Jack The Ripper Essay, Research Paper

It all started in the East End of London in 1888, from Augest 7 till November 10.

All killings occured within one mile area and involved the districts of Whitechapel,

Spitalfields, Aldgate, and the city of London proper. The man I am refering to is no other

then the natorious Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel, or the Leather Apron.

Jack the Ripper is signifacant and popular, not just because he was a serial killer,

but because he was the first to appear in a large metropolis at the time when the general

puplic had become literate and the press was a force for social change. The Ripper

apperaed when there was a tremendous political turmoil and both leberals and social

reformers, also the Irish Home rule partisans tried to use the crimes for their own ends.

Its hard to beleive that this has only happened twelve years ago. Everyday there would

be an editorial or a chronicle in the newspaper about the activities of the Ripper or the

police. Many of you remember this and reading about the Ripper and know what I am

talking about. The press was a big part of the whole case because we informed the public

of the killings and it seeemed that this was all new to everyone only because it was the

most publisized case. This type of thing has happened before, but no one knew about it

and now you know the real world. The press had created the ?boogey man? and many

myths and puzzles for the public.

The Ripper was thought to know a great deal about anatomy because the body?s

were slashed at the throat and the way the body?s were mutelated suggest that. The

victims all prostitutes all slashed at eh throat and mutilated. The body?s were found out

in the open were everyone could see them. Many officers and junior officers beleive

there are anywhere from five to nine murders by the Ripper.

The Victims:

1) Mary Ann Nichols, murdered Friday, Augest 31, 1888.

2) Annie Chapman, murdered Saturday, September 8, 1888.

3) Elizebeth Stride, murdered Sunday, September 30, 1888.

4) Catherine Eddowes, murdered same day.

5) Mary Jane Kelly, murdered Friday, November 9, 1888.

How the Ripper operated was by approaching the women he would stand facing

his victim. When the victim lifted her skrit he would strangle her until unconsciencness

or death. Then the Ripper would lay the victim on the ground and cut the left side of the

throat avoiding blood being spurted on him, when he would stand on the right side. After

that he would start his mutilations. The Ripper would sometimes take a kidney from the

front or the viscera, and in one case he took the sexual organs with one clean swipe. This

indicates that the murderer had some degree of anatomical knowledge. There was never

any sign of intercourse with any the victims.

The letters the Ripper Supposovly wrote were thought to have been written by a

journalist named Tom Bulling because the letters written came after the day of the

double murder. The last letter was not a letter, but a package with half a kidney from the

victim Catherine Eddowes.

The suspects:

1) 31 year old M.J. Druitt, who was a doctor and committed suicide a month after the

last murder. The only one to beleive he was the murderer was Sir Melville Macnaghten

the cheif Constable who wrote his memorandaa from memory and most of his facts were

wrong. The drowned doctor way have been the Ripper.

2) Fredrick Abberline a crack detective at eh ground level thought it was the multiple

wife poisoner Severin Klosowki, but like Macnaghten no one beleived him.

3) The name of Macnaghten’s second suspect was confirmed as Aaron Kosminiski.

Who was a Polish jew put in an insane asylum and heard voices, but the facts are twisted

on this also.

You have heard the facts and learned all about the Ripper and the murders, do u

think you know who it is. What if the ripper was one of those three supests or what if it

wasen?t, what if the Ripper if still out there, looking for his next victim.