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The five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper were Mary Ann Nichols (found August 31, 1888), Annie Chapman (found September 8, 1888), Elizabeth Stride (found September 30, 1888), Catherine Eddowes (also found September 30, 1888), and Mary Jane Kelly (found November 9, 1888). All the victims were prostitutes. All of their corpses had been ...
The five aforementioned names most often put forward - and often referred to as the canonical five victims - as having been murdered by the ripper are:-. Mary Nichols - Murdered on 31st August 1888. Annie Chapman - Murdered on 8th September 1888. Elizabeth Stride - Murdered on 30th September 1888.
4 days ago · According to Cornwell's theory Walter Sickert had been made impotent by a series of painful childhood operations for a fistula of the penis. This impotency had scarred him emotionally and had left him with a pathological hatred of women which, in time, led him to carry out a series of murders in the East End of London which became known as the ...
3 days ago · Prince Albert Edward Victor, Lewis Carol, The Freemasons and Dr Barnardo are just a few of the more outlandish Jack the Ripper suspects to have been put forward. Others, such as Thomas Cutbush and Carl Feigenbaum were put forward around the time of the murders, discarded as likely suspects, and then found themselves brought back into the frame ...
Apr 20, 2023 · Since Druitt was the son of a surgeon who had died by suicide in the Thames after Kelly’s death, some contemporary investigators began to believe they’d uncovered Jack the Ripper’s identity. Assistant Chief Constable Sir Melville Macnaghten even named Druitt as one of the most likely suspects in the Whitechapel murders in his private ...
Feb 1, 2024 · Catherine Eddowes. Public DomainCatherine Eddowes, Jack the Ripper’s fifth canonical victim. Catherine Eddowes was found murdered on the morning of Sept. 30, 1888, shortly after Elizabeth Stride’s body was found. But the story of her life differs in many ways from Jack the Ripper’s victims. Born in 1842, Eddowes spent many years of her ...
Aug 18, 2023 · Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane. Though forever linked by the manner of their death, the five women murdered by Jack the Ripper shared something else in common: They were among ...
