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'Jack the Ripper' was a serial killer in the Victorian Era, although his identity was never discovered...So who was he?

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There were five victims—Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly—are known as the "canonical five" and their murders between 31 August and 9 November 1888 are often considered the most likely to be linked.

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Jack may not have been found, but there were many suspects such as:
-Montague John Druitt.

-Seweryn Kłosowski.

-Aaron Kosminski.

-Michael Ostrog.

-John Pizer.

-James Thomas Sadler.

-Francis Tumblety.

-William Henry Bury
Some of these people were suspected for some of the most unusual things, but some could have been correct...

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Over the period of time when he murders occurred the police received many letters-and most were very disturbing. The name 'Jack the Ripper' came from one of these letters, claiming they were the to be the murderer.The "From 🤬" letter received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee came with half of a preserved human kidney, supposedly taken from one of the victims.

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His recount stated:
A man coming in the opposite direction to Kelly tapped her on the shoulder and said something to her. They both burst out laughing. I heard her say alright to him. And the man said you will be alright for what I have told you. He then placed his right hand around her shoulders. He also had a kind of a small parcel in his left hand with a kind of strap round it. I stood against the lamp of the Queen’s Head Public House and watched him. They both then came past me and the man hid down his head with his hat over his eyes. I stooped down and looked him in the face. He looked at me stern. They both went into Dorset Street.

Description age about 34 or 35. height 5ft6 complexion pale, dark eyes and eye lashes slight moustache, curled up each end, and hair dark, very surley looking dress long dark coat, collar and cuffs trimmed astracan. And a dark jacket under. Light waistcoat dark trousers dark felt hat turned down in the middle. Button boots and gaiters with white buttons. Wore a very thick gold chain white linen collar. Black tie with horse shoe pin. Respectable appearance walked very sharp. Jewish appearance. Can be identified. Mary Jane Kelly was discovered there.

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Joseph Lawende's statement;
The first publication of the description of the man seen by Lawende was in the Times on 2 October - "of shabby appearance, about 30 years of age and 5ft. 9in. in height, of fair complexion, having a small fair moustache, and wearing a red neckerchief and a cap with a peak".

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Police found each of the bodies extremely mutilated with organs removed. This caused people to theorise the ripper may be trained medically or could be a surgeon...
There was not much evidence except for a bloody rag found on the night of one of one the murders. Although, the police didn't have the technology we do today, so the case was not an easy one to solve.