"Elizabeth Stride Elizabeth ""Long Liz"" Stride (née Gustafsdotter; 27 November 1843 – 30 September 1888) is believed to have been a victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer called Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated several women in the Whitechapel area of London from late August to early November 1888. Stride was nicknamed ""Long Liz"". Several explanations have been given for this pseudonym; some believe it came from her married surname ""Stride"" because a stride is a long step, while others believe it was either because of her height, or the shape of her face. At the time of"
"Between 1888 and 1891, the deaths of eleven women in or around the Whitechapel district of the East End of London were linked together in a single police investigation known as the ""Whitechapel murders"". Seven of the victims suffered a slash to the throat, and in four cases the bodies were mutilated after death. Five of the cases, between August and November 1888, show such marked similarities that they are generally agreed to be the work of a single serial killer, known as ""Jack the Ripper"". Despite an extensive police investigation, the Ripper was never identified and the crimes remained"
"noted. Traditionally, five murders (known as the ""canonical five"") are attributed to the notorious serial killer ""Jack the Ripper"", who terrorised Whitechapel in the East End of London between August and November 1888. Authorities are not agreed on the exact number of the Ripper's victims, and at least eleven Whitechapel murders between April 1888 and February 1891 were included in the same extensive police investigation. All the crimes remain unsolved. Claims that Bury could have been the Ripper began to appear in newspapers shortly after Bury's arrest. Like Bury, the Ripper had inflicted abdominal wounds on his victims immediately after"
"Whitechapel district of London. Although Whitechapel was an impoverished area and violence there was common, these murders can be linked to the same killer through a distinctive ""modus operandi"". All the murders took place within the distance of a few streets, late at night or in the early morning, and the victims were all women whose throats were cut. In four of the cases, their bodies were mutilated, or even eviscerated. The removal of internal organs from three of the victims led to contemporary proposals that ""considerable anatomical knowledge was displayed by the murderer, which would seem to indicate that"
"when they were used up. Moral reform movements attempted to close down brothels, something that has sometimes been argued to have been a factor in the concentration of street-prostitution. The extent of prostitution in London in the 1880s gained national and global prominence through the highly publicised murders attributed to Whitechapel based serial killer Jack the Ripper, whose victims were exclusively prostitutes living destitute in the East End. Given that many prostitutes were living in poverty as late as the 1880s and 1890s, offering sex services was a source of desperate necessity to fund their meals and temporary lodging accommodation"
"to be a hot topic of discussion, the killer will likely never be identified. Metropolitan Police Service files show that their investigation into the serial killings encompassed eleven separate murders between 1888 and 1891, known in the police docket as the ""Whitechapel murders"". Five of these—the murders of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly—are generally agreed to be the work of a single killer, known as ""Jack the Ripper"". They occurred between August and November 1888 within a few streets of each other, and are collectively called the ""canonical five"". The six other"
"From Hell letter The ""From Hell"" letter (also called the ""Lusk letter"") is a letter that was posted in 1888 along with half a human kidney by a person who claimed to be the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated at least five female victims in the Whitechapel area of London over a period of several months. The exact number of victims has never been proven, and the identity of the perpetrator has remained unsolved. The letter was postmarked on 15 October 1888 and was received the following day by George Lusk, the chairman of"
"Catherine Eddowes Catherine ""Kate"" Eddowes (14 April 1842 – 30 September 1888) was one of the victims in the Whitechapel murders. She was the second person killed in the early hours of Sunday 30 September 1888, a night which already had seen the murder of Elizabeth Stride less than an hour earlier. These two murders are commonly referred to as the ""double event"" and have been attributed to an unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. Eddowes, also known as ""Kate Conway"" and ""Kate Kelly"" after her two successive common-law husbands, was born in Graisley Green, Wolverhampton on 14"
"was convicted of murdering 13 women (and wounding seven others), mainly those who worked as prostitutes, over a period of five years from 1975 to 1980 in northern England; and to ""Jack the Ripper"", the infamous Victorian serial murderer who also targeted prostitutes. As with previous serial killers dating back to Jack the Ripper, many sections of the media have attempted to coin a name for the presumed murderer, using the ""Suffolk Strangler"", and other terms to refer to the case. A reward was offered, first by local business Call Connection, who initially offered £25,000 and later raised it to"
"reintroduced ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" to his schedule and added performances between October 10 and October 20. On August 7, 1888, three days after the Lyceum opening of ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", Martha Tabram was discovered stabbed to death in London's Whitechapel neighborhood. On August 31 Mary Ann Nichols was found, murdered and mutilated, in the same neighborhood. Press coverage linking these and other Whitechapel murders of women created a furor in London. The public and police suspected that some or all of the murders were committed by one person, who became known as Jack the Ripper. Some"
"generally attributed to ""Jack the Ripper"", whose identity remains unknown, while the perpetrator(s) of the remaining six cannot be verified or are disputed. After the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes in the early morning hours of 30 September 1888, police searched the area near the crime scenes in an effort to locate a suspect, witnesses or evidence. At about 3:00 a.m., Constable Alfred Long of the Metropolitan Police Force discovered a dirty, bloodstained piece of an apron in the stairwell of a tenement, 108 to 119 Model dwellings, Goulston Street, Whitechapel. The cloth was later confirmed as being"
"ineffectiveness of London's constabulary, and prompted vigilante patrols in the affected areas. A local haberdasher and his accomplice were captured and tried for the attacks. A second attacker nicknamed ""Whipping Tom"" was active in late 1712 in Hackney, then a rural village outside London. This attacker would approach lone women in the countryside, and beat them on the buttocks with a birch rod. Around 70 attacks were carried out before a local man named Thomas Wallis was captured and confessed to the attacks. Although no record exists of any similar attacks prior to 1681 or of the nickname ""Whipping Tom"""
"is no waxwork figure of Jack the Ripper at Madame Tussauds' Chamber of Horrors, unlike murderers of lesser fame, in accordance with their policy of not modelling persons whose likeness is unknown. He is instead depicted as a shadow. In 2006, ""BBC History"" magazine and its readers selected Jack the Ripper as the worst Briton in history. Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. In both the criminal case files and"
"West of England M.P., now believed to have been Henry Richard Farquharson, was mentioned in a newspaper article as claiming that Jack the Ripper, the infamous murderer in the impoverished Whitechapel District in the East End of London, was the son of a surgeon and that he committed suicide after he had committed murder of Mary Jane Kelly on the night of 9 November 1888. It is believed that the reference was to Montague John Druitt, a fellow West County man, who committed suicide at the end of November 1888 and whose body was retrieved from the Thames at Chiswick"
"John Christie (murderer) John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953), known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight people – including his wife, Ethel – by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Christie moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953; soon afterward the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in a wallpaper-covered alcove in the kitchen. Two further bodies were discovered in the garden, and his"
"Emma Elizabeth Smith Emma Elizabeth Smith (c. 1843 – 4 April 1888) was a prostitute and murder victim of mysterious origins in late-19th century London. Her killing was the first of the Whitechapel murders, and it is possible she was a victim of the notorious serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, though this is considered unlikely by most modern authors. Smith's life prior to her murder in 1888 remains mysterious. Police files were gathered during the investigation, but most of these are missing, apparently taken, mislaid or discarded from the Metropolitan Police archive before the transfer of papers to"
"London Monster The London Monster was the name given to an alleged attacker of women in London between 1788 and 1790. The attacker had a signature behaviour of piquerism, the pricking or stabbing of victims with a knife, pin or needle. The first reports of the Monster appeared in 1788. According to the victims (most of them from wealthier families), a large man had followed them, shouted obscenities and stabbed them in the buttocks. Some reports claimed an attacker had knives fastened to his knees. Other accounts reported that he would invite prospective victims to smell a fake nosegay and"
"Hammersmith nude murders The Hammersmith nude murders were a series of murders in London, England, in 1964 and 1965. The victimsall prostituteswere found undressed in or near the River Thames, leading the press to nickname the killer Jack the Stripper (a reference to ""Jack the Ripper""). Two earlier murders, committed in 1959 and 1963, have also been linked by some investigators to the same perpetrator. Despite ""intense media interest and one of the biggest manhunts in Scotland Yard's history"" the case is unsolved. All forensic evidence gathered at the time is believed to have been destroyed or lost. Figg was"
"conviction. John Christie (murderer) John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953), known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight people – including his wife, Ethel – by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Christie moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953; soon afterward the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in a wallpaper-covered alcove in the kitchen. Two further bodies were discovered in the garden, and"
"the Whitechapel murderer is unknown, and over one hundred suspects, in addition to Bury, have been proposed. While some Ripper writers consider Bury a more likely culprit than many of the other suspects, other writers dismiss the theory because, ""as happens all too frequently in this field, the theorizing appears to have a few disturbing leaps of logic as well as mere anecdotes used as evidence."" William Henry Bury William Henry Bury (25 May 1859 – 24 April 1889) was suspected of being the notorious serial killer ""Jack the Ripper"". He was hanged for the murder of his wife Ellen"
"was imprisoned. London Monster The London Monster was the name given to an alleged attacker of women in London between 1788 and 1790. The attacker had a signature behaviour of piquerism, the pricking or stabbing of victims with a knife, pin or needle. The first reports of the Monster appeared in 1788. According to the victims (most of them from wealthier families), a large man had followed them, shouted obscenities and stabbed them in the buttocks. Some reports claimed an attacker had knives fastened to his knees. Other accounts reported that he would invite prospective victims to smell a fake"
"the same person. Eleven separate murders, stretching from 1888 to 1891, were included in a London Metropolitan Police Service investigation and were known collectively in the police docket as the ""Whitechapel murders"". Opinions vary as to whether these murders should be linked to the same culprit, but five of the eleven Whitechapel murders, known as the ""canonical five"", are widely believed to be the work of Jack the Ripper. Most experts point to deep throat slashes, abdominal and genital-area mutilation, removal of internal organs, and progressive facial mutilations as the distinctive features of the Ripper's ""modus operandi"". The first two"
"Margaret Waters Margaret Waters was an English serial killer hanged by executioner William Calcraft on 11 October 1870 at Horsemonger Lane Gaol (also known as Surrey County Gaol) in London. Waters was born in 1835 and lived in Brixton. She was known for baby farming, that is, taking in other women's children for money; a practice often resulting in infanticide. Waters drugged and starved the infants in her care and is believed to have killed at least 19 children. Charged with five counts of wilful murder as well as neglect and conspiracy, Waters was convicted of murdering an infant named"
"Peter Sutcliffe Peter William Coonan (born Peter William Sutcliffe; 2 June 1946) is an English serial killer who was dubbed the ""Yorkshire Ripper"" by the press. In 1981 Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others. Sutcliffe had allegedly regularly used the services of prostitutes in Leeds and Bradford. When interviewed by authorities, he claimed that the voice of God had sent him on a mission to kill prostitutes. Sutcliffe carried out his murder spree over five years, during which time the public were especially shocked by the murders of women who were not prostitutes."
"as the Whitechapel murders, prompted further redevelopment. Two of those women murdered, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, resided in two common lodging-houses on the street. A study using geographical profiling suggested that the killer probably lived on the street. The scandal of the killings prompted 'respectable' landlords to divest themselves of property here and all traces of the street were virtually eradicated between 1891 and 1894 in a major slum clearance programme. There is now a housing block where the street used to be. A 2008 Scotland Yard geographical profile of Jack the Ripper concluded that he most probably lived"
"Street was called ""the worst street in London"". Assistant Police Commissioner Robert Anderson recommended Whitechapel to ""those who take an interest in the dangerous classes"" as one of London's prime criminal ""show places"". Robbery and violence were commonplace. The district was characterised by extreme poverty, sub-standard housing, homelessness, drunkenness and endemic prostitution. These factors were focused in the institution of the common lodging-house, which provided cheap communal lodgings for the desperate and the destitute, among whom the Whitechapel murder victims were numbered. All the identified victims lived in the heart of the rookery in Spitalfields, including three in George Street"
"Ripper in the autumn of 1888. The murder was the climax of a series of slayings of prostitutes that became known as the Whitechapel Murders. The sanguinary activities of ""Jack"" was one of the factors which prompted the demolition of some of the worst streets in the area 1891–94. Deprivation continued and was brought to notice by social commentators such as Jack London in his ""The People of the Abyss"" (1903). He highlighted 'Itchy Park', next to Christ Church, Spitalfields, as a notorious rendezvous for homeless vagrants. In the late 20th century the Jewish presence diminished and was replaced by"
"Benjamin Atkins Benjamin ""Tony"" Atkins (August 26, 1968 – September 17, 1997), also known as the Woodward Corridor Killer, was an American serial killer and rapist who murdered, tortured, and raped 11 women in Highland Park and Detroit, Michigan, during a period of nine months between December 1991 and August 1992. All the victims were found in vacant buildings, all had been raped and strangled. Most of them had been murdered in the suburb of Highland Park. Many of the victims were working as prostitutes, and Atkins said he was motivated by a hatred of prostitution. During his trial, it"
"of the Metropolitan Police Service and Head of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), wrote a report that stated: ""the Whitechapel murderer had 5 victims—& 5 victims only"". Similarly, the canonical five victims were linked together in a letter written by police surgeon Thomas Bond to Robert Anderson, head of the London CID, on 1888. Some researchers have posited that some of the murders were undoubtedly the work of a single killer but an unknown larger number of killers acting independently were responsible for the others. Authors Stewart P. Evans and Donald Rumbelow argue that the canonical five is a ""Ripper"
"John Wayne Glover John Wayne Glover (26 November 1932 – 9 September 2005) was an English Australian serial killer convicted of the murders of six elderly women, including Winifreda, Lady Ashton, widow of the famous English-Australian impressionist painter Sir Will Ashton (MBE), on Sydney's North Shore. Over a 14-month period in 1989/90, Glover killed six elderly women, for which he was dubbed in the press as the ""Granny Killer"". Following his arrest in 1990, he admitted to the murders and was sentenced to consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He committed suicide by hanging himself in"
"of the city centre. The Home Secretary, a senior minister of the United Kingdom government, controlled the Metropolitan Police, whereas the City Police were responsible to the Corporation of London. Beat constables walked regular, timed routes. Eleven deaths in or near Whitechapel between 1888 and 1891 were gathered into a single file, referred to in the police docket as the Whitechapel murders. Much of the original material has been either stolen or destroyed. On Tuesday 3 April 1888, following the Easter Monday bank holiday, prostitute Emma Elizabeth Smith was assaulted and robbed at the junction of Osborn Street and Brick"
"new location) on a crime scene related to an unsolved murder. The mystery is referenced in the third episode of the third series of ""Whitechapel"" and also in Chapter 8 of Anthony Horowitz' ""Sunday Times"" Bestseller ""Moriarty"". Whitehall Mystery The Whitehall Mystery is an unsolved murder that took place in London in 1888. The dismembered remains of a woman were discovered at three different sites in the centre of the city, including the future site of Scotland Yard, the police's headquarters. The incident belongs to the so-called Thames Torso Murders of 1887–89. On 2 October 1888, during construction of the"
"Whipping Tom ""Whipping Tom"" was the nickname given to two sexual attackers in London and the nearby village of Hackney. Both would attack women walking alone and beat them on the buttocks. While there is some evidence that an earlier attacker in around 1672 was also nicknamed ""Whipping Tom"" and carried out similar attacks on women, the earliest recorded attacker of this nature was active in central London in 1681. He would approach unaccompanied women in alleys and courtyards and spank them on the buttocks, before fleeing. The inability of the authorities to apprehend the offender caused complaints about the"