Jack the Ripper fiction

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…

Criminal Profiling is a technique whereby the probable characteristics of a criminal offender or offenders are predicted based on the behaviors exhibited in the commission of a crime. The job of a criminal profiler is very crucial in homicide cases. It helps the law enforcement to find and arrest the killer by knowing little details that determine possible suspects for the crime. Criminal profilers investigating serial killers have always tried to formulate some idea of the characteristics of…

Jack the Ripper. 2014. “The ‘Dear Boss’ Letter.” In Voices of Victorian England: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, edited by John A. Wagner, 244-245. Santa Barbara: Greenwood: An Imprint of ABC-CLIO. This source is extremely useful because the Jack the Ripper murders are one of the most infamous crimes of the whole era, and this supposedly was the first letter that he sent to the newspapers about his murders. This letter is extremely useful in the paper because it provides an example…

Kelly seemed to be the final victim of Jack. The murder took place in Whitechapel, London. However, for the other victims there death took place in different parts of London. His victims were all prostitutes making it easy for him to pick them up. Jack got the name “the ripper” for that being said that he rips his victims apart, making him the prime suspect in Kelly’s death. Her death became more important…

Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H.Holmes, was known as one of the first serial killers in the states or some could even say he was one of the first killers that genuinely defined the word. Holmes was at large around the same time as Jack The Ripper. He committed his crimes on all people regardless of age, gender, relationship status or status in life. No one was safe from the acts he committed in the mid 1800’s. To give a little light on who Holmes is, He was born in New Hampshire in…

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…

encounters with prostitutes. This practice caused him much ridicule and the risk of possible scandal throughout his political career. Some writers have suggested that he took this reforming zeal a little further than he perhaps should, and was in fact Jack the Ripper. In 1888 at the time of the Whitechapel murders, Gladstone was almost 80 years old and half-blind from an unsuccessful cataract operation. Gladstone died from cancer at the age of 88 on 19 May 1898 at Hawarden Castle Flint, and is…

Jack the Ripper: Unsolved Murder? The News reports murder stories all the time, but the story of the first recorded serial killer that was never caught is older than anyone alive. Today the police can solve a murder in under a month usually, but the Jack the Ripper case has never been solved after one hundred and twenty years. Jack the Ripper was a serial killer in Whitechapel, London, during 1888 that murdered five prostitutes, removed their organs, and never had his identity fully confirmed…

heard of” (Cobb). The Hammersmith Nude Murderer, or also known as Jack the Stripper was a serial killer in the 1960s. This infamous murderer got their name for being very similar to Jack the Ripper for the simple fact that both murderers killed prostitutes. They were also similar for the fact that both caused terror in London, though their killing methods were different they were both feared by the public. The famous murderer known as “Jack the Stripper” killed six to possibly eight women…

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…