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5 days ago · FINDING MARY NICHOLS BODY. At 3.30 a.m. on August 31st, 1888, Charles Cross left his home in Doveton Street, Bethnal Green, and set off to walk to his place of work at Pickford's, near Liverpool Street, where he was employed as a carman or delivery driver. Heading along Brady Street, he turned into Buck's Row and commenced walking along its ...
4 days ago · The Whitechapel murders took place in the East End of London between April, 1888 and February, 1891. There were eleven Whitechapel murders victims, of whom five are believed to have been victims of the killer who became known as "Jack the Ripper.". The murders were investigated by two police forces, the Metropolitan Police and the City of ...
4 days ago · Charles Cross was the man who found the body of Jack the Ripper victim Mary Nichols at around 3.40am on August 31st, 1888. He was, in fact, on his way to work when he made his gruesome discovery in Buck's Row, Whitechapel. In recent years, however, his name has turned up on the ever growing list of Jack the Ripper suspects..
May 6, 2024 · One of the more bizarre aspects of the Jack the Ripper case is the number of letters that the police, newspapers, authorities and notable citizens received from anonymous members of the public either offering information on the best way to apprehend the killer, or else purporting to come from the murderer himself.
3 days ago · Site of the Mary Nichols murder - August 31st, 1888. We continue our video tour of the murder sites with a visit to Durward Street (formerly Buck's Row) where, at 3.40am on August 31st 1888, the body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Nichols, was found at around 3.40am by a carter named Charles Cross, who was on his way to work.
May 13, 2024 · One aspect of the police investigation into the Jack the Ripper killings that was radically different to how a murder enquiry might be handled today was that the police didn’t make a great deal of use of the press. Indeed, there had long been a certain amount of distrust towards the press in police circles. In the early days of the CID Howard ...
5 days ago · JACK THE RIPPER'S SECOND VICTIM. Annie Chapman (1841 - 1888) led a somewhat nomadic existence around Spitalfields. She was 47 years old at the time of her death, a short plump, ashen-faced consumptive who, for four or so months prior to her death, had been living at Crossingham's lodging house at number 35 Dorset Street where she paid eight ...
