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Who Was Jack The Ripper?
Jack the Ripper was a murderer who has killed a minimum of five prostitutes in London. From what we know, he had killed Mary Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Kelly. The murders all around the Whitechapel district started on August 10 and ended September 10 1888. The bodies seemed to be tortured and cut up in an unusual way, which showed that Jack the Ripper had an understanding of the human body. He would send letters to the Central News Agency about how he was the killer and he would constantly taunt the police about how they would not find out who he was. The police believed that the letters were fake, but once the Ripper did something he said he would, it caused panic to arise throughout the city. Jack the Ripper is one of the most …show more content…
One of the most known suspects is James Maybrick. He married a woman named Florence Chandler and they had two kids together but they soon became divorced after she was caught cheating on him. James Maybrick seemed to be having many affairs while he was with his wife but when his wife found out, she decided she should get him back and have an affair with another man the same way he would have affairs with other women. According to jack-the-ripper.org, “The subsequent rage that he experienced following this sighting sent him on a murderous rampage in the Whitechapel district of London in the course of which he mutilated and killed five prostitutes” (James Maybrick). He was said to have caught his wife in bed with another man and that seemed to have caused all his anger to go out on all female prostitutes. Jacktherippertour.com says that the killings were all caused by revenge and hatred towards his cheating wife, Florence (Spotlight on James Maybrick). The killings were all to women prostitutes because he believed that all women wanted to cheat and since prostitutes do sexual favors for money, he believed that he should kill female

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