Jack the Ripper, otherwise known as the Whitechapel Murderer or “Leather Apron”, was a notorious murderer, who killed 5 women working as prostitutes in the Whitechapel district of London, as well as Spitalfields, Aldgate, and the City of London, in 1888. However, historians argue that there were various other deaths around that time that could have been his handiwork, which adds up to a total of 11 victims. He killed the first, Emma Elizabeth Smith, on April 3rd, 1888, and his last, Frances Coles, on February 13th, 1891, according to a London Metropolitan Police Service investigation known as the Whitechapel Murders. (Whitechapel Jack, 2016) He was referred to as the “Ripper” because of the manner in which he tore into and cut up the bodies