Jack the Ripper: Murder Scenes: Real Dialogue and Photos

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Many of the victims were sex workers, or prostitutes, who likely met their fateful end while soliciting work. Victims suffered brutal injuries including cut throats, abdominal and genital mutilation, organ removal, breast removal, and other large cuts and mutilation.

They considered using bloodhounds, and Sir Charles Warren did summon a pair of trained bloodhounds to be used at the crime scene. Though detectives were able to locate the majority of her body parts, one crucial part of Mary Jane Kelly was missing: the killer had left the scene with her heart. November 9th 1888 - The body of Mary Kelly is found in her room at 13 Miller's Court, Dorset Street. Help is available for anyone who needs assistance with mental health concerns at https://988lifeline.A passageway into Miller’s Court from Dorset Street led to Kelly’s little room, which had a door on one side and two windows around the corner from the door. When police crowded into Kelly's cramped room on November 9, 1888, they made a relatively unique decision: the scene, they felt, should be photographed for evidence, since a photograph was an objective, neutral witness and was irrefutable. In the days leading up to her death, Annie was involved in a catfight with another female lodger, Eliza Cooper, at a pub, and many suggested Ted Stanley was at the heart of the dispute. The last of these five, Mary Jane Kelly, was slain in her room at 13 Miller's Court in the early hours of November 9, 1888.

Her body was discovered less than a mile from her lodging house on Bucks Row, on August 31, 1888, around 3:40 AM. Our surroundings as we listen to the litany are unsettlingly appropriate: Around us are multiple pubs crowded with post-work drinkers, now several hours into their cups. Everyone posits a surgeon as a likely identity for Jack the Ripper, but he could easily have been a slaughterhouse worker, a butcher, a barber, a veterinarian—all also skilled with a knife. The common lodging house, the public houses and the crime scenes, and see how these locations have changed since the late 1880s and how they look today.

Jack the Ripper is responsible for at least five murders, known as the canonical five; The names of those victims are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Once all these notes were detailed, the surgeons gave their expert opinions in attempts to profile the sort of person who could have carried out the crime.

Mary Kelly, the last of the “Canonical Five” to be killed, lived in the Dorset Street neighborhood, which today, as Johnny explains, bears no resemblance to its 19th century description: “The 30 lodging houses, eight brothels, four pubs, and 2,000 of some of the worst people you could imagine—the sort of people that made Billy the Kid look like Winnie the Pooh—are gone. Jack the Ripper’s identity remains shrouded in mystery and will most likely remain so for the foreseeable future.In general, investigators were limited to circumstantial evidence such as a number of conflicting witness statements. In the absence of widespread photography, the police, media, and other officials received Jack the Ripper letters. The possibility of anti-Semitic reprisals meant the police erased graffiti found near Catherine Eddowes' apron, which may have been a clue to the identify of the killer.

Barnett and Kelly lived first on George Street, then Dorset Street, from which they were evicted for not paying rent and for being drunk. Maxwell’s testimony was mostly set aside, and it was assumed that Kelly must have been killed sometime in the early morning. Coroner Baxter allowed him to wait to present the remaining evidence a few days later, and even then several newspapers refused to print all the details. In Sweden, she had been on a registry of known prostitutes and had been treated for venereal disease many times.On the evening before her murder, Nichols spent time at a local pub and was last seen by her friends in the hour leading up to her death entertaining the company of a gentleman.