Jack The Ripper AKA Unidentified Serial Killer

Jack the Ripper AKA unidentified serial killer in poor districts in Whitechapel, London, in 1888.The name rises in a letter by someone claiming to be the murderer that was spread through the media. Nevertheless, the letter is widely considered to be a lie, and may have been written deliberately by a journalist to gain more interest in the story. Other named the killer “The Whitechapel Murderer” and “Leather Apron”.

Basically, the murdered involved women prostitute that throats were cut out and the internal organs were removed at least three of the victims that can be predicted that the killer has a surgical knowledge. Rumours about the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and media and Scotland Yard received a very big disturbing letters from an anonymous writer that claim to be the murderer. One letter received by George Luck of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee with half of a preserved human kidney possibly from one of the victims. Because of the extremely cruel and media treatment of the events, the public came gradually to believe in a single serial killer. An investigation to search for the real killer up to 1891 in Whitechapel but still fail to connect all the cases of murders in 1888 and the legendary Jack the Ripper was solidified.

The murders were never solved and became a combination of genuine historical study until a term called “ripperlogy” was created for only to study the Ripper cases. Over 100 theories were analyze about the ripper identity and the murders has inspired numerous work of fiction.