Jack the Ripper fiction

Seven women (presumably more) were brutally mutilated on the streets of Whitechapel in 1888. They were all women of the lower class, prostitutes, and found themselves alone in the night when the Ripper chose them as his victims. Only eight months elapsed during these gruesome killings, and the case was almost forgotten by the press by the beginning of 1889. In the Whitechapel murders casebook, the last report was written on October 18, 1896 by Detective Chief Inspector Henry Moore, regarding the reception of another “Ripper” letter claiming Jack was returning. Based on his investigation of the correspondence, Moore did not believe the letter to have any connection to the previous letters or merit regarding the Ripper case. The police’s hunt for the Ripper was…

First, the story-like retelling of the murders made these news stories more interesting to read. Several researchers have described the news articles of this time as reading similarly to popular fiction stories. A newspaper by the name of Evening News even published an article titled, “What Edgar Poe might have thought of the Murders” (34), in which they compared these real life tragedies to the Edgar Poe’s fictional story, “The Murders in the Rogue Morgue”. Article such as this often drifted…

The Evening News published several pages on the murders and added their own interpretation of the murderer at large: “Sexual insanity, however, is, on the face of the facts, the only intelligible motive of the murder.” This is one of the few instances that the press suggests the crimes being committed for sexual fulfillment, rather than just insanity. The Evening News suggests the Ripper is not only a lunatic, but one with a perverted sexual lust that is only satisfied through the murder and…

the middle ages by the Inquisition to psychologically analyze the beliefs of heretics in the 12th century. In the article, “Racial Misuse of Profiling,” written by Patrick Ibe, from the Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science, discusses that the beginning of this fashion of profiling dates back to the 1880’s when two physicians named George Phillip and Thomas Bond used clues to make assumptions about London’s infamous killer, Jack the Ripper. At that time, DNA usage and forensic…

II. The Press When the press covered the Ripper killings they used cultural fantasies and Victorian anxieties to their advantage by challenging the police and fascinating the public. They wove a tale of sex, blood, and murder, which would forever change murder in the news. This sensationalism operated on an emotional level, appealing to the morals of the reader. David Sachsman and David Bulla summarize sensationalism in the press in their book Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging,…

life. Some get caught and some keep their secrets to their graves. Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who was never found. Till this day no one knows who he was. The BTK killer or BTK strangler as he was called, was a man who FBI discovered, and was apprehended for the gruesome crimes he committed. Although these two serial killers are different they have many things in common too. For example they both had hatred towards women so they only targeted women and they would also send letters after…

The first important factor that needs to be consider when investigating Jack the Ripper case is the location and background of the community that the murders were found in. The area that the murders were found was in Whitechapel which is in the east end of London. Whitechapel was an area of poverty in London. William Rubinstein writes, “Whitechapel . . . was synonymous with urban poverty and squalor. . . According to Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London, (1891-1903), the…

Historically, the identity of the infamous killer of more than five prostitutes in the East End of London during 1888 remains a mystery (Jack the Ripper Bio). Evidence suggest, that the person behind these “Jack the Ripper murders was either a doctor or butcher. Based on the findings the weapon used on the bodies showed knowledge of understandings of the human anatomy. For instance, George Hutchinson, who witness the interaction of Mary Kelly and Jack the Ripper’s shortly before her killing.…

The title of the book I read is The Madness Underneath. It was written by Maureen Johnson. This book was published by The Penguin Group, and was originally published on February 26, 2013. There are two hundred ninety pages. The Madness Underneath was written by a New York Times Bestselling Author. The setting of this story is London at Wexford University. It is always raining and is not very nice. In the book it takes place in present time. The narrator of the story is the main character. Her…

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…