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    There are many people in this world who commit horrible things in 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…

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    think about. Jack the Ripper is a famous serial killer who was never caught because he was so good at being under the radar. His reign or terror lasted nearly 12 weeks in 1888 from August to November in the end of London.(JackTheRipper.org #1) The east end of London was notorious for being a bad part of the neighborhood and that was where lots of crime occurred. Jack the Ripper was never caught or prosecuted.(bbc.co.uk/history #2) In fact no one truly knows 100% sure who Jack the Ripper even was…

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    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…

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    months after the Ripper committed suicide, saying, 'I have a very clear idea who the Ripper was', adding however, that he would never reveal it, saying, 'I have destroyed all my documents and there is now no record of the secret information which came into my possession at one time or another'. Unfortunately, the secret information Sir Melville Macnaghten claimed to possess, which caused him to favor Druitt, above…

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    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…

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    The Murder of Mary Jane Kelly Quite possibly one of the most well-known serial killers, Jack the Ripper murdered 5 prostitutes in Whitechapel, England. The final and most gruesome murder was a young prostitute named Mary Jane Kelly. For well over a century, people have done everything they can to uncover the identity of the infamous murderer. There have been dozens of theories of who the legendary serial killer was over the past 129 years. Ranging from him being a slaughterman or a surgeon to…

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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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    Why was Jack the ripper never found and never caught, it was because he always killed at night. While nobody was around her murdered people in alley ways and dark corners. He was a mince and he was a brutal. He was a not caught because of the facts and evident’s they had, was not that great. All the recourses they had were not as good as they are today. If they had the things we had today, they would have fond him. Then they would have found him and he would have been put in jail or gone…

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    Jack the Ripper was a serial killer from Whitechapel, London, known for the brutal murder of five prostitutes in 1888. He has become known as the first serial killer. His murders are probably the most reputable crimes in history. The killer has yet to bet identified and the case is a still a mystery to this day. Multiple witnesses have stated that they have seen him, although he was never been captured. His crime spree was unprecedented in Britain and nothing like it had ever happened. Police…

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    Whitechapel London: A Jack the Ripper Adaptation I will adapt and combine the two Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, into a drama set in the 19th-century Victoria-era. The narrative itself will take place between August and November of 1888 and center around the historical serial murderer Jack the Ripper. The adaptation will be a collection of narrative poetry broken up into five chronologically parts, each labeled with the dates and names of the Jack the Ripper…

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