Further Reading For Jack The Ripper
Capturing Jack the Ripper: In the Boots of a Bobby in Victorian London by Neil Bell
The Jack the Ripper Files: The Illustrated History of the Whitechapel Murders by Richard Jones
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Jack remains one of the world’s best known unsolved murder cases and one of the earliest known serial killer cases in the modern paradigm. Jack’s reign of terror took place in the Whitechapel district of London, known for its poverty and prostitutes, a hunting ground similar to Gary Ridgway’s Green River Killer spree, where Jack, also known as The Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron, was known to have taunted both the police and British press of the time with cryptic letters, similar the unsolved Zodiac killings.
Jack murdered a canonical five women between 1888 and 1891 before the murders ended. His victims were mutilated on the street, in shadowy alleyways, parts of their bodies dismembered, almost always disemboweled, with their insides removed and left at the crime scene next to the body. The precision of some of Jack’s work suggested to investigators of the time and of its legacy, that Jack most likely had some kind of medical background.
There are over one hundred theories in circulation as to who the killer may be but the crimes remain and will probably remain unsolved forever in spite of the fact that whoever killed these poor women was running around London covered in blood.
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