Who was Jack the Ripper?

Victorian London's unidentified slasher of prostitutes reamains still today the object of study, discussions, and obsession for thousands of people. New writings and studies are published every year about Jack the Ripper even though his victim count was five.The reason being is simple, he got away with it.

On August 31, 1888, a woman's lifeless body was found on Buck's Row in the heart of Lindon's Whitechapel slum. Mary Nichols, who was also known as Polly to all her friends earned her living as a prostitute until one client took her life away. Slashing her throat, as well as possibly choked since there were bruises found beneath her jaw line. During the autopsy the medical examiner found deep slashes on her abdomen and well as on her genital area.

For Scotland Yard the murder of a prostitute was nothing to start panic over. In fact during the same time as the death of Mary Nichols, two other women were found. Emma Smith who had been attacked by 4 or 5 men, living long enough to give descriptions, and Martha Tabram who was found in Whitechapel, stabbed 39 times. None of the crimes had nothing to do with the other, but the police had to wait to see if a pattern would arrise.

And on September 8, 1888, the body of Annie Chapman was found on Buck's Row. Another prostitute who had been choke to unconscienceness, her throat cut and disembowled. Her intestines had been torn away and draped over her one shoulder. Portions of her bladder and vagina, as well as her ovaries and uterus had been missing from the scene. Detectives on the scene knew they were dealing with someone who obviously had or was in the medical field due to the clean cuts the person had made to the victims body.

On September 25, 1888 the first letter was received at London's Central New's Agency, it read as follows :