15 facts on jack the ripper?

Answer 1

I think its lazy when people answer questions using wikipedia, but the other posters are correct when they say that there are not many 'authentic' facts which exist, regarding Jack the Ripper.

What is known is that five prostitutes were killed in the Whitechapel area of London in 1888. Mocking notes sent at the time, were signed Jack the Ripper (Peter Sutcliffe was the Yorkshire ripper), and there were few suspects (the Jews were blamed for a changed) and even fewer arrests.

The last hundred years has seen countless theories thrown up regarding his identity, and my advice is to explore these before making your own mind up. This in my opinion is what history is all about.

Answer 2

Is there 15 facts about Jack the Ripper? I only know of about 3 or 4. It would seem that if there were 15, they would have caught him.

Answer 3

Jack the ripper was about in the East end of London in a place called white-chapel this person committed horrific,mindless,brutal and motiveless evil murder between August and November of1888
They have never caught the ripper nobody knows if it was male or female there are five suspects as far as i know
Robert Donston stephenson(DR:Roslyn D Onston)
Montague John Druitt
Aron Kosminski
Sir William Gull(royal physician)
and the most famous of all Prince Albert,Duke of Clarence
hope this helps

Answer 4

15 letters in "on jack the ripper". Don't know the other 14 facts, sorry.

Answer 5

Welcome to my specialist subject. Serial killers. Let's see.

(1) They never caught him obviously. The police had theories, but for one reason or another the ripper slayings just came to a close.
(2) He almost certainly wasn't called "Jack". The infamous letters to the newspapers baring this name were almost certainly a hoax, but the name stuck.
(3) No-one knows exactly how many victims there were - at least four - possibly six, but could be as many as eight.
(4) He almost certainly had some kind of rudimentary surgical knowledge or training.
(5) All that guff about Freemasonry and Royal Physician Sir William Gull being the ripper and taking in such Victorian illuminaries as Prince Eddy Duke of Clarence and Queen Victoria herself is complete garbage, just standard stuff wheeled out by Hollywood as making for a great story - it has no basis in reality, so ignore Johhny Depp in "From Hell" for starters.
(6) Most of the killings all took place in the early hours of the weekend or a public holiday (the morning of the Lord Mayors show), so one could infer that the ripper was quite possibly in a relationship and in full-time employment.
(7) There's no reason to believe that he ever carried a gladstone bag or wore a deerstalker cap like depicted in the films. What witnesses there were were very inconsistant in describing who they saw.
(8) There's also no reason to believe he had his own driver and horse and carriage, which is how the murders are usually depicted on film. It's not impossible though.
(9) The only genuine letter from 'Jack' was a package sent to Mr Lusk, chairman of the Whitechapel vigelence committee - it contained half a human kidney, probably taken from one of the victims.
(10) On most occasions he attempted to remove the victims sexual organs (specifically the uterus) and suspicion at one point fell on an American quack doctor who kept such a collection of specimens in jars.
(11) The generally accepted final victim Mary Jane Kelly was the only victim to be killed in her own room and the only victim to have a proper address.
(12) Most of Scotland Yard's paperwork on the case has since been lost. What survives is a mere fraction of what there once was.
(13) The most famous policeman on the case Inspector Abbeline didn't leave any written notes or memoirs on the case for posterity, although he is known to have suspected George Chapman, who was hanged in 1903 for poisoning three women. Why he thought a knife killer should lie dormant for so many years and then switch to poisoning is unknown.

Can't think of any others off the top of my head!
Only two short!

Answer 6

Facts are not something in great supply around Jack the Ripper. You're probably best off sticking to easily provable ones if you need a list, such as:

1. his identity has never been established
2. he murdered women in London
3. he was operative in the 19th century

... etc. You can get more from the link below.

Answer 7

Good advice to research, and then make your mind up.
Let's see, Jack the Ripper lived a long time ago, so for research you could.. read books or try google.
But not wiki, apparently.

Answer 8

Jack the ripper killed prostitutes in London.

Thats one you only need fourteen more.

Answer 9

i suggest you read Patrica cornwells book portrait of a killer, its about her quest to solve the ripper murders and i think she has although there are arguments about the alleged perpetrator, some people don't like the truth read it and decide for yourself facts aplenty in there too!

Answer 10

serial killer of prostitutes from england....the case was never solved so it is hard to know too many concrete facts about the actual killer.

http://www.casebook.org/