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    Jack The Ripper Assignment Suspect - Montague John Druitt. By Luke Ryan "Jack the Ripper" is the popular name given to a serial killer who killed 5 prostitutes in the East End of London, in the district of Whitechapel, in 1888. The 5 prostitutes were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. The name “Jack the Ripper” originates from a letter written by someone who claimed to be the killer published at the time of the murders. He was also…

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    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…

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    Jack the Ripper has never been caught and was known to kill girls in Whitechapel in London 1888 during October(jack the rip.). The thing about him was that his murders happened 1 mile away from each other.There was over a hundred suspects for the Ripper , but I gathered three. That I thought were the best. George Chapman, Aaron Kosminski ,and Dr. John Williams. A lot of people thought he study the human anatomy because of the clean cuts he left on his victims. It was said to believe he committed…

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    Jack The Ripper Identity

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    area already heavily entrenched in violent crime, was the sheer brutality of the homicides. Inside the boundary lines of a single square mile, a number of prostitutes were strangled and mutilated by an unidentified serial killer known to the public as Jack the Ripper. Despite the efforts of the Metropolitan Police to find and capture the assailant, the true identity of the Ripper is as much of a mystery today as it was in 1888. Speculative theories concerning the identity of the Whitechapel…

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    abdominal mutilations and some of their organs had been removed. This was the most vicious string of murders that London had ever seen. The killer, Jack the ripper, was originally called “the white chapel murderer” or “leather apron” and didn’t actually get the name Jack the ripper until letters were received by someone that was claiming to have committed the murders but there is no actual proof that the letters were written by him and it is actually…

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    Jack The Ripper Story

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    story of Jack the Ripper was always piqued the interest due to the ambiguous personality and the unsolved case. Jack the ripper had committed five murders, all of women between 25 and 40 years old, but the most horrifying thing was the mean by which he killed his victims, as he used to remove their organs. As a result people were panicked ending in attacking on everyone matched the description, especially of someone who carried a bag. Soon enough the police accused two person for being Jack the…

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    Throughout the centuries, Jack the Ripper’s identity has remained a mystery. Ever since the idea of Jack the Ripper has been thought of, suspicions has risen about numerous people. Today, there are over one hundred Jack the Ripper suspects. Lewis Carroll, famous for his work of “Alice in Wonderland”, is one of the hundreds that have been accused of being the murderous Jack the Ripper. The mystery began when Jack the Ripper, an unidentified serial killer, made his first killing around the…

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    Was Jack the Ripper really Jack the Ripper? Or was it someone else? Ripper was a serial killer and mutilated at least five prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 and because no one arrested or tried for murders, crime buffs are still fascinated with Jack the Ripper case more than 115 years later. To criminally profile the man named Jack the Ripper, there is evidence of his types of victims, what he did to his victims and the possible suspects to his true identity. The women experts really…

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    Jack The Ripper Theory

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    Jack The Ripper Name: Course: Institution: Tutor: Date: Introduction: the identity of Jack the Ripper The Whitechapel area of London was a crime scene between 6th August and 9th November 1888. Five women who were prostitutes were secretly murdered and one of them mutilated. Mary AnnNicholes was murdered on 31st August, Annie Chapman, on 8th September, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes on 30th September and Mary Jane Kelly on 9th November 1888 (Harrison, 2010). Being…

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    Whitechapel London had a series of grisly murders that were committed by a serial killer that would later be labeled as Jack the Ripper. The murders took place from August 31st, 1888 - November 9th, 1888. In total 5 prostitutes were murdered in the area of Whitechapel, to this day, no one knows who committed these horrific murders. Which brings a lot of speculation on who Jack the Ripper was, many theorized that the killers were suspects Francis Tumblety, George Chapman, and James Kelly. Of…

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