Reasons For The Murders Of Jack The Ripper

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In 1888, the infamous serial killer, Jack the Ripper, terrorized Whitechapel, a town in East London, for eleven months with a series of five, possibly eleven, murders. There were six other horrendous murders that came before the official five victims of Jack. There were many suspects during the Ripper investigation, but the police believed that either Joseph Barnet or Robert D’Onston was responsible. Jack was never identified or arrested because a year later, the murders stopped suddenly. The identification of who Jack was and what happened to him has remained one of history’s most famous unsolved murders for over a century.
The first murder was committed on August 31, 1888, in Whitechapel, a city in the East end of London. Author Jessica

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