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8/31/2007, 05:48 AM
August 31, 1888 Jack the Ripper claims first victim
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119 years ago tonight, London prostitute Mary Ann Nichols, the first victim of London serial killer "Jack the Ripper," is found murdered and mutilated in Whitechapel's Buck's Row. The East End of London saw four more victims of the murderer during the next few months, but no suspect was ever found.
In Victorian England, London's East End was a teeming slum occupied by nearly a million of the city's poorest citizens. Many women resorted to prostitution, and in 1888 there were estimated to be more than 1,000 prostitutes in Whitechapel. That summer, a serial killer began targeting these women.
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Actual London Metroploitan Police report on Nichols murder on this day in 1888.
On September 8, the killer claimed his second victim, Annie Chapman, and on September 30 two more prostitutes--Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes--were murdered and carved up on the same night.
By then, London's police had determined the pattern of the killings. The murderer, offering to pay for sex, would lure his victims onto a secluded street or square and then cut their throats. As the women rapidly bled to death, he would then brutally mutilate them with the same six-inch knife.
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The police, who lacked modern forensic techniques such as fingerprinting and blood typing, were at a complete loss for suspects. Dozens of letters allegedly written by the murderer were sent to the police, and the vast majority of these were immediately deemed fraudulent.
However, two letters--written by the same individual--alluded to crime facts known only to the police and the killer. These letters, signed "Jack the Ripper," gave rise to the serial killer's popular nickname.
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On November 7, after a month of silence, Jack took his fifth and last victim, Irish-born Mary Kelly, an occasional prostitute. Of all his victims' corpses, Kelly's was the most hideously mutilated. In 1892, with no leads found and no more murders recorded, the Jack the Ripper file was closed.
Crime scenes - The Victims
1. Mary Ann Nichols
2. Annie Chapman
3. Elizabeth Stride
4. Catherine Eddowes
5. Mary Jane Kelly
all within a single square mile in London
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In 1988 the FBI prepared a criminal personality profile for the Jack the Ripper murders (Begg, Fido, & Skinner, 1991; Douglas & Olshaker, 1995; The secret identity of Jack the Ripper, 1988). After an analysis of the crime scenes, police and autopsy reports, photographs, victimology, and area demographics, the following key crime scene elements were identified:
blitz attacks and lust murders;
high degree of psychopathology exhibited at the crime scenes;
no evidence of sexual assault;
possible manual strangulation;
postmortem mutilation and organ removal, but no torture;
elaboration of ritual;
victims selected on the basis of accessibility;
all the crimes took place on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, in the early morning hours; and
unreported attacks might have occurred.
With the caution that profiling deals in probabilities and generalities, not certainties, the FBI report suggests Jack the Ripper:
was a white male, 28-36 years of age;
was of average intelligence, lucky not clever;
was single, never married, and had difficulty in interacting with people in general and women in particular;
was nocturnal and not accountable to anyone;
blended in with his surroundings;
had poor personal hygiene, and appeared disheveled;
was personally inadequate with a low self image and diminished emotional responses;
was a quiet loner, withdrawn and asocial;
was of lower social class;
lived or worked in Whitechapel, and committed the crimes close to home;
had a menial job with little or no interaction with the public;
was employed Monday to Friday, possibly as a butcher, mortician's helper, medical examiner's assistant, or hospital attendant (the proximity of London Hospital was noted in the profile);
was the product of a broken home, and lacked consistent care and stable adult role models as a child;
was raised by a dominant female figure who drank heavily, consorted with different men, and physically, possibly sexually, abused him;
set fires and abused animals as a child;
hated, feared, and was intimidated by women;
internalized his anger;
was mentally disturbed and sexually inadequate, with much generalized rage directed against women;
desired power, control, and dominance;
behaved erratically;
engaged in sexually motivated attacks to neuter his victims;
drank in local pubs prior to the murders;
hunted nightly, and was observed walking all over Whitechapel during the early morning hours;
did not have medical knowledge or surgical expertise;
was probably interviewed by police at some point;
did not write any of the Jack the Ripper letters, and would not have publicly challenged the police; and
did not commit suicide after the murders stopped.
On a lighter note, some may be reminded of another Jack T. Ripper.
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http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/5874/insane7zo6hy.jpg
http://img283.imageshack.us/img283/4954/jacktheripper8uq.jpg
119 years ago tonight, London prostitute Mary Ann Nichols, the first victim of London serial killer "Jack the Ripper," is found murdered and mutilated in Whitechapel's Buck's Row. The East End of London saw four more victims of the murderer during the next few months, but no suspect was ever found.
In Victorian England, London's East End was a teeming slum occupied by nearly a million of the city's poorest citizens. Many women resorted to prostitution, and in 1888 there were estimated to be more than 1,000 prostitutes in Whitechapel. That summer, a serial killer began targeting these women.
http://img283.imageshack.us/img283/5189/jacktheripper14lm.th.jpg (http://img283.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jacktheripper14lm.jpg)
Actual London Metroploitan Police report on Nichols murder on this day in 1888.
On September 8, the killer claimed his second victim, Annie Chapman, and on September 30 two more prostitutes--Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes--were murdered and carved up on the same night.
By then, London's police had determined the pattern of the killings. The murderer, offering to pay for sex, would lure his victims onto a secluded street or square and then cut their throats. As the women rapidly bled to death, he would then brutally mutilate them with the same six-inch knife.
http://img283.imageshack.us/img283/4579/pumpkincarvingpatternsjackther.jpg
The police, who lacked modern forensic techniques such as fingerprinting and blood typing, were at a complete loss for suspects. Dozens of letters allegedly written by the murderer were sent to the police, and the vast majority of these were immediately deemed fraudulent.
However, two letters--written by the same individual--alluded to crime facts known only to the police and the killer. These letters, signed "Jack the Ripper," gave rise to the serial killer's popular nickname.
http://img283.imageshack.us/img283/9859/sikkert2kn.jpg
On November 7, after a month of silence, Jack took his fifth and last victim, Irish-born Mary Kelly, an occasional prostitute. Of all his victims' corpses, Kelly's was the most hideously mutilated. In 1892, with no leads found and no more murders recorded, the Jack the Ripper file was closed.
Crime scenes - The Victims
1. Mary Ann Nichols
2. Annie Chapman
3. Elizabeth Stride
4. Catherine Eddowes
5. Mary Jane Kelly
all within a single square mile in London
http://img283.imageshack.us/img283/5641/mapsjr0yv.gif
In 1988 the FBI prepared a criminal personality profile for the Jack the Ripper murders (Begg, Fido, & Skinner, 1991; Douglas & Olshaker, 1995; The secret identity of Jack the Ripper, 1988). After an analysis of the crime scenes, police and autopsy reports, photographs, victimology, and area demographics, the following key crime scene elements were identified:
blitz attacks and lust murders;
high degree of psychopathology exhibited at the crime scenes;
no evidence of sexual assault;
possible manual strangulation;
postmortem mutilation and organ removal, but no torture;
elaboration of ritual;
victims selected on the basis of accessibility;
all the crimes took place on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, in the early morning hours; and
unreported attacks might have occurred.
With the caution that profiling deals in probabilities and generalities, not certainties, the FBI report suggests Jack the Ripper:
was a white male, 28-36 years of age;
was of average intelligence, lucky not clever;
was single, never married, and had difficulty in interacting with people in general and women in particular;
was nocturnal and not accountable to anyone;
blended in with his surroundings;
had poor personal hygiene, and appeared disheveled;
was personally inadequate with a low self image and diminished emotional responses;
was a quiet loner, withdrawn and asocial;
was of lower social class;
lived or worked in Whitechapel, and committed the crimes close to home;
had a menial job with little or no interaction with the public;
was employed Monday to Friday, possibly as a butcher, mortician's helper, medical examiner's assistant, or hospital attendant (the proximity of London Hospital was noted in the profile);
was the product of a broken home, and lacked consistent care and stable adult role models as a child;
was raised by a dominant female figure who drank heavily, consorted with different men, and physically, possibly sexually, abused him;
set fires and abused animals as a child;
hated, feared, and was intimidated by women;
internalized his anger;
was mentally disturbed and sexually inadequate, with much generalized rage directed against women;
desired power, control, and dominance;
behaved erratically;
engaged in sexually motivated attacks to neuter his victims;
drank in local pubs prior to the murders;
hunted nightly, and was observed walking all over Whitechapel during the early morning hours;
did not have medical knowledge or surgical expertise;
was probably interviewed by police at some point;
did not write any of the Jack the Ripper letters, and would not have publicly challenged the police; and
did not commit suicide after the murders stopped.
On a lighter note, some may be reminded of another Jack T. Ripper.
http://img283.imageshack.us/img283/4010/dsripper3bz.jpg
http://img283.imageshack.us/img283/1434/title9hc.jpg
http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/5874/insane7zo6hy.jpg