart. The killings had started in 1888 in and around London’s Whitechapel district. The exact body count of The Ripper is unknown, but there were a total of eleven slayings in Whitechapel
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He strangled her, slit her throat, gashed her abdomen open, threw her intestines around the room, and removed her reproductive system. He was arrested by the police and was sent to be hung. One of his friends made the point to the police that maybe he was just mentally ill. They had James tested by a psychiatrist and was found to be mentally …show more content…
Soon after he broke out of the insane asylum is when the notorious “Jack The Ripper” murders had started. The way James had killed his wife and how The Ripper takes his victims are pretty much exactly the same. At the same time across seas, the Chief of Police in New York calls out The Ripper and say, “If The Ripper ever comes to New York, I will be able to catch him in a few days.”
Soon after, the following letter got sent to the NYPD. “Capt. Ryan,
You think that “Jack The Ripper” is in England, but he is not, I am right here and I expect to kill somebody by Thursday next, and so get ready for me with your pistols, but I have my knife that has done more than your pistols. Next thing you will hear of some woman dead.
Yours truly,
Jack the Ripper”
Two months after the Whitechapel Murders cease, a prostitute is killed in an alleyway in New York. Her esophagus was broken from being strangled, her throat was cut, her guts were ripped out of her body, and her reproductive system was missing. The most eerie thing about the kill was the message written in the prostitutes blood on the alleyway wall. “Come catch me,

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