Jack The Ripper Victims

Jack the Ripper terrorized the streets of Whitechapel, London in the 1880s. It was a time of poverty and brutality. The streets were dim and the crime rate was high; the citizens became alcoholic prostitutes. There are five women linked to Jack the Ripper named Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Jack the Ripper’s victims were all linked due to the type of deaths occurred.
43 year old Mary Ann Nichols was the first victim of Jack the Ripper. She was an alcoholic prostitute. She was found dead in the street mutilated with her sexual organs removed. It is also said that she was strangled. The second victim was 41 year old widow Annie Chapman. She had lost her job recently and became a new …show more content…
The five are believed to have been killed by the same person. All five were murdered at night or early morning and happened almost every week. Mary Ann Nichols was found dead in the early morning on August 31, 1880 at about 3:40 am by men on their way to work. She was lying on the ground with her skirt pulled up to her waist, throat deeply slit, and abdomen partially ripped open. Her time of death was approximately thirty minutes before she was found. Annie Chapman was reported being with man on 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields and 5:30 a.m. on September 8, 1888. Another witness said that she was seen with a man against a fence approximately twenty minutes before she was found dead. Annie was found dead with her throat cut like Mary's. Her abdomen ripped entirely and her reproductive organs torn out,but still attached placed on her right shoulder. An autopsy later revealed that the killer took some parts of her reproductive organs. Next, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were killed on September 30, 1888. Catherine was found with the similar slit throat. . Catherine Eddowes was found 45 minutes after Stride’s death. Stride was found Dutfield's Yard and Eddowes was found in Mitre Square in the City of London. Eddowes had a slit throat and …show more content…
Kelly was murdered in her house at 26 Dorset Street. Earlier that day she was hanging out with a friend of hers and she also had to pay rent that day. Dr. Thomas Bond, a police surgeon, said, “The body was lying naked in the middle of the bed... inclined to to the left side of the bed…” He goes on noting that her right arm was slightly “abducted” from the body. In great detail he describes how body parts were removed and replaced. For example, her uterus, kidney, and one breast was found underneath her head. “The face was gashed in all directions, the nose, cheeks, eyebrows, and ears being partly removed.” The low part of her right lung was broken and torn while the other lung was intact. Her heart was