Whitechapel

rumors that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and letters from a writer or writers claiming to be the murderer were sent to the media, and Scotland Yard. The "From Hell" letter, was received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, included half of a preserved human kidney. Because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public increasingly believed that the murders were done by…