Jack The Ripper Compare And Contrast

Jack the Ripper was a vicious murderer who only murdered female prostitutes. He slit their throats and then would cut their abdomen open and take body parts for a “keep sake”. The two men who were considered Jack the Ripper were Dr. Cream and Frances Craig. Jack the Ripper made many murders that no one could ever solve. Some people say that Jack was one person or state certain people but later proven that they did not do it. Both of the men had a strong hatred for prostitutes. Both men worked together to kill the women. Jack was never caught doing the murders. They killed five female prostitutes and killed them all the same way. They both had a hatred for women who were prostitutes, they both had wives who secretly returned back to prostitution while still being married. All of the murders happened between Liverpool Station, Whitechapel Station, and Shoreditch High Station (Barrett 3). Some say that they did not know if they would ever find out who Jack was. Many sources mention suspects’ names but later mention that …show more content…
Dr. Cream gave the women poison to slowly kill them, Frances Craig told everyone he was Jack before he was hanged. Both of these men lived close to the murder scenes. The murders they performed on their wives were very similar to the Ripper murders (Johnson 1). When the men killed the women that they did, they kept a “keep sake” or a “trophy” which was their inside body parts. They kept the parts that were in the abdominal areas. The 126-year-old-shawl was connected to the Whitechapel murders, it was found to of had blood on it. The letters that were sent to the news station started with the words “Dear Boss”, and Dr. Weston-Davies said Craig was the writer of the letters. They had to of had medical knowledge because they removed one of the victims heart from the diaphragm. They also had removed some sexual organs with one clean stroke with a knife (Barbee