Jack the Ripper is an unidentified serial killer believed to be responsible for murders in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.
The name "Jack The Ripper" was in a letter written by someone claiming to be the murderer.
It has been widely populated in media. It was also believed to have been a hoax and may have been written by some of the Media persons in an attempt to make the people interested just for their news papers circulation.
This Killer was also called as "The Whitechapel Murderer" and "Leather Apron" in cases filed in Police department and some of the Media accounts. He was The most famous serial killer ever, who stalked the streets of London and murdered prostitutes in gruesome, horrible ways. We do know that he killed at least 5 women and was within seconds of getting caught. Letters were forwarded to the police, in which Jack taunts them and goes on about how he’ll keep killing, but these are believed to have been fakes.
Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge. Rumors that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and letters were received by media outlets and Scotland Yard from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer. The "From Hell" letter received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee included half of a preserved human kidney.The opinion offered by police surgeon Thomas Bond on the character of the "Whitechapel murderer" says all five murders no doubt were committed by the same hand. In the first four the throats appear to have been cut from left to right, in the last case owing to the extensive mutilation it is impossible to say in what direction the fatal cut was made, but arterial blood was found on the wall in splashes close to where the woman's head must have been lying.
Do you know that Jack the Ripper was never caught.
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