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. What people disagree on the most is his identity. No one knows it and this has caused many conspiracies to ascend from nowhere. Although many are ludicrous, some theories are reasonable like Jack having multiple accomplices. It is very likely he wasn’t alone. This is because many people have been connected to his handy work, there isn’t any solid evidence on one person, many people claim to be him, and copycats are influenceable.
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According to Dr. Andrew Cook, a historian and author of "Jack the Ripper: Case closed", discovered that officers who worked in the area and time of the killings, had stated they believed that it was unlikely the murderer could have killed all of the women (Moore). These officers are primary sources, which means they lived through this event and most likely got to see the bodies; by looking at the bodies, they could have examined the way the women’s bodies were cut and stabbed to identify similarities between them. In "The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper" by Maxim Jakubowski, he explains details written by Peter Turnbull, another author, where Martha Tabram, who was one of the victims, was discovered to have had been killed by two separate instruments (MacGowen). It’s pretty unusual for a killer to use two different weapons. When thinking about it, if someone uses two weapons for a crime, then they’ll have to switch in between the murder to use the weapons. Jack had to be quick and the only other reason he might have had them was that two men did the