Conspiracy theories have become a prevalent part of today’s society as the ever-looming belief that the government cannot be trusted further continues to be present thought. A leading conspiracy theory is that the infamous serial killers H.H. Holmes and Jack the Ripper were in fact one in the same. It is believed that H.H. Holmes committed anywhere from 20 to 200 murders during the middle to late 1800’s. He was arrested and tried for the homicides in 1894, but was not convicted until 1895. The next year, in May of 1896 H.H. Holmes was hung for the murder of one of his victims, Benjamin Pitezel, later being laid to rest in a cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On August 31, 1888, at about 3:40 am, Charles Cross and Robert Paul were walking down Bucksrow in London, England on a cool Friday morning. At the end of the alleyway, they noticed a bundle of blankets. When the two men kept walking, they noticed that bundle was not just blankets, but the body of Maryann Nichols, a prostitute that worked the Whitechapel area. She had her throat slashed and had been disemboweled. She seemed to have been only dead about a half hour, meaning that her killer was probably still in the area.
This topic is about a numerous murders that occurred during the 1800’s in London, England in a neighborhood that was known as Whitechapel. The infamous killer nickname was “Jack the Ripper”, he was a man that killed prostitutes, usually their age was around 40. Now there is a great deal of people saying who Jack the Ripper was but none of them fit. After almost two hundred years of searching they found DNA, as a result of who the suspect may be. One theory suggested that Jack the Ripper was a man that goes by the name of James Kelly, the other theory suggested that Aaron Kosminski was also Jack the Ripper.
Have you ever seen someone cut a neck from ear to ear? If you want to know more you should read the whole essay. My essay is about a not so regular guy named Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper was never caught by the police. This makes people wonder who Jack the Ripper really is?
In those weeks, five women were brutally killed and the disemboweled. All five victims were prostitutes. Secondly, letters were sent to the London Metropolitan Police Service “taunting officers about his gruesome activities and speculating
His victims were vulnerable prostitutes. He would rape and kill these women whose ages varied from 14 to 36. The police of his local town sweeped these murders under the
Was Jack the Ripper More Than One Man? Who was Jack the Ripper? He was a serial killer who went on a killing spree in the Whitechapel area in London around 1888; his victims were prostitutes and he would slit their throats, as well as remove organs. Many accept this as an unsolved mystery, but it seems to be the only statement people agree on.
Again ‘Jack the Ripper’ strikes without leaving many clues or evidence for the police force to ascertain his identity. Mary Jane Kelly had been late on her rent which is the reason her body is discovered after 10 am on November 9, 1888. A young man was sent to go collect on her past due rent. After some knocking he peaks through the broken glass window into the small room that constituted as her home. What he saw was a scene of horror and immediately seeks out to advise the police.
When people talk about serial killers, there are a few notorious ones that come to mind. Although there is a long list of serial killers, they were once rare, but reports on them date back to the fifteenth century (Methvin). They would soon become more common in everyday life. The oldest notorious serial killer is known as Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper became the mysterious serial killer in Whitechapel, London (Methvin).
Mary Nichols was the first confirmed victim of the Ripper, being killed on the 31st of August, 1888. Her body was found by Charles Cross, who said that “...the woman’s throat had been slashed so savagely that her head had almost been cut from her body. ”1 Annie Chapman was the second suspect. Her body was found on September 8th, 1888. Her head had been almost completely cut off, and the killer had cut off her womb
(Begg) The Ripper’s killing spree was comprised of numerous events, many in which involved the Ripper teasing the London police or murdering and mutilating women beyond recognition (“The Hunt For Jack the Ripper”). The Ripper murdered the women in a manner that suggested he had a knowledge of human anatomy, and one example of includes when he removed Catherine Eddowes’ left kidney and sent it to the local police. (“Jack the
In 1888, five canonical, and six supposed, gruesome murders puzzled investigators and alarmed civilians as the news of the Whitechapel Murderer spread like wildfire from the East End of London. Better known as Jack the Ripper, his story quizzed all people on their greatest capability, yet his true identity has never been established. What we do know is that the prime target of his killings were that of female prostitutes in the slums of the city, and that he must have had some form of medical training background, which was gathered evidence after investigators found the bodies. This scourge was fixed as the killer for five murders due to the victims having slit throats, removed organs, and/or mutilated genitals. There was also six murders
Jack the Ripper; A twisted murderer in London in the year 1888. Twisted, is the word most used to describe him because of his ‘creative’ ways of killing people. In Jack the Ripper's case, people, were specifically identified as five different prostitute (Jack the Ripper 1). According to an article by the name or “Serial Murder”, the definition of a serial murderer is originally defined by the FBI as “involving at least four events that take place at different locations and are separated by the cooling off period,” (Serial Murder 1)
Jack the Ripper is the best known serial killer of History but above all the most mysterious. In 1888, he killed in Whitechapel five prostitutes nicknamed as “canonical five”. Their name was Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly.
Jack the Ripper has left a mystery since his first horrific murder; the information that has been gathered helps narrow him down to specific suspects. In the time between August and November of 1888, in Whitechapel, five prostitutes were mutilated by a knife (“The Hunt”). The women who were known to be killed by him are Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Polly Nichols, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly
