Was 'Jack The Ripper' a real person, and if so, could you tell me about him?

Answer 1

He was a real person. I don't remember specific details, but he was commisioned by the Prince of England to go and kill prostitutes with whom the Prince had slept. He would remove certain body parts, namely the uterus, in order to destroy any evidence of the Prince's debauchery.

Answer 2

He was a real person, we just don't know for sure exactly who he was. You could say he was the first serial killer that the world heard of. Between August and November 1888, a person killed prostitutes in London, in a particularly brutal fashion. The Ripper seemed to follow a fairly regimented modus operandi when dispatching his victims. In many cases there seems to be evidence of strangulation, followed by the severance of the carotid artery, which caused near-immediate death. Then he performed various abdominal/genital/facial mutilations, to varying degrees. On some victims there were only a few cuts and stab wounds, while others were mutilated beyond recognition.

Since he was never caught, we can never know for sure how many women fell victim to the Ripper. The generally accepted number is five, though it could be as few as three and as many as seven. The “canonical” five victims are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. Certain theorists have discarded Stride and Kelly from this list, while others have added to it, contending that Martha Tabram and Alice Mackenzie were likely Ripper victims as well. Other theorists have suggested as many as ten, fourteen or even up to thirty or more victims, but with very flimsy evidence.

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.

Answer 4

Yes, indeed, "Jack the Ripper" was a real person. He was a serial killer in Brittain who murdered prostitutes. "Jack" was never identified, but definitely existed.

There's a ton of information about these cases on the Internet and in libraries everywhere, but here's a good and thorough start:

http://www.met.police.uk/history/ripper.htm

Answer 5

yes, Jack the ripper was a real person. here is a site that i found helpful on the subject.

http://www.casebook.org/intro.html

Answer 6

he was a real person who murdered several " Ladies of the Evening " in London, England. there are numerous books and articles about him and there is also a " Jack the Ripper Tour " one can take if one goes to London.

Answer 7

Yes, he existed, and killed 5-6 women in the autumn of 1888 before disappearing from history without ever being identified.

For the record, Patricia Cornwell's book is terrible, and her theory is widely considered a joke

Answer 8

He was also called the Whitechapel murderer. No one knows his real identity as forensics and CSIs in that era were nonexistant.

Patricia Cornwell published a book in which she incorrectly names an artist as the real killer when he wasn't even in London at the time to commit the murders. Most historians agree that she fabricated her evidence and ignored anything she didn't like.

Answer 9

Yeah, he was a real person who brutally murdered 5 or 6 prostitutes in 19th Century England. But there was no arrest made.

Answer 10

Yes, he was a real guy who murdered prostitutes in the Whitehall section of London in the late 1800s. It was never discovered who he was and theories have ranged from a doctor to a nobleman to an artist (the most plausible theory, in my opinion). There is a great book by Patricia Cornwell that goes through the many theories and their holes and who she thinks it is (the artist, btw).