Tristan Poore
Ms. Tubbs
English 9
2 November 2015
Jack the Ripper
Jack the ripper one of the many well-known serial killers. He murdered eleven or more victims. Jack the Ripper usually involved female prostitutes who worked and lived in the nasty parts of the east end of London. They had their necks slashed before their organs were removed from their torso so the killer had to know how to do surgery or he wouldn’t of succeeded
The canonical five Ripper victims were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. The belief that these five crimes were committed by the same man is derived from contemporary documents that link them together to the exclusion of others. During 1894, Sir Melville Macnaghten, Assistant Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police Service and Head of the Criminal Investigation Department wrote a report that stated the white chapel murder had 5 victims and five victims only. …show more content…
The Whitechapel murders file does, however, detail another four murders that happened after the canonical five: those of Alice McKenzie, Rose Mylett, Frances Coles, and the Pinchin Street torso. At the very end of October, Robert Anderson asked police surgeon Thomas Bond to give his opinion on how much the murderer knew about surgical skill and knowledge. The opinion offered by Bond on the character of the "Whitechapel murderer" is the first surviving offender profile. Bond's assessment was based on his own examination of the worst mutilated victim and the post mortem notes from the four previous canonical