Topic > Research into Jack the Ripper's victims 'East End of London, England. His action in the Whitechapel district made him known as "the Whitechapel murderer". Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay During the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the police suspected a scary boy who was known as "Leather Apron" by the people around him. The nickname "Leather Apron" comes from his characteristic of always wearing a leather apron. He blackmailed women late at night and always carried a leather knife with him. He was suspected of being Jack the Ripper, but was later cast aside due to a solid alibi he had on the night of some serial murder cases. But because of the great suspicion he had during that time, people often linked Jack the Ripper with Leather Apron. The name Jack the Ripper itself comes from a letter sent to the Central News Agency on September 27, 1888. In the letter, the writer claimed to be the killer in the serial murder case and called himself "Jack the Ripper". The name was then spread through the media, thus making the killer known as "Jack the Ripper". The letter itself was said to be a hoax written by journalists to gain attention, but some believed that Jack the Ripper himself wrote it. Jack the Ripper's victims were said to be five people, known as the Canon Five. They were all prostitutes, except one, and lived in the slums of London's East End. All their bodies were discovered not far from each other, just a mile apart, in the Whitechapel district. This essay aims to reveal what exactly happened to the Canonical Five - who, when, where and how they were killed - in 1888. .The Canonical Five Mary Ann NichollsMary Ann Nicholls was Jack the Ripper's first victim. She was killed on 31 August 1888. Her body was first discovered by a Carman named Charles Allen Cross on the ground outside the entrance to a fenced stable in Buck's Row, Whitechapel, at 3.40am. It was located approximately 150 meters from the London Hospital and 100 meters from the Blackwall Buildings. Nicholls was last seen alive at around 2.30am by her roommate, Emily Holland, on the corner of Osborn Street and Whitechapel Road. None of the nearby residents, the slaughterers - who worked overnight at the nearby slaughterhouse on Winthrop Street - nor the police officers on patrol heard or saw anything suspicious before the discovery of Nicholls' body. Henry Llewellyn, who arrived at 4:00 am and inspected Nicholls' body, decided that Nicholls had been dead for about 30 minutes. This means that Nicholls was estimated to have been killed around 3.30am, ten minutes before her body was discovered. Nicholls' throat was cut twice from left to right and incisions - completely cutting through all the tissue up to the vertebrae - were visible on his neck. A deep, jagged wound, several incisions and three or four similar cuts on the right side were found on his abdomen. The weapon is estimated to have been a knife at least 6-8 inches (15-20 cm) long, used violently and downwards, and may have been used by a left-handed person. Looking at her face you notice that she was missing five teeth. There was a slight laceration on his tongue, a bruise running along the bottom of his right jaw - couldhaving been caused by a punch or thumb pressure - and a circular bruise on the left side of his face which he suspected was caused by finger pressure. Annie ChapmanA week after the killing of Mary Ann Nicholls, Annie Chapman was found lifeless on the morning of September 8, 1888. A witness, Mrs. Elizabeth Long, saw Chapman talking to a man – over forty years old, just over tall of Chapman, with dark hair and a “shabby-gentle” appearance, wearing a deerstalker hat and a dark overcoat – beyond the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields, at around 5.30am. Mrs. Long was probably the last person to see Chapman before she was killed. John Richardson, the son of a resident of the house, who had been in the backyard since before 5 a.m. cutting his boot, and a carpenter named Albert Cadosch, who entered the yard near 27 Hanbury Street around 5:30 a.m., heard voices in the yard followed by the sound of something falling against a fence. Chapman's body was later discovered by a resident of number 29, market doorman John Davis, on the ground near a door in the back yard, just before 6am. George Bagster Phillips, the police surgeon who examined Chapman's body, estimated that Chapman's time of death was around 4:30 a.m. or earlier. But his prediction contradicted the statement of witnesses who placed the murder later (by 5:30 am). Phillip then decided that the body could have become much colder due to the rather cold temperature that morning. Chapman's body was terribly mutilated. Her throat was cut from left to right with a jagged incision and she was disembowelled. Her intestines were expelled from her abdomen and part of her uterus was missing. She may have been asphyxiated with a handkerchief around her neck before her throat was slit, looking at her protruding tongue and swollen face. Phillips concluded that the killer may have possessed anatomical knowledge by observing how he could cut off reproductive organs with a single motion. However, his theory was later rejected by other experts who suggested that his organ had been removed by mortuary staff, who later sold it as a surgical specimen. The weapon used on the throat and abdomen was the same. It was a sharp knife with a thin, narrow blade, at least 6-8 inches long – the same as Nicholls' case – or more. Elizabeth Stride Less than a month after Annie Chapman's death, Jack the Ripper's third victim appeared. On September 30, 1888, Officer William Smith saw Stride with a man wearing a hard felt hat and carrying a package approximately 18 inches (45 cm) long at 40 Berner Street, across from the Workingmen's International Educational Club – a socialist and predominantly Jewish social club - in Whitechapel, at around 12.35am. At around 1am, a steward from the Workers' Club entered the adjacent Dutfield's Yard with a pony and two-wheeled cart. His name was Louis Diemschutz. The yard was so dark that Diemschutz had to light a match to see what happened when his horse shied. That's when he found Stride's body. Stride was apparently killed shortly before Diemschutz arrived and blood was still flowing from her neck when she was discovered. Just like in previous cases, between half past midnight and fifty past midnight, none of the residents, a club member and a passerby saw anything amiss nor anyone entering the courtyard. Although there was someone named Israel Schwartz who said he saw Stride being attacked and thrown to the ground outside the courtyard at around 12.45am, he did not testify at the inquest as he was a Hungarian who spoke very little English.His statement was later found by a Ripper investigator called Stephen Knights in the 1970s. No wounds were found on Stride's body - apart from a cut on his neck - unlike previous victims who had been mutilated. For this reason, speculation arose that Diemschutz's arrival had interrupted the assassin's action. Despite this, people still believed that the murder was carried out by Jack the Ripper by looking at the pattern - time, place, characteristics of the victims and method - of previous murders. Catherine Eddowes Catherine Eddowes was mutilated less than an hour after Elizabeth Stride was killed on September 30, 1888. It is estimated that Eddowes was killed between 1:35 a.m., when she was last seen alive - and at 1.45am - when she was found - on the south-west corner of Miter Square. According to Joseph Lawende - one of the last people to see Eddowes alive, Eddowes was last seen talking to a man - a man with a light mustache wearing a dark blue jacket, a cloth cap with a peak and a red scarf - all entrance to Church Passage. It was PC Edward Watkins, the policeman in the square, who discovered Eddowes' body. He had entered the square at 1.30am and entered the square again at 1.44am, a minute before finding Eddowes' body. No one noticed anything unusual, not even the night guards and an off-duty policeman who were nearby at the time. Eddowes' throat was cut, causing a haemorrhage from the left common carotid artery, leading to immediate death followed by mutilation. There were a few incisions on his face, running across the bridge of his nose, across both cheeks and across the eyelids of both eyes. The tip of the nose and part of the right ear – the lobe and the auricle – were cut off. His intestines – smeared with something fetile – were removed from his body and placed over his right shoulder. On the back of his left hand, between the thumb and forefinger, a fresh reddish bruise the size of a sixpence was visible. Mary Jane KellyAfter the case of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes on September 30, 1888, London found peace for a while. When people thought the serial murder case was over, suddenly, on the morning of November 9, 1888, Jack the Ripper launched his attack again. His victim this time was Mary Jane Kelly, who was found lifeless and mutilated on a bed in her room at 13 Miller's Court, at the rear of 26 Dorset Street, Spitalfields, at around 10.45am. She was found by her landlord's assistant, Thomas Bowyer, who came to her room to collect rent. After some tests on Kelly's body, it is estimated that she was killed between 2:00 am and 8:00 am. The estimate of the time of her death then rejected witnesses' claims that he had seen her around 8:00 and 10:00. By far, the mutilation of Kelly's body was the cruelest compared to that of previous victims, with the theory being that the killer had more time to carry out his deed by carrying it out in a private room rather than on the street. She was first slit in the throat, which cuts neck tissue to the bone, causing immediate death, followed by mutilation using a knife approximately 1 inch (25 mm) wide and 6 inches (150 mm) long or more. the face actually could not be recognized because the nose, cheeks, eyebrows and ears had been partially removed. He had incisions on his lips that sloped down to his chin and also some irregular cuts on his face. Her breasts were severed with circular incisions, which cut the intercostals between the fourth, fifth and sixth ribs, causing the chest to be visible through the openings. One of her breasts was placed under her head and
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