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Jack the Ripper is possibly incorrectly described in Wikipedia. People wrote about the maniac, not seeing before them the acts of interrogation of all participants in those events. We will show everything as it happened.
In 1888, London's East End witnessed a series of brutal murders of prostitutes attributed to a maniac nicknamed Jack the Ripper. To this day, these crimes have remained unsolved. Was Jack the Ripper a maniac surgeon? Or an adherent of ritual murders? Or maybe a mentally ill member royal family?..
AT late XIX century british empire experienced its heyday. Her possessions were scattered all over the globe They were inhabited by people of various races and religions. But at the center of this vast empire was a place where, as journalists wrote, the sun never set. The East End of London was a disgrace to Britain and the entire civilized world. People lived here in poverty and squalor. Child mortality in the area British capital doubled average level around the country.
Prostitution and unbridled drunkenness, sexual molestation of minors, murder and fraud have become common features of the local way of life. All this turned out to be a well-manured breeding ground for a killer whose black fame has reached our days. The streets and back streets of the East End became the scene of his bloody deeds.
The crimes of Jack the Ripper are incomparable, of course, with those massive horrors that the twentieth century presented to mankind. He killed, however, with savage cruelty, only five women. But in this case, the question is who the perpetrator was. There are serious suspicions that Jack the Ripper was a member of the upper strata of British society. It was these suspicions that aroused so much public interest in the Beast of the East End.
First victim of Jack the Ripper
While Jack the Ripper went down in crime history as a vile killer, his dark hold on the East End was short-lived. He struck the first blow on August 31, 1888. Mary Ann Nichols, a prostitute who traded in the Whitechapel area, was brutally murdered that day. Her corpse was found in a labyrinth of dark streets. Forty-two-year-old "Pretty Polly" was known as a drunkard and frequenter of all local eateries. With a high degree of probability, the police assumed such a scenario of the crime. "Pretty Polly" addressed a tall passer-by with the usual question on such occasions: "Looking for fun, mister?" Most likely, she asked for four pence for her services. This measly amount was enough to pay for a place in a rooming house and get a few sips of cheap gin.
As soon as the man pulled her into dark place, the fate of the prostitute was sealed. A hand reached out to her throat, and in a couple of seconds it was cut from ear to ear. “Only a crazy person could do something like that! exclaimed the police doctor. “I have never seen anything like it. Only a person who knows well how to handle a knife could slaughter her in this way. Since the murders in the beggar and dangerous area East End were a common occurrence, the police did not attach to this case special significance. But only for one week. On September 8, "Dark Annie" Chapman, a forty-seven-year-old prostitute, seriously ill with tuberculosis, was found stabbed to death near the Spitelfiod market.
And although there were no signs of rape, the nature of the murder, as in the first case, indicated that the perpetrator cut and gutted the victim under the influence of strong sexual arousal. In addition, the dismemberment of the body of "Dark Annie" (all her insides lay next to the corpse) spoke of the killer's knowledge of anatomy or surgery. So it was clearly not an ordinary criminal.
Jack the Ripper victims
The second murder had an unexpected continuation. On September 28, a mocking letter arrived at the news agency in Fleet Street. It said: “Rumors are reaching me from all sides that the police have caught me. And they still haven't even figured me out. I prey on a certain type of woman and will not stop slaughtering them until I am tied up. The last one was a great job. Lady didn't even have time to scream. I love this kind of work and I'm ready to repeat it. Soon you will know about me again by a funny trick. When I finished my last job, I took the ink in a ginger lemonade bottle with me to write the letter, but it soon thickened like glue and I couldn't use it. So I decided that red ink would do instead. Ha! Ha! Next time I will cut off the ears and send them to the police, just like that, as a joke.
The letter was signed "Jack the Ripper". The following letter, sent to the Whitechapel policing commission, had half a kidney enclosed. The sender claimed that the kidney had been cut from the victim he had killed and that he had eaten the other half. Of course, the investigators were not sure that the same person who sent the first letter sent the second letter. But it was already known that Jack the Ripper cuts out some organs from his victims. Skillfully cutting their throats, he dismembers the bodies, cuts the faces, opens the abdominal cavity, removes the insides. He leaves something next to the corpse, takes something with him.
The third victim of Jack the Ripper was Elizabeth Stride, nicknamed "Long Liz" because of her height. On September 30, a junk dealer, passing with his cart on Burner Street in Whitechapel, noticed a suspicious bundle and reported it to the police. So the body of forty-four-year-old Liz was found. As in previous cases, the victim's throat was slashed. The killer was behind her. But there were no injuries or signs of sexual excesses on the body. The police decided that the criminal was ashamed of his vile deeds. However, on the same day, they discovered victim number four.
Jack the Ripper murders
Katherine Adows, in her forties, was found dismembered, her face was cut, the extracted entrails lay on her right shoulder, both ears were missing. By that time, London was already gripped by a wave of fear. Many women began to carry knives and whistles to call the police. The Illustrated London News jokingly suggested that noble ladies get pearl-handled pistols in case the Ripper wanted to expand social sphere murders.
One of the stores even began to advertise steel corsets. And in Whitechapel itself, policewomen began to dress and make up like prostitutes in the expectation that the criminal would take the bait and get caught. It came to a farce. So, a journalist dressed up as lung woman behavior, and asked: "Are you one of us?" He replied: “No way!” — and arrested a nimble reporter.
The murder of Iddowes alarmed the police to the extreme. Her body was mutilated much more than in previous cases. A bloody path led from the corpse to the scraps of a tattered apron lying around the entrance. And next to the door on the wall was written in chalk: "The Jews are not the kind of people who can be blamed for anything." Sir Charles Warren, the head of the police, personally erased the inscription and in doing so may have destroyed a very important piece of evidence. But he feared that with the then influx of Jews from the East End of Eastern Europe this inscription could cause a wave of hostility towards them.
Who was Jack the Ripper?
Rumors about who the killer might have been spread at a rapid pace. forest fire. Some frightened residents of the area even said that some policeman was doing this while patrolling the streets. Among the suspects was a certain Russian doctor named Mikhail Ostrog. From somewhere, a version was born that he was allegedly sent by the tsarist secret police to incite hatred towards Jewish emigrants. There were those who claimed that the criminal was some kind of crazy surgeon. Suspicion touched even Sir Charles Warren himself, a well-known Freemason. It has been suggested that he erased the inscription on the wall in order to save the killer-Mason from retribution.
The last murder took place on November 9th. The only difference was the fact that the victim belonged to a higher category of prostitutes - she had her own room. Mary Kelly, twenty-five years old, was murdered and brutally mutilated in the room she rented.
This time, Jack the Ripper had plenty of time to enjoy his nefarious work to his heart's content. On the morning of November 10, the owner of the house, Henry Bowers, while going around the tenants and collecting rent, knocked on Mary's door. The attractive blonde spent the entire previous evening doing her usual job - pestering passers-by, begging for money. The last man, with whom she was seen - tall, dark-haired, with a mustache and in a felt hunting hat, was probably her killer.
At autopsy, by the way, it turned out that the woman was in her third month of pregnancy. This chain of brutal murders ended. However, even now, more than a century later, the mystery of the short but bloody revelry of Jack the Ripper remains unsolved. In 1959, seventy-one years after the series of murders, an old man recalled how, as a child, he once pushed a cart down Khanburi Street and heard shouts of "Murder!"
The old man said: “I was a boy, therefore, without hesitation, I ran up and squeezed through the crowd ... And there she lay, and steam still came from her insides. She was wearing red and white stockings. The then boy saw Jack the Ripper's second victim, Annie Chapman. One of the suspects caused particular excitement in the community, as it was the grandson of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence.
Suspicion fell on him only because there was a lot of talk about his madness. Immediately after the series of murders, the prince was rumored to have been sent to a psychiatric hospital to avoid scandal. The Duke was the eldest son of the future King Edward VII. He was said to be bisexual and mentally damaged after contracting syphilis. But the number one suspect was likely John Druitt Montagu, whose body was found in the Thames a few weeks after Mary Kelly's murder.
Jill the Ripper?
Another author, William Stewart, suggested that Jack the Ripper did not exist, but in fact there was Jill the Ripper, a midwife who traded in clandestine abortions. At one time she was in prison for prostitution. After being released, Jill allegedly began to cruelly take revenge on society.
High-ranking police officer John Stalker, who retired as deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester, after studying the Ripper case, said: “There is still not the slightest real proof against anyone who could be represented in court. The truth is that Jack the Ripper was never afraid of getting caught. I'm sure the police have been close to him more than once, but...
The police in 1888 faced a rather new phenomenon for them - a series of sexually motivated murders, committed by man who was unfamiliar with his victims. Even now, a hundred years later, it is very difficult to solve such crimes.” And yet there is a man who is intimately familiar with the Ripper case and who is convinced that the perpetrator of those horrific murders can be named. John Ross, a former police officer, now runs the so-called "black museum" of the police. Not at all inclined to jump to conclusions, he tells visitors to his unusual exhibition that Jack the Ripper is actually an immigrant named Kosminsky.
By the way, almost nothing is known about this man, except for his last name. Nevertheless, Mr. Ross claims that the data obtained by the police at one time when examining the scene of the incident point precisely to Kosminsky. By the way, not only Ross thinks so. In February 1894, Mr. Ross's predecessor, the equally avid analyst Sir Melvy D. McNaughton, wrote a seven-page memorandum and pinned it to the Jack the Ripper documents.
In this reference, he tried to refute some of the most common versions of the time. The certificate says: “Kosminsky is a Polish Jew. This man went crazy as a result years a life of loneliness and vice. He hated women, especially prostitutes, and was prone to murder ... He is associated with many crimes, which makes him suspect.
Famous artist?
More recently, the American writer, best-selling detective author Patricia Cornwell announced to the whole world that she had finally managed to rip off the mask behind which the psychopathic killer was hiding: Jack the Ripper, the writer claims, was none other than Walter Sickert, the famous English artist, founder of English impressionism. “I literally put my reputation on the line, because if someone manages to refute my evidence, I will feel like an idiot and look like an absolute layman,” says the eminent writer.
To unravel the old mystery, Cornwell put not only her reputation, but also a significant part of her (it should be noted, considerable) fortune. The mystery of Jack the Ripper haunted her for several years, becoming an "idea fix". Looking for clues, she bought over 30 paintings by Walter Sickert, several letters, and even his desk. But the queen of the American detective did not stop there: in the hope of finding traces of the killer's DNA, she gutted one of the artist's paintings, which caused anger on both sides of the ocean.
Cornwell is far from the first to associate the name of Walter Sickert with Jack the Ripper. The artist was known for his decadent lifestyle, dark plots and active interest in the murders committed by a mysterious maniac.
- the most notable television thriller of the season. Let's break down what happened in episodes 5 and 6: deer as a premonition, games with the Ripper, and Dr. Lecter feeding human flesh.
In the fifth episode ("Main Course"), the glorious trio of Jack Crawford - Will Graham - and Hannibal Lecter are in full swing investigating the crimes of a new insane maniac. Associated with him certain history from the past two years ago: The Chesapeake Ripper. A patient in a psychiatric hospital for criminals, Dr. Gideon, built a kind of creepy "object" from a corpse by sticking sharp objects and strange numbers into it. The fact is that this very Chesapeake Ripper acted with approximately similar methods. In this case, there is also a similarity in dates: Gideon had just been put away in the foolhouse two years ago, and since then nothing has been heard about the Ripper. However, our empath Will Graham and his sympathizer Dr. Bloom do not believe that Gideon is the same maniac from the Chesapeake. It would be too easy. But Dr. Chilton, head of the mental hospital, is sure of the opposite. New details of the case are revealed, the red-haired journalist Freddie Lounds is sent to Gideon, but we all know who the real Chesapeake Ripper is.
By the middle of the series (in episode 6 "Sorbet") we finally came close to the personality of Hannibal Lecter. If before it was more hidden threat and lurked somewhere in the background of the fragile Will Graham (it seemed that the series was dedicated to this curly profiler), now he finally got to the fore. As we all understand, Lecter is not just a sophisticated and merciless killer. He is also a subtle psychologist, a person of rather an aesthetic mindset and mood - this is the main focus. An accent that explains the attraction between Graham, who is on the verge, and Hannibal, who has long crossed the line. Lecter apparently sees similar traits in Will and seems to be trying to win himself back by making friends with him. And Graham seems to understand less and less what he needs. And yes, Hannibal also has his own psychoanalyst - Dr. Bedelia du Maurier (played by Gillian Anderson). Of course, in the meantime, Crawford and Graham are investigating a new "murder of the week" involving stolen organs, just like in one of the previous episodes. It becomes clear that the Ripper is back on the warpath, but is it really all done by one person? Why would he remove organs? Maybe the Ripper has followers?
After the Ripper is allegedly "caught" (the detention was difficult - see for yourself why), Lecter makes a spectacular climax. On the occasion of his capture, he throws a sumptuous feast for his colleagues - and guess what's for Hannibal's dinner? There seems to be nowhere left to open. From this follows the conclusion that Lecter is already tired of his filigree lined up cover - he plans to play openly. And this game, apparently, will be scarier than anything we've seen before in the series.
One of the theories, which has been developed for some time, is based on the question: what is the reason for the popularity of this kind of thrillers? With obligatory immersion in the difficult essence of a maniac, attention to the remaining human in him. The British series (we talked about it quite recently) is somewhat similar to Hannibal. It seems to us that this is a kind of therapy - necessary for both the filmmakers themselves and the audience. The most discussed "news" concerns murders and terrorist attacks, which do not even need to be named: everyone understands perfectly well what in question. This not normal. And cinema, like a mirror of time, cannot but react. But, in addition to displaying existing reality, it is capable of healing. Watching, splashing out and getting rid of, sublimating - that's the point. That's why it's worth watching the first season of Hannibal.
Marginal notes:
Freddie Lounds is not such a simple fate as it seems at first glance. She, like almost everyone in this series, has a personal story (tragedy): she used to be a man.
We are all haunted by Lecter's words to Graham about their similarity and the moment from when Hannibal sniffed him. It seems that this detail in some peculiar way still works.
Will Graham is about to snap, and something irreversible will happen to him. There are no obvious hints of this, but such a possibility is felt in the heating atmosphere.
After the murder of Mary Kelly, the macabre activities of Jack the Ripper in London ceased.
The killer was never found, despite the efforts of the police.
The personality and motives of Jack the Ripper still excite the imagination of the public and gave rise to a whole trend - "ripperology" (from the English Jack the Ripper), in which journalists, amateur detectives and historians produce new versions of who Jack the Ripper really was?
The most popular include the following.
Montague John Druitt, lawyer and schoolteacher. In 1888 his body was found in the Thames. There were people in his family who suffered mental disorders. He was named the prime suspect because his death occurred shortly after the discovery of the fifth victim, after which the "Ripper-style" killings ceased. However, later he was excluded from the list of suspects.
Severin Antonovich Klosovsky, Pole. Arriving in England, he took the surname Chapman. Successively poisoned three of his wives, and was hanged. The inspector who led the investigation into the Ripper case suspected Klosovsky of killing prostitutes, however, the Pole was a poisoner, and for a serial killer, a maniac, it is almost impossible to change the methods of murder.
Mikhail Ostrog, also known as Doctor Grant, Claude Clayton, Orloff, Ashley Nabokoff and half a dozen other names. He claimed that he served as a surgeon on the ship, which is very consistent with the version that Jack the Ripper was familiar with medicine, human anatomy, and that he applied his blows with a surgical instrument and with surgical precision. However, no evidence has been found that Ostrog was not just a swindler and a rogue, but a serial killer.
Lizzie Williams is a midwife. The police were looking for a man with medical skills, whose clothes may have been stained with blood. Who will pay attention to a modest midwife hurrying down a dark street? And who would be surprised by the fact that the midwife's clothes are spattered with blood? Lizzie Williams is said to have gone insane due to her infertility, which explains the fury with which she allegedly shredded the bodies of her victims, removing the reproductive organs.
There is also such a version: Prince Albert, the nephew of Queen Victoria, was Jack the Ripper. This version is supported by the fact that the offspring of the royal family visited the prostitutes of Whitechapel, caught syphilis from one of them, and was even close to Mary Jane Kelly, the last of the "canonical victims" of the maniac. In addition, the police received letters allegedly written by Jack the Ripper (later they were declared the tricks of journalists), and so, the handwriting of these letters was very similar to the handwriting of Prince Albert. All this is wonderful, but the prince has an alibi. It is absolutely certain that he was not in London at the time of the murders.
There was a version that the killer was Charles Luthuige Dodgson, known to us as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland. Some researchers have managed to compose anagrams from the letters that formed the sentences of his books. This is how the statement "cut her throat from the left ear to the right" was "read". However, if you set yourself such a task, then in the same way in the books of any author you can find a hint of any crime.
And, finally, a man who, apparently, was the same Jack the Ripper. Aaron Mordke Kosminsky - a native of Russian Empire, Polish Jew, barber from Whitechapel. He was a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case, but nothing could be proven because one of the witnesses, also a Jew, refused to testify against him. Aaron was released, however, soon recaptured by the police while trying to stab his sister. He was declared insane and placed in a mental hospital. After Aaron was isolated, the killing of prostitutes in Whitechaple ceased.
It was only recently, in 2014, that it was possible to prove that Kosminsky was the serial killer by analyzing DNA from semen stains preserved on a shawl that was found near the corpse of one of the victims of the Ripper. One of the policemen liked the shawl, he took her crime scene and gave it to his wife. The shawl was subsequently sold at auction. The research was carried out by Jari Louhelainen, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology from Liverpool. The owners of the shawl, which, as it turned out, had never been washed, provided him with this rarity for research. Louhelainen did a great job matching the DNA preserved on the shawl with the DNA of all living descendants of people who were suspected of these terrible crimes. The DNA on the shawl and the DNA of Aaron Kosminsky's descendants matched.
Years after the terrible events in London, Sir Melville Macnathan, head of the city's criminal investigation department, wrote:
“I can’t forget those foggy evenings and the piercing cries of the newspaper boys: “Another terrible murder! Mutilated corpse in Whitechapel!”
From their ominous chorus, the heart skipped a beat. After the double murder on September 30, not a single servant girl dared to go outside after 10 p.m. These lines are about a serial killer called Jack the Ripper, who in 1888 terrorized Whitechapel, a poor area of London's East End.DIRTY CRIMES
The first Serial killer in the history of world capitals, Jack the Ripper was an urban demon. His name enchanted the gloomy Victorian streets - the most suitable place for the birth of terrible legends. One of them was himself. His secret gave the world the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and several variety musicals. A kind of science "ripperology" appeared (from the English ripper - "Ripper"). Jack the Ripper grew up
into a truly cult figure, but over a century, his story has been so much dissolved in unconfirmed “facts” that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find out what, in fact, is known about him.
From August to November 1888, Jack literally gutted his victims and disappeared without a trace. He acted brutally. The first victim was Mary Ann (Polly) Nicole. On August 31, she was found with her throat cut and her stomach ripped open, "like a pig in the market." A week later they found Annie Chenman, mutilated in much the same way. Despite the beginning of the hunt for the killer, the list was soon replenished by Martha Tabram, whose body was discovered in mid-September.
Drawing from a police bulletin from that era depicting Jack the Ripper "at work"
The Ripper hid for a couple of weeks, and on September 30 struck " Double punch»: In one street of Whitechael lay Elizabeth Strijd with her throat cut, but without any other mutilation. It is believed that Jack was prevented from completing what he started, so he immediately went to look for new victim. On another street in Whitechael, he met Catherine Eddowes. Having ferociously disembowelled her, the villain disappeared along with the woman's kidney.
The last murder “hanged” on Jack happened more than a month later - on November 10 - and was the bloodiest. Jane Kelly (Black Mary) has been found. in her room terribly disfigured. She had her heart cut out. Although the Ripper seems to have vanished into thin air, rumors about his identity continue to live on. The police do not know the name, but the whole world knows the ominous pseudonym by which
signed one of the many letters allegedly sent by the killer. Dear boss! I heard rumors that the police tracked me down, but they want to take me red-handed. I laughed so hard when they smart look they said they were on the trail... I'm hunting for. whores and I will disembowel them until I find myself in handcuffs ... My knife: thawed beautiful and sharp, I want to use it at the first opportunity. Good luck to you!
Yours sincerely
Jack the Ripper. P.S. Do not be offended that I sign with a pseudonym.
This letter was later considered a fake, composed by a newspaperman for the sake of another sensation, as, indeed, almost all other messages from Jack.
THE HOUSE IN THE PRESS
One of the reasons for the popularity and persistence of the Jack the Ripper story is the increased attention it receives in the press. In a prim Victorian London there were plenty of crimes, and the slums of Whitechael were generally considered a dangerous place.
However, the ominous sight of the corpses left by the Ripper gave the newspapers their bread - a sensation. Just at that time the press was becoming an important factor in the struggle for social reforms, and unusual murders made it possible to emphasize the abyss that separated the rich metropolitan quarters of the impoverished working outskirts.
Indeed, in Victorian London, 6% of the female population traded in their bodies. Attacks on Whitechapel prostitutes gave rise to talk about several social ulcers at once, and at the same time about the incompetence of the authorities. While describing the gruesome details of the murders, the newspapermen mocked the helplessness of the Metropolitan Police. When its commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, learned of last victim Jack, resigned, no one doubted that his step was caused by a desire to protect his name from further attacks by the yellow press.
MYSTERIOUS JACK
Who is this elusive killer? One of the main suspects was the fraudster Michael Ostrog, who worked under various aliases. However, there was not enough evidence for an arrest. As long as the image of Jack is alive in books, films and our imagination, the search for him will continue. true face- perhaps with even greater zeal than a century ago. Ripperologists study many versions - from a cannibal maniac to a deranged social reformer.
In 1970, Dr. T. Stowell stated that the cold-blooded killer was Duke Edward of Clarence, the grandson of Queen Victoria. However, in his book Was Clarence Jack the Ripper? Michael
Harrison rejects this candidacy by offering her place as the tutor of the Duke - the Cambridge poet and ardent misogynist J. Stephen. However, this suspicion is also devoid of evidence. Perhaps the truth about Jack the Ripper will someday be revealed - among stolen documents from the case and hidden diaries. However, now the ruthless maniac killer manages to keep his secret.
Recently, the Duke of Clarence, the grandson of Queen Victoria, was offered the role of Jack the Ripper. In the 1890s London was filled with rumors about his depraved life and dark deeds
RANGE OF SUSPECTS
The search for Jack the Ripper has been the idol of many amateur detectives and professional detectives, but we still don't know who he is.
For unclear reasons, the police dropped the case just three weeks after the November 1888 murder of Jane Kelly. The version here is: control public order Whitechapel received a note saying that Jack had drowned in the Thames. In early December, a body was washed ashore, which was identified as Montague John Druitt. He became the prime suspect.
However, the data collected on Druitt, including his age and occupation, were questionable. A butcher, a midwife, a mad professor were also suspected. There was talk about Aron Kosminsky, a Jewish barber who ate in the garbage dumps and in 1890 was sent to a psychiatric hospital.
Suspicions against all these people cannot be called absolutely groundless, but nothing more definite has been found out in any case.
Surely everyone has heard of the ruthless killer Jack the Ripper. They say that his victims were exclusively girls selling their own bodies. But is it really so?
Who is hiding under famous pseudonym? Is he really a killer and what were his goals? Let's try to figure it out.
In fact, there are many versions regarding personality mysterious killer Jack the Ripper. According to one version, he was an emigrant from Poland. But quite ordinary person it cannot be named. He is schizophrenic. The motive for the murder is completely incomprehensible. What prostitutes interfered with him remained a mystery.
There was an opinion that the person hiding under the pseudonym Jack the Ripper could be a woman. However, her motives are clear. The woman was engaged in trade in her body. And other girls of the same profession interfered with her, competing with her. But she killed selectively - only those who were in high demand among clients. The killer just wanted to take their place. And in order to divert suspicion from herself, she came up with such a terrible pseudonym.
But one of the most popular versions says that Jack the Ripper was a barber named Kosminsky. This was evidenced by the research of the scientist John Maurice. He was running a blood test that was found on a shawl belonging to the killer's victim. The police also found a witness watching the ferocious killer. He was able to identify the hairdresser, but later retracted his words. Apparently, the Ripper threatened him with violence.
What did Jack the Ripper use and how did he kill?
The opinion that the killer possessed excellent anatomical knowledge is not erroneous. After all, the brutal murders of the Ripper indicate that he was well versed in the "insides" of a person. He knew what each organ was for and what would happen if it was lost.
The most "popular" method of killing was strangulation. After all, there is nothing easier than to watch for a weak woman in a dark alley, close her mouth with your hand and strangle her. Jack did this so that the victims would not scream while approaching death. Only after the final loss of consciousness did he begin to dismember the bodies, which inevitably led to farewell to his own life.
Another way to settle scores with someone else's life is to cut the throat. It would also seem simple - he ran a knife across his throat, and the man fell without an extra cry. An interesting fact is that Jack struck the throat strictly in a certain direction - from left to right side. Not vice versa. The Ripper was never stained with blood, because the victim's head was always tilted to the right. The victims had deep wounds, indicating that the killer had a large knife and high physique. It is this moment that forces us to say that Jack the Ripper is a man.
After the person was already dead, the cruel torturer cut open the person's abdominal cavity, taking out certain organs. Most often, women lost their reproductive organs. But there were also cases when the killer cut out the hearts and kidneys of all the murdered girls.
Who did Jack the Ripper kill?
All researchers agreed that Jack the Ripper killed exclusively prostitutes from the slums. Reportedly various sources involved in the investigation, the number of those killed is from four to fifteen people. But there is a list of five people that Jack killed. And it is with this number that all scientists unequivocally agree. 
The first victim is Mary Nichols. She was only 33 years old. A young prostitute named Polly is killed after being stabbed twice in the throat. Abdomen ripped open, but there are traces of several more stabbing wounds that were inflicted by the same weapon.
Annie Chapman, nicknamed "Dark Annie", was found dead at the age of 47. As in the previous murder, Jack killed Annie by stabbing her twice in the throat. The killer cut open the chest, then cut out the uterus.
Next in line for murder was Elizabeth Stride, who in narrow circles was listed as Lanky Liz. She was killed by Jack in the same way - by cutting her throat. But, compared to others, this murder was more “soft” - the Ripper deprived the victim of an earlobe. All organs are in place.
The fourth officially recognized victim was Katherine Eddowes. Compared to those killed in the past, she did not have any nicknames. Killed at the same time as Elizabeth Stride - September 30th. She was 46 years old. Same story - slit throat. One kidney was removed from the victim's body. According to some researchers, a part of this particular organ was sent to the police station as a souvenir.
The latest victim, researchers believe, was Mary Jane Kelly. Among all those killed, the girl was the youngest - she was only 25 years old. She was killed in her apartment. Jack, apparently, was very angry with this girl that he disfigured the murdered woman to such an extent that the police could not immediately identify her. According to the police, the girl was one of the highly paid and attractive prostitutes. This allowed her to receive clients from the upper classes, as well as to have her own apartment at her disposal. It was this fact that most likely angered the serial maniac.
Police everyday life
The best police officers in England took part in the investigation of cruel and bloodthirsty murders. But, of course, how many people - so many opinions. Everyone had their own version of who Jack the Ripper really was.
Often the police departments in England received letters signed as "Jack the Ripper". Analysis of the handwriting did not make it clear who the killer was. Law enforcement officers even persuaded one print publication to place a copy of the message in their newspaper in the hope that readers would recognize Jack's handwriting. But no one did.
In total, the police departments received three letters signed by the killer. To last letter A small package was included. Upon opening it, the policeman almost fainted when he found part of a human kidney. And the message said that the second part of the organ was eaten by the killer, and this part was donated to the police department as a souvenir. DNA analysis revealed that the kidney actually belonged to one of the victims. And the killer was most likely a woman, as evidenced by the remains of blood on the letter and neat handwriting. 
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