A Comparison Of Jack The Ripper And Anthony Sowell

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Jack the Ripper and Anthony Sowell. Two serial killers very alike and very different in their own right. Both targeted disturbed and desperate women in their cities. Police would find Jack’s victims and have no leads. The still have none to this very day. Police would visit Sowell’s home every 90 days. They’d see blood on his walls and smell something of rotting flesh, yet never filed reports or investigated for two years. Both these men killed mercilessly, yet still differ at a methodical standpoint. Although Anthony Sowell and Jack the Ripper targeted similar victims and had similar brutal motives, their methods of killing, torture, disposal and capture differs greatly.

Anthony Sowell, the most infamous man in Cleveland crime history, was

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