Jack the Ripper was a serial killer who murdered and mutilated women in Whitechapel, London in 1888. The five canonical victims were Mary Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Kelly. The killer's methods became increasingly violent, severing throats and disemboweling victims. Letters were sent to authorities from someone claiming to be the killer, including one sending half a preserved kidney. However, the killer was never identified.

1. Jack the
Ripper

2.  “Jack the Ripper” is the name given to a serial
killer.
 He attacked around the Whitechapel district of
London in 1.888.

5. Vice
Villainy
Social Unrest
Squalor Disease

6. Victims
 Although the exact number of victims most
frequently bandied around is five the actual
Jack the Ripper crimes has the names of
eleven victims on it, some of whom were
victims of Jack the Ripper, some of whom may
have been, and several of whom most certainly
weren't.

7. THE CANONICAL FIVE VICTIMS
 Mary Nichols - Murdered on 31st August 1888
 Annie Chapman - Murdered on 8th September 1888
 Elizabeth Stride - Murdered on 30th September 1888
 Catherine Eddowes - Murdered on 30th September
1888
 Mary Kelly - Murdered on 9th November 1888

8. Mary Ann Nichols
 Domestic servant – Casual prostitute.
 31-08 03:40 Charles Cross
 In front of a gated stable entrance in Buck's Row (since renamed Durward
Street),
 Her throat had been slit twice from left to right and her abdomen
mutilated with one deep jagged wound, several incisions across the
abdomen, and three or four similar cuts on the right side caused by the
same knife at least 6–8 inches (15–20 cm) long used violently and
downwards.

9. Annie Chapman
 Flower seller – Crocheter – Casual prostitute
 6:00 a.m. 8-9-1888 by a resident of number 29, John Davis.
 Near a doorway in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields.
 The throat was severed by two cuts. The abdomen was slashed entirely
open, and it was later discovered that the uterus had been removed.

10. Elizabeth Stride
 Cleaner – Casual prostitute.
 30-9 1 a.m Louis Diemschutz
 In the adjacent Dutfield's Yard. It appeared that she was killed just
moments before he arrived. Between 12:30 and 12:50 a.m.
 She had no mutilations beyond her slit throat. It is possible that the killer
was interrupted before he had the opportunity to mutilate the body.

11. Catherin Eddowes
 Hop-Picker – Casual prostitute.
 30-9 1:45 (An hour later Stride’s murder) by the square's beat policeman
PC Edward Watkins.
 In the south-west corner of Mitre Square.
 The throat was severed, and the abdomen was ripped open by a long,
deep, jagged wound. The left kidney and the major part of the uterus had
been removed.

12. A clue?
 A writing on the wall above the apron piece, which became known as the
Goulston Street graffito, seemed to implicate a Jew or Jews, but it was
unclear whether the graffito was written by the murderer as he dropped
the apron piece, or merely incidental.
 “The Juwes are the men that will not be blame for nothing”
 Police Commissioner Charles Warren feared the graffito might spark anti-
semitic riots, and ordered it washed away before dawn.

13. Mary Jane Kelly
 Prostitute.
 9-11-88 Lord Mayor's Day celebrations. Shortly after 10.45 a.m.
 Her bed by Thomas Bowyer.
 The throat had been severed down to the spine, and the abdomen almost
emptied of its organs. The heart was missing.

14. Canonical five murders: Things in
common.
 The five murders were perpetrated at night, on or close to a weekend,
either at the end of a month or a week (or so) after. The mutilations
became increasingly severe as the series of murders proceeded, except for
that of Stride, whose attacker may have been interrupted. Nichols was not
missing any organs; Chapman's uterus was taken; Eddowes had her uterus
and a kidney removed and her face mutilated; and Kelly's body was
eviscerated and her face hacked away, though only her heart was missing
from the crime scene.

15. Before the canonical five.
 Jack the Ripper’s file also contains the names of two victims who were
murdered before Mary Nichols.
 The first victim was Emma Elizabeth Smith, who was attacked in the early
hours of the 3rd April 1888. She had had a stick or other blunt object
shoved into her abdomen.
 Martha Tabram (7-8-88) was found in George Yard, off Whitechapel High
Street. She had suffered 39 frenzied stab wounds to her throat, chest and
abdomen.

16. Other Alleged victims.
 Ada Wilson – Annie Farmer-
 "The Whitehall Mystery“ 2-10-88. A headless torso in the basement of the
new Metropolitan Police headquarters being built in Whitehall.
 John Gill: 7-year-old boy. In Manningham, Bradford, on 29-12-88.
 Carrie Brown: 24-4-91 in NYC.

17. Later Whitechapel murders
 Rose Mylett: was found strangled in Clarke's Yard, High Street, Poplar on
20-12. As there was no sign of a struggle, the police believed that she had
accidentally hanged herself on her collar while in a drunken stupor, or
committed suicide.
 Alice McKenzie: was killed on 17-7-89 by severance of the left carotid
artery. Several minor bruises and cuts were found on the body, discovered
in Castle Alley, Whitechapel.
 The Pichin Street torso: an unidentified woman found under a railway arch
in Pinchin Street, Whitechapel, on 10-9-89. Parts of the dismembered body
were dispersed for disposal?
 Frances Coles: 13-2-91 under a railway arch at Swallow Gardens,
Whitechapel. Her throat was cut but the body was not mutilated.

18. Letter from Hell
 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.
 on Tuesday October 16th 1888, a small package was delivered to Lusk in
the evening post. The parcel contained a foul smelling piece of kidney
together with a letter.

19. Letter from Hell
 From hell
 Mr Lusk
 Sor
 I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you
tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise I may send you the bloody knif
that took it out if you only wate a whil longer
 signed Catch me when you Can
 Mishter Lusk”

20. Letter sent to Sir Charles Warren, the
Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
 Dear Sir
 I do wish to give myself up I am in misery with nightmare I am the man
who committed all these murders in the last six months...I am a horse
slauterer...I have found the woman I wanted that is chapman and I done
what I called slautered her but if any one comes I will surrender...
 The letter contained crude illustrations one showing a coffin and the other
showing a knife, both of which were drawn in heavy black ink. Beneath the
knife the letter's author had written:-
 ...this is the knife that I done these murders with it is a small handle with a
large long blade sharpe both sides