who was "Jack the Ripper"?

Answer 1

I love how all these people cut and pasted the same article from wikipedia. What a bunch of morons.

Answer 2

Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings.

The legends surrounding the Ripper murders have become a combination of genuine historical research, conspiracy theory and folklore. The lack of a confirmed identity for the killer has allowed Ripperologists — the term used within the field for the authors, historians and amateur detectives who study the case — to accuse a wide variety of individuals of being the Ripper. Newspapers, whose circulation had been growing during this era, bestowed widespread and enduring notoriety on the killer owing to the savagery of the attacks and the failure of the police in their attempts to capture the Ripper, sometimes missing the murderer at his crime scenes by mere minutes.

Victims were women earning income as casual prostitutes. Typical Ripper murders were perpetrated in a public or semi-public place; the victim's throat was cut, after which the body was mutilated. Some believe that the victims were first strangled in order to silence them. The removal of internal organs from some victims has led to the proposal that the killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge or skill. Though many diverse theories have been advanced, the world may never know the true identity of Jack the Ripper.

Answer 3

Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings.

The legends surrounding the Ripper murders have become a combination of genuine historical research, conspiracy theory and folklore. The lack of a confirmed identity for the killer has allowed Ripperologists — the term used within the field for the authors, historians and amateur detectives who study the case — to accuse a wide variety of individuals of being the Ripper. Newspapers, whose circulation had been growing during this era, bestowed widespread and enduring notoriety on the killer owing to the savagery of the attacks and the failure of the police in their attempts to capture the Ripper, sometimes missing the murderer at his crime scenes by mere minutes.

Victims were women earning income as casual prostitutes. Typical Ripper murders were perpetrated in a public or semi-public place; the victim's throat was cut, after which the body was mutilated. Some believe that the victims were first strangled in order to silence them. The removal of internal organs from some victims has led to the proposal that the killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge or skill. Though many diverse theories have been advanced, the world may never know the true identity of Jack the Ripper.

Answer 4

Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings.

The legends surrounding the Ripper murders have become a combination of genuine historical research, conspiracy theory and folklore. The lack of a confirmed identity for the killer has allowed Ripperologists — the term used within the field for the authors, historians and amateur detectives who study the case — to accuse a wide variety of individuals of being the Ripper. Newspapers, whose circulation had been growing during this era, bestowed widespread and enduring notoriety on the killer owing to the savagery of the attacks and the failure of the police in their attempts to capture the Ripper, sometimes missing the murderer at his crime scenes by mere minutes.

Victims were women earning income as casual prostitutes. Typical Ripper murders were perpetrated in a public or semi-public place; the victim's throat was cut, after which the body was mutilated. Some believe that the victims were first strangled in order to silence them. The removal of internal organs from some victims has led to the proposal that the killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge or skill. Though many diverse theories have been advanced, the world may never know the true identity of Jack the Ripper.

Answer 5

Go to this site

www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-pamandsickert.html

If you can't get it do a Google search on Patricia Cornwell and find the link between her and Jack the Ripper. Sh wrote a book called 'Portrait of a Killer' that proves that he was Walter Richard Sickert, a minor English artist. Patricia has researched extensively and there is loads of evidenced both for Sickert's guilt and clearing others who had been suspected. Some of the evidence includes DNA and fingerprinting techniques which weren't around in 1888. Many people think that the ripper murders were only the 5 in that year but Sickert continued long after, even in France which he visited regularly. In 1888 many letters were sent to Scotland Yard by the Ripper containing details that only he would have known. DNA tests have proven that the stamps on the letters were licked by Sickert and bloody fingerprints on other evidence were his. Sadly in those days prostitutes were considered as lowlife and the police washed away any evidence with hosepipes as they cleared the blood. Despite popular belief organs removed from the bodies were not done so with clinical precision, they were ripped out (Hence the nickname) and there are several gruesome photographs in |the book that show this. This misconception was to make many think that a surgeon, possible the queens, had performed the murders.

Answer 6

Jack the Ripper was a murderer back over a hundred years ago. He killed hookers. They never did solve the mystery of who Jack the Ripper was, and he just stopped killing with no answer as to why he started, or why he stopped. If you are interested in a good book about Jack the Ripper, Patricia Cornwell wrote a really good book about him. She has pictures and even gives a hypothetical answer as to who Jack the Ripper really was. I don't remember the books name but do a search on amazon for patricia cornwell and you'll find it...other than her cookbooks its the only book she has that isn't a work of fiction.

Answer 7

Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings.

The legends surrounding the Ripper murders have become a combination of genuine historical research, conspiracy theory and folklore. The lack of a confirmed identity for the killer has allowed Ripperologists — the term used within the field for the authors, historians and amateur detectives who study the case — to accuse a wide variety of individuals of being the Ripper. Newspapers, whose circulation had been growing during this era, bestowed widespread and enduring notoriety on the killer owing to the savagery of the attacks and the failure of the police in their attempts to capture the Ripper, sometimes missing the murderer at his crime scenes by mere minutes.

Victims were women earning income as casual prostitutes. Typical Ripper murders were perpetrated in a public or semi-public place; the victim's throat was cut, after which the body was mutilated. Some believe that the victims were first strangled in order to silence them. The removal of internal organs from some victims has led to the proposal that the killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge or skill. Though many diverse theories have been advanced, the world may never know the true identity of Jack the Ripper.

Answer 8

Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings.

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Answer 9

Funny Stephen P, I totally agree
Jack the Ripper??? he was a sicko

Answer 10

Nobody know - all sorts of speculations going from a religious zealot up to the British Royal familly - typical urban legend crosbred with conspiracy theories.