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    Mary Pearcey (1866 – 23 December 1890) was an English woman who was convicted of murdering her lover's wife, Mrs. Phoebe Hogg, and child, Tiggy, on 24 October 1890 and hanged for the crime on 23 December of the same year. The crime is sometimes mentioned in connection with Jack the Ripper, and Pearcey has been posited as a Ripper candidate.

  2. Jul 9, 2021 · Mary Pearcey was a 19th-century murderess who killed a new mother and her baby in 1890. She was also one of the few women considered by police to be the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper, who mutilated five women in London in 1888.

  3. Jan 6, 2012 · Mary Pearcey was a convicted murderer who killed a woman and her child in 1890. Some authors and criminologists suspect she was also Jack the Ripper, based on the similarity of the throat wounds and her cryptic ad in Madrid.

  4. Sep 9, 2014 · A book author claims to have solved the Jack the Ripper mystery by DNA analysis of a shawl found at a crime scene. He identifies the killer as Aaron Kosminski, a Polish immigrant and a suspect in the case, but some Ripperologists are skeptical of his evidence.

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  5. Jun 8, 2018 · Learn about the early life of Mary Pearcey, who killed her lover's wife and child in 1890, and how it intersects with mental health, class, and gender issues. Explore her birth, family, marriage, and the superstitions of the era.

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  6. May 18, 2024 · Mary Pearcey was a notorious murderess who killed her lover's wife and baby in 1890. She was also suggested as a possible suspect for the Jack the Ripper crimes by author William Stewart in 1939.

  7. Mary Eleanor Wheeler Pearcey. Mary Eleanor Wheeler was born in 1866 and little is known of her early life, except that when she was fourteen years of age her father Thomas Wheeler was hanged on the 29 November 1880 at St Albans prison, for the murder of a local farmer Edward Anstee.

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