Jack The Ripper Research Paper

For over a century, the identity of Jack the Ripper has remained a mystery that continues to haunt criminal experts around the world. Jack the Ripper, formally known as the Whitechapel Fiend, committed gruesome murders in the year 1888 around Whitechapel, London. The killer was never caught and many men are still suspects today. Among these men are a traveling doctor, a boot-maker and a Polish immigrant. Francis Tumblety was a traveling doctor who sold Indian herbs throughout North America (Douglas 75). Tumblety was extremely misogynistic and many of his acquaintances referred to him as a “woman-hating quack.” In fact, he did hate women, especially prostitutes, and all of the Ripper’s victims were prostitutes. In 1913, a letter written by …show more content…
Kosminski just so happened to live in the heart of Whitechapel in 1888. His home was also close to the site of one of the Ripper murders (“Jack the Ripper Suspects”). Kosminski’s family believed that he suffered from mental illness, and they eventually sent him to a mental institution but not until after the Ripper murders ended. Chief constable of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Melville Macnaghten, believed Kosminski to be Jack the Ripper. Although Macnaghten was not directly involved in the Ripper case, he had access to the records. He wrote a confidential report that listed three prime suspects, one of which was Kosminski. Macnaghten was not the only one who believed Kosminski was Jack the Ripper. Sir Robert Anderson, Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, claimed Kosminski was Jack the Ripper in his memoir. Due to the lack of evidence against Kosminksi, he was not arrested but kept under surveillance from 1888 to 1891 (“Was Jack the Ripper...”). Kosminski was never put on trial or arrested as a suspect in the Ripper murders, but he still remains a person of interest as Jack the