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.
At that time the police suspected some people but in fact, no one knows who is Jack the Ripper if it's a woman or man, a poor man/woman or a rich man/woman ... and this mystery has like people imagine many theories and possibilities about his or her identity. Nobody knows why he committed these murders.
Some specialists say that he was “an educated upper-class man” or“a doctor or an aristocrat”. One thing is sure for them, he had a psychological problem as sexual deviance.
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In one part we have some historical and convincing theories. In the other part, we have hypothetical theories with some historical facts but they appear unbelievable.
We can find an infinite theory, but we can't develop all them in this essay. For this reason, we will take some of them and define why we can accept some of them and reject the others.
The most likely theories for the historian is someone who kills only for pleasure because of sexual deviance, misogyny, psychological problems due to a rejection by the society, poverty... We can find for example Robert Mann an assistant of a morgue and Francis Tumblety a doctor accused of being a charlatan and a misogynist.
The popularity of the killer and his mysterious identity allow famous insane theories.
This popularity is also the reason for their rejection. It's easy for the historian to verify these theories.
For the less credible suspect, we have for examples Lewis Carroll, the famous painter and the Prince Albert