International murder casebook
One of the most fascinating and intriguing and of course interesting crime cases in the world is that of the Jack the Ripper. Who was he? It has not been solved to this day…. Many books…many articles and many writings have been done in the past many decades about him.
Jack the Ripper is the popular name of the unknown killer who terrorised London between August and November of 1888. (He was also called the Whitecha-pel murderer, after the city district where he operated.)
The exact details of the case are uncertain: five women are generally considered to be definite victims of the Ripper, though there may have been more or less. All were strangled and then had their throats cut and many were further
mutilated.
The nickname Jack the Ripper came from the signature on a letter, possibly authentic, sent to a news agency during the rampage.
The killings stopped as abruptly as they began, and London police were unable to solve the case or find a firm suspect.
The case was closed officially in 1892, but the mysterious anonymity of the killer has kept the case in the public eye ever since.
Many books have been written claiming to solve the crime. Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution, a 1976 book by Stephen Knight, best-selling writer suggested that the murders were meant to silence women who were blackmailing Prince Eddy, a grandson of Queen Vic.
Author Patricia Cornwell’s 2002 book Portrait of a Killer claimed that Jack the Ripper was actually Walter Sickert, an Impressionist painter.
The moniker “Jack the Ripper” originates from a letter written by someone who claimed to be the Whitechapel butcher, published at the time of the attacks.
Jack the Ripper was never captured, and remains one of England’s, and the worlds, most infamous criminals.
The murders of five women all took place within a mile of each other, and involved the districts of Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Aldgate and the City of London in London’s East End.
Despite countless investigations claiming definitive evidence of the brutal killer’s identity, his name and motive are still unknown.
