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Jack the Ripper - Why Was Jack the Ripper Found?

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JACK THE RIPPER why was Jack the Ripper found?

Jack the Ripper was one of the most feared serial killers in the latter half of the 19th century. Still to this day his identity is unknown. There were many suspects of the identity of Jack including Prince Albert Victor, James Kelly, Aaron Kaminski and Dr. John Williams. Jack identity is still unknown due to a lack of evidence needed for a forensic lead. Jack's victims had several things in common, involving their murders and lives. The police never had enough evidence to charge someone with the murders, of the Ripper.

There were five known victims of Jack the Ripper. There were a number of other victims believed to be killed by Jack, but these were never proven. All the victims were all prostitutes and their deaths were similar. Their throats were slit and they were mutilated. None of them were sexually assaulted. All the victims died within a quarter of a square mile of White Chapel in the early hours of the morning. Jack often took the victims rings and coins. The way he positioned the body was very odd. Catherine Eddowes, one of Jacks victims, was found with all her possessions inside her garment. These included a blunt table knife, a scrap of red flannel for pins and needle, and two tin boxes, one for sugar and the other for tea. There were other murder during the same time as the ripper but it was questioned that maybe they were killed by same person ( the ripper) but it was never proven.

Jack the Ripper was amazing at taunting the police. With all the correspondence of the media and citizen groups, the police were under a lot of pressure to discover the identity of Jack. The police became frustrated with all the dead end clues. Often they were very close to catching him but just missed him by minutes. There was never enough strong evidence for the police to point them in the right way to find the Ripper. Jack would leave a few clues, but just to tease the police. The most interesting one of the clues was what was writing on the wall of the crimes scene ‘the juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing'. There were some patterns in his killings, they would only happen the first or last weekend of the month and always near the Whitechapel.

At one time jack almost slipped up with one of his killings. On the night of 30th sep, a hawker named Louis Diemuchutz was walking around with his pony and cart about 1am in the morning. He came a pone a still warm body of a woman with her throat slit (it's was Elizabeth stride, the ripper third victim). Mr. Diemuchutz said there was no body there fifteen minutes earlier. The police surgeon Dr. Bagster Phillips who examined the body 1.15 am estimated she was killed

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