The Infamous Jack the Ripper

In the year 1888, the East End of London had heard a murder that had occurred. The murder that Jack committed is still famous to this day, and it happened from August 1888 to November 1888. Jack the Ripper murdered five women. These so-called “canonical five” victims were Mary Ann Nichols (found on August 31), Annie Chapman (found on September 8), Elizabeth Stride (found on September 30), Catherine (Kate) Eddowes (found on September 30), and Mary Jane Kelly (found on November 9). Some assumptions would say that four of these women were prostitutes, excluding Kelly, but they were all mere assumptions. This Whitechapel murderer has some reasons for his infamy.

One is to expose the unbalanced system of the Whitechapel’s citizens. Two, it’s because the killings happened as a hotbed of vice and villainy, and a breeding ground for social unrest, squalor and disease. This killing spree lasted a mere twelve or so weeks, meaning that he wasn’t at large for a particularly long period of time. As for the name first introduced, in September 1888, a signature letter was sent to the head of the London news agency, and it was signed as today’s famous serial killer.

To this day, we still don’t know the facts and valid reasons for the murders, as one assumption is that the victims were prostitutes. Thus, this Whitechapel murder had rocketed in the news and public to the citizens of London.

References:

Jones, R. (2022, March 25). JACK THE RIPPER 1888. www.jack-the-ripper.org. Retrieved 2022, from https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/

Jenkins, J. Philip (2022, January 21). Jack the Ripper. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-the-Ripper