Jack the Ripper was a serial killer that acted in 1888, killing five prostitutes from 31st of August to the 9th of November. They were never heard from nor any murder that is considered theirs committed, though some crimes from soon after have been linked to him. However, only the “canonical five”, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catharine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly, will be considered. Jack the Ripper was not one person, and nor were multiple people working to be the one identity. Instead, there was a main murderer, a coincidental murderer, and a copycat murderer.
Montague John Druitt killed Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, and Catharine Eddowes and would be the person that most would call “Jack the Ripper” He has enough
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He had a motive for the murder; they had had a falling out only ten days before her death over letting a prostitute stay with them, which he was not pleased with. In this argument, he was quite violent, smashing a window, and moved out from an eighteen month living arrangements. However, afterwards he was extremely kind to her, giving her money and gifts until her death. The murder was quite obviously a faulty copy of the delicate and precision based murders which were attributed to Jack the Ripper. The corpse was mutilated almost beyond belief, instead of the neat cuts along the neck and abdomen. The circumstances were also too different to be seen as a “true” Ripper murder. Instead of being outdoors, Mary Jane Kelly was killed inside her room, already naked upon death, instead of outside in an alleyway. In her room, she lay, extremely cut up, on her bed, with her clothes folded on the chair next to her bed. This is vastly different to the meticulously cut up women in alleyways and other locations that were out of the way in order to not be seen. If Joseph Barnett is the murderer, it solves the mystery of the locked door. In Kelly’s room, the door is locked which can only be done with a key or if someone knew the geography of the room well enough that they could lock it from the outside. Barnett, having lived there for a year and a half, would know how to lock the door through the window, and would most likely have a key to their formerly shared room. Even Barnett’s job as a fish porter can support the argument that he was the one who murdered Kelly. He would not be used to working with knives, which would have explained the mutilations and their lack of care, contrary to the Ripper’s normal methods. Joseph Barnett was angry at his lover for allowing a prostitute to stay with them, as well as going back to prostitution
There were reports of a white male driving old car on campus at the time of the homicide and police discovered a man's watch at the scene. A month after the assault, a letter was sent to a neighborhood daily paper by the killer. Months after the fact, letters were sent to the media, the police and the victim’s dad by the killer, all with the same chilling message: "Bates needed to kick the bucket. There will be more." On the night of December 20, 1968, the killer followed through on his letter.
David Lee, Yebin Cho, Cindy Hong Mr. Musselman Ap Psychology 31, January 2016 Our team has investigated on the crime of a suspect of serial killer. The victims were Mrs.Shelby, John G, Jimmy Grants, Teddy a.k.a. John Edward Gammell.
Texas Servant Girl Murders - (HDSI) In a Public Service Broadcasting History Detectives documentary, a team of forensic scientists and detectives decided to attempt to solve a case more than 130 years old. The “Texas Servant Girl Murders” are a series of murders that took place in Austin, Texas in 1885. These murders have remained a mystery until modern day forensic scientists look back and may have been able to solve this crime easily today.
This well known serial killer has still not been discovered. He took the lives of 5 women in the Whitechapel area. Because of his horrific way of killing, Whitechapel was on edge during this time. Detectives are still trying to make discoveries to this day as to who the actual killer is. The mystery behind the gruesome, cannibalistic murders from Jack the Ripper can be summed up by two suspects: Aaron Kosminski and Severin Klosowski.
In November 2007, Meredith kercher was found dead in the apartment she shared with Amanda Knox. She had been stabbed. the knife wounds and a slashed neck leading to a lack of oxygen. But who could do this? Who would do this?
How could he just murder Carew? He must have been a deeply disturbed man on the inside, and he took a cowards path and took his own life. On the 11th day after learning the news he heard a knock one the door; he climbed out of his bed and opened the door for the first time
Terror streaked through the San Francisco Bay area in the late 60’s and early 70’s. But why? A murderer, self proclaimed himself as the Zodiac Killer, went on a killing spree at this time. Sending many letters to the police. The Zodiac case remains unsolved to this day.
She was killed by being bludgeoned to death on her bed. It is assumed that there was a murder weapon but it was never found. Sheppard and his son were the only two known to have been in the house at the time murder. Sheppard's son has no recollection of the event, he was found by the police sleeping in his room. Sheppard however, was the one who called the police and told
Christopher Simmons was not your typical American teenager. Abused and neglected as a young boy, by the time he was seventeen years old he became a convicted murderer and was sentenced to the maximum punishment which is the death penalty. Christopher Simmons was old enough and mature enough to understand that what he did was morally and socially wrong. If someone can completely conjugate up a murder plot by oneself, then they should be sentenced to the death penalty no matter the age. Simmons should have received the death penalty despite his age at the time of the crime he perpetrated.
“But the evidence will show he directed her off the highway to a dark, secluded where he strangled her with a rope and threw her body off a bridge.” Desloup stated (pg 1). As stated in the case, the murder weapon was a rope, as she died because of strangulation. After the murder,
In 1917, a woman named Elizabeth Huntley decapitated her own daughter. When her case was brought to trial, doctors and professionals wrote it off as depression. Friends and family described that Huntley was a joyful woman until the air raids happened in London. She had nervous breakdowns during the air raids and even more so when her children screamed and cried. Before her doctor got her out of London and away from her children, she had already murdered her child.
Him being known as a cocaine addict and serial killer contributed. He was put in a mental hospital before, so something isn’t right with him. No sign was found of the murderer’s whereabouts after the killing and that would make sense because Mansfield wasn’t from Iowa. Meanwhile, 5 days before the murders 2 other people were killed in Kansas with an ax. They never found the killer either.
The killer wrote about 700 letters. The first letter was one known as ‘Dear Boss’, which arrived on September 27th, 1888. The letter signed off with “Yours truly, Jack the Ripper.” Up until that point the killer had been known variously as the "Red Fiend", "The Whitechapel Murderer," and "Leather Apron. "1 Most of the letters consisted of mocking the police and talking about the women he was planning to kill, or killed.
She was killed. Someone took her quietly and took her down in the basement...hit her on the head. (Day to Day)” Police also say Burke had lashed out on his sister before, once hitting her in the face with a golf club, cutting her cheek. Detectives took various handwriting samples from anyone suspicious to the case.
This essay will examine the case study of the convicted serial killer Gary Ridgway, who was eventually caught and convicted for the murders 48 women. Ridgway, went on a killing spree of women without getting caught for over two decades, he went on to become the Green River Killer (Reichert, 2004). The essay will explore and evaluate the characteristics including the attribution of Garry Ridgway’s horrific crimes. In the 1980s and 1990s Ridgway targeted prostitutes, runaway girls, hitchhikers and vulnerable women in the locality of where he lived in Washington State, USA (Reichert, 2004). It baffled the authorities as to how he was able to commit these crimes whilst working and living in the locality of his crimes however, he was not suspected