Jack the Ripper fiction

Serial killers have many distinctive characteristics about themselves. The killer can be male or female. Arthur Shawcross is one of the famous male serial killers. Researchers study Arthur Shawcross in three areas: personality profile perspective, serial murder profile, and the serial killer’s seven rituals of murder. Criminal personality profile is identifying the offender’s characteristics and infers personality and physical traits based on the crime scene and victim interaction. Profiling is…

murders go unsolved and killers escape. Can you imagine the difficult task authorities faced when Jack the Ripper loomed large in London? In the fall of 1888, otherwise know as the “fall of terror,” a series of horrendous murders occurred in Whitechapel, the east end of London. Whitechapel was known to be a poor, crime ridden part of the city, making it a safe haven for any criminal. Except Jack the Ripper, as he is popularly known, was no ordinary…

documentary, ‘The Diary of Jack the Ripper Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1993)’ is a documentary about a diary/journal that was discovered in 1992 by Michael Barrett. It is mentioned at the beginning of this documentary that although the author was not named, the evidence clearly suggests the writer of this journal was the‘Liverpudlian cotton merchant’ James Maybrick. At the time when this journal emerged, many questions arose; surrounding the new identity of Jack the Ripper who some historians began…

Abstract This case study examines Jack the Ripper and the horrible acts of violence he committed in the East End of London during 1888 where five women were murdered. These murders received so much media coverage that what would have been the terrible tragedy of five people being murdered became one of the most famous series of murders and the killer became one of the most terrifying of all time. During this case study, I will describe some current techniques that could have been used in the…

Topic: Psychological Profiling General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about psychological profiling. Central Idea Statement/Thesis: I will discuss (1) what psychological profiling is, (2) the profiling of Jack the Ripper, and (3) the most important uses of psychological profiling. Introduction I. [Attention Getter] Which well-known murderer is not defined as a serial killer? (Pictures of known offenders) II. [Topic Justification] Knowing…

The attempted murder of Marc Schiller was very intense and very brutal. Lugo and his gang attempted eight times to capture Marc Schiller and every time they failed to kill him. "Mark Schiller was the perfect victim because he was involved in medical fraud, something that was illegal," said Levine (Troy Roberts). Schiller had been Tased, burned, beaten, pistol-whipped. When the gang was done with him, they made him wash down sleeping pills with liquor, put him behind the wheel and rammed it into…

series of brutal murders in 1888, caused by the infamous Jack the Ripper, who was an unknown serial killer. In this story, there were also gruesome murders that took place in London, mimicking the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. The point of view in this story is first person and is told by the main character. There are also short documents throughout the story told by different people to help…

been murdered (Rubinstein 3). While Druitt will stay as a prime suspect for the identity of Jack the Ripper, due in part by MacNaghten, he is one with little evidence (Rubinstein 4). Meanwhile, according to John George Littlechild, chief inspector and head of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard from 1883 until 1893, had asserted that American Doctor Francis Tumblety was a major suspect of being Jack the Ripper. Tumblety was Irish born in approximately 1833 and was the youngest of three…

killer, Jack the Ripper, terrorized Whitechapel, a town in East London, for eleven months with a series of five, possibly eleven, murders. There were six other horrendous murders that came before the official five victims of Jack. There were many suspects during the Ripper investigation, but the police believed that either Joseph Barnet or Robert D’Onston was responsible. Jack was never identified or arrested because a year later, the murders stopped suddenly. The identification of who Jack was…

We’d had plans. We’d had the element of surprise. And stil , we’d fal en short. It was as if Samuel had purposely al owed us to get closer and closer, only to outwit us—just like his alter ego, Jack the Ripper, had done to the Metropolitan Police when he sent them on a cat-and-mouse chase through London. I ran through the city streets at vampire speed, trying to listen for shouts, scuffles, even labored breathing—anything that would lead me to my brother…