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Can a blood soaked shawl identify Jack the Ripper?

Ana Coughlin
4 min readSep 29, 2020

Jack the ripper is perhaps the most famous serial killin history. But his identy has alwasy eluded ud. In Whitechapel, East London, in 1888, Jack the Ripper killed five women, but Scotland Yard suspected 11. He mutilated the women removing the uterus, kidney, and other organs. some of the victim’s faces were unrecognizable, and their bodies left guttered on the streets of Whitechapel. At the time the belief was he was a Doctor. but anyone with anatomical knowledge could have made the killings. The killer could not hide his rage against women.

THE VICTIMS (known as the Canonical Five)

-Annie Chapman

body savagely mutilated the womb taken

-Mary Ann Nichols,

body mutilated and womb removed.

-Elizabeth Stride

Body mutilated, possibly the killer had been interrupted.

-Catherine Eddowe

Her face brutalized the uterus and left kidney taken

-Mary Kelly

skinned to the bones

probably his last victim

the women wee poor and worked as prostitutes trying to survive in London’s most impoverished and crime-ridden places. the murderers were committed a mile of each other in or near Whitechapel from August 7 to September 10,1889

THE UNLIKELY SUSPECTS

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Ana Coughlin
Ana Coughlin

Written by Ana Coughlin

Loves the Beach. Loves to Read. Writing is not a hobby, but a passion.

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