WHO WAS THE SCARY SERIAL KILLER KNOWN AS JACK THE RIPPER?
Despite numerous books, films, and theories published,
the identity of Jack the Ripper remains amysterious and yet no one could
explain who is Jack from the evidence.
This is the best-known given name to the serial killer that
originated in London.
His attacks involved female prostitutes from the slums. He
cut their throats after retrieving their organs from the abdominal area.
Because of this, it was believed
he had surgical knowledge.
The killings took place from 1881 to 1888, and the identity
of this assassin is still a mystery.
Jack the Ripper became a legend that inspired many authors to
write novels, books and films.
Jack the Ripper! Few names in history are as instantly
recognizable. Fewer still evoke such vivid images: noisome courts and alleys,
hansom cabs and gaslights, swirling fog, prostitutes decked out in the
tawdriest of finery, the shrill cry of newsboys - and silent, cruel death
personified in the cape-shrouded figure of a faceless prowler of the night,
armed with a long knife and carrying a black Gladstone bag.
—Philip Sugden, The Complete History of Jack
the Ripper
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