...Jack the Ripper was one of the most famous and renowned killers in history. Even though he was not the first serial killer, he was the first killer to strike on a metropolis setting. Jack the Ripper was in his prime at a time when the media had a strong control over society and society had as a whole was becoming much more literate. Jack started his killing campaign at a time of political controversy between the liberals and social reformers along with the Irish Home rule partisans. The reports of Jack the Ripper were collected and reported by the police, but then the different newspapers with their political influences slightly distorted the stories to give them their own effect. It has been more the one hundred years since the last murder and there is no longer any more original evidence, and the "facts" about the stories have changed over time due to different writers or differing sources. The press changed Jack the Ripper from being a depressed killer of prostitutes to one of the most romantic figures seen throughout history. One fact that most sources agreed upon was that the Ripper was a killer who wanted nothing more than to strike fear into the entire city by horribly mutilating his victims and then leaving them in locations where they were sure to be seen. Jack was the type of killer that wants fame and loved the fact that his "name" was on everyone's lips and was able to strike fear into anyone and everyone's heart. In the late 1800's "Jack the Ripper"...
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...The Whitechapel Murderer In 1888, there was a string of murders in the Whitechapel District of London during the Victorian era. People believed that these murders were committed by one man, whose name strikes fear in people's hearts even to this day. The Whitechapel murderer was one name given to this monster, but everyone came to know him as Jack the Ripper (“Jack the Ripper - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia”). Whose killings are filled with startling truths, numerous theories, and a multitude of unanswered questions. 1. Facts From the 31 August to 9 November 1888, five female prostitutes were murdered in a very poor area of London, known as the East End of the Whitechapel District. These five people were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Who are now known as the canonical five because they were believed to have all been slaughtered by Jack the Ripper, especially because these murders were never solved (“Jack...
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...The case of Jack the Ripper has both horrified and fascinated the people of England and the world for years. “Jack the Ripper” is the name given to an unknown killer who murdered several women in London’s East End in 1888 (Casebook: Jack the Ripper). Due to the long suspect list and conflicting information, a culprit was never named by the London police and has still not been definitively found. 1. Facts The five victims who are typically attributed to the Ripper—Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catharine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelley—were murdered in 1888 in London’s East End. The Ripper strangled his victims to unconsciousness and then cut their throats to kill them (Casebook: Jack the Ripper). All 5 had mutilations performed on their abdomens postmortem. Several victims had organs...
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...as the East End, was the scene of at least five gruesome murders in 1988 that were committed by a killer now famously known as Jack the Ripper. These murders took place in the height of transition from feudalism to capitalism and fueled by this, the East End was plagued with gross overcrowding, unemployment, and was a place of severe poverty and prostitution. Marxist theories of alienation and dialectical materialism help to explain how the rise of capitalism formed the case setting and supported The Ripper’s murders of five women. In the mid-nineteenth century, an influx of Irish and Jewish immigrants hit England and swelled the population, including that of East London (Kershen 2008). Whitechapel suffered gross overcrowding and an urban proletariat started to emerge (Rumbelow 2001). Housing and working conditions became worse and poverty led many people to alcohol, crime and violence and women were driven into prostitution as work was hard to find (Vaughan 2008). Many people were dependent on lodging houses for a place to sleep, and would only be admitted if they had four pence as payment. Those who did not have the money were left outside on the streets (Rumbelow 2001). The first of the official Jack the Ripper murders occurred in the early hours of 31st August 1988 (Rumbelow 2001). A woman later identified as forty-two year old Polly Nichols was found with her throat cut from ear to ear and when taken to the morgue and undressed by morgue assistants it was found that the...
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...mysertious man known as "Jack the Ripper." Between August and November 1888, the Whitechapel area of London was the scene of five brutal murders. All of the murders were taken place less than a mile apart from each other. On August 31, 1888, Jack the Ripper killed his first victim. Mary Nichols' dead body was found in Buck's Row Whitechapel at around 3am. Her throat was cut and her body was disemboweled. Her murder was just the start of Jack the Ripper's "regin of terror." On September 8, 1888, the body of another prostitute was discovered in the backyard on 29 Hanbury Street. It was less than a mile away from Buck's Row, where the previous murder of Mary Nichols had taken place just a week before. This victim was Annie Chapman. Jack the Ripper removed her womb. When she was found, there was a leather apron tied around her body. That was a clue to who the murderer might have been. The area was flooded with police officers, and since there hadn't been any murders for a few weeks, they thought that they had scared him off. Shortly after Annie Chapman's murder, Sergeant William Thicke arrested John Pizer. John was known in the area as "Leather Apron." However, John Pizer was able to provide proof that he was not apart of the murder of Annie Chapman or Mary Nichols. Then he was released and taken off of the list of suspects. Dr. George Bagster Philips investigated Annie Chapman's death. He noticed that the skill and speed the killer took out her womb was impressive, therefore...
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...Ritchie English III Mr. Howard March 18th 2012 Who was Jack the Ripper, Really? Jack the Ripper terrorized London in the last part of the 19th century. He was responsible for at least five brutal murders, and some experts attribute more killings to his total. While these murders were never actually solved, there is much evidence to suggest that the true identity of Jack the Ripper. The real serial killer was actually Walter Richard Sickert. Walter Richard Sickert was one of England’s greatest impressionist painters. “He was born and raised in Munich. His father was a great writer, and his mother was a very bad alcoholic. Walter at a young age underwent a series of penis surgeries which may have left him impotent. He suffered from fistula this is a hole in your penis”(Cornwell chapters 5 through 6). So this ment that sickert was unable to have intercourse.Sickerts artwork was one of the greatest clues to his crimes. His paintings are menacing and threatening towards women of a lower class. In other words, prostitutes. A few of Sickerts paintings resemble some of the Rippers crime scenes. The ripper may have been a man who had a hate for women, because of his own sexual inabilities or problems. Sickert was a master of disguise and could of easily of lured a prostitute to her death and then escaped without being noticed. He had an unhealthy fascination with the human body that went far and beyond a normal person would. The ripper liked to write letters and disclose certain items...
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...suggests that it was unique and that the method of murder was very different. The phrases ‘extraordinary violence’ and ‘excess of effort’ infers that Jack the Ripper was vicious, brutal and went over the top. The victims were the ‘poorest of poor’ so the murderer was not trying to rob the victims. Since there was ‘no adequate motive in the shape of plunder’ it suggests that Jack the Ripper committed these crimes because he or she enjoyed killing. However the source describes the work of Jack the Ripper as the ‘work of a demented being’ which suggests that Jack the Ripper was mad. 2. Study Sources A, B and C Does the evidence of Source C support the evidence of Sources A and B about the Ripper murders? Explain your answer. (8) Sources A and C comment on how the victims were poor so money was not the murderer’s motive. Also the details of how the victim was murdered in source C supports the fact, in source A, that the murder was peculiar and had extra-ordinary violence. However source C is more detailed on the method of murder whereas source A is general describing the murder but not the method. Source C supports source A to a very little extent. Sources B and C agree on the fact that the murder was committed with the use of a knife – ‘In the neck there was a long incision’ ‘cutting the windpipe completely in two’ and ‘use the knife’. However source C concentrates on the method of murder but source B is focusing on who the murderer...
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...as us? Throughout history they were untouchable but now small tidbits of information shed scandalous flickers of light on half-truths or are they full truths? We’ll leave that for you to decide. Did the Royal Family murder Princess Di? Was Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, really Jack the Ripper? With an unscheduled jaunt through an ancient sacrificial Pagan site, Diana and Dodi were taken away from their predetermined haven of Al Fayed’s apartment. Moments before entering the tunnel, not only did every security camera mysteriously died, preventing anyone from ever really knowing what happened on that fateful night, but each and every single police radio quit, blocking any quick responders from saving the princess’s life. Eyewitnesses even reported hearing gunfire and snipers within the tunnel. In 1997, detectives grilled the ex-royal butler, Paul Burrell, for three hours. Seven years later, he came forward to tell about an MI5 link to a letter in which the Princess chillingly predicted her own demise by way of a car crash. Earlier that same year, a new eye witness came forward with a description of a white fiat seen forcing the limo off the road. Every day new facts come to light. Was she really in fear for her life? Was she really pregnant? Apparently, the Royal Family went into crisis mode when 20 or so videos of Di’s secret video confessions of her marriage troubles to the Prince...
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... Film Argument Essay “From Hell” “From Hell” is a movie based on the case of Jack The Ripper by the New 20th Century Fox Production. Jack the Ripper, a serial killer, haunted Whitechapel, a district of East London, during the late 1880s; The Ripper was said to be the first documented and investigated serial killer at the time. The movie “From Hell” relates how, when and where The Ripper killed his victims. The main point of this movie is illustrate exactly how Jack The Ripper was operating back in those days, to give us an image of what the district looked like, of how it was like to live there. Now the question is, does the movie accurately deliver the history of Jack the Ripper? The physical appearance of Whitechapel? The way people lived at that time? Attempting to answer these questions will be the main focus of our essay. Let’s start with the context and costuming: the murders of the Ripper occurred in the 1880s in London, making it a little hard to capture the essence the fact and a physical space looking East London. Fortunately, the story was documented, and adapted into a book in which directors and producers drew the plot of the movie from, and the movie was filmed in Prague because it was the place that looked the most like 1880’s East London. As of fashion, women in the 1880s were dressed in fashionable dresses with low waists and tiny below, supported...
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...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....
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...brutal murders. The identity of the killer of these poor victims has remained a mystery. This mysterious killer was given the name “Jack the Ripper”. Jack wasn’t the first serial killer in the world, but he had no doubt managed to captivate the entire London. All women murdered by Jack the Ripper were prositutes lived and worked in the slums in the East Eng of London. All victims except for one were brutally mutilated. At least three of the victims’ internal organs were even removed from their bodies. People proposed from this action that the Ripper might prossesed anatomical or surgical knowledge. Jack the Ripper was never caught and the whole London was terrorized. The crimes were widely reported in the newspapers and the notoriety of the Ripper endures. In the 1880s, Britain exprienced an influx of immigrants and some cities including the East End of London’s population swelled. The Whitechapel area in London’s East End was overcrowed with immigrants who did not have a job and housing. The area was full of people at or below the poverty line. Working and housing conditions were awful at that time. Many of the residents could not find a job and for those who were lucky to get a job, they were forced to work 15 hours a day. There was not much option for women without a spouse or family. They had to fight very hard in any means for themselves. For some, prostition was one of the ways they could continue their lives. Even some women with a family had to engage in casual prostitution...
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...the common folk who provided a service to the Lord for use of the land, whether it is to serve in the military or other forms as requested. This was the way of life in medieval times, up until the 15th century (Hirst, 2012). From here, the transition began from Feudalism to the early stage Capitalism, where the ordinary people broke away from the Feudal system and owned property and the means of production as well as the resources to make and maintain wealth (Dictionary.com, 2012). England in the 1800’s was hard in comparison to today. The life expectancy for a man aged 20 in 1850 was 60.1 years compared to 76.7 in 2004 (Geoff Canyon's Appeal to Authority, 2009). This was mainly due to the living conditions and especially those in the poor area of East London, where animals not only shared the often over crowed living area with humans but also the human waste that was thrown onto the streets. Often those who lived in the bottom apartments lived close to if not in the stench, more so than those who lived multiple stories above the streets. With the pollution of human waste in the streets and the polluted River Thames from the sewage of the West End, no matter where you lived in the East End, you still had to walk through the rising filth. These living conditions were the main reason for the various outbreaks of diseases, sores and premature deaths during the 1800’s (Engels, 2005). Engels (2005) further discussed that a lack of medical assistance was a major issue...
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...centuries. There are ones that have never been caught like Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac killer, but there are also ones that were caught, such as Andrei Chikatilo, Albert Fish and Ted Bundy. There are killers who killed people using a certain method that they made for themselves and people who had no such method. Some killers killed people because of mental issues or because they had a rough childhood, while others had seemingly nothing go wrong with their childhood. All of them had some reason to kill, whether it was because they enjoyed killing, or they...
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...A serial killer is someone who has killed at least three people due to psychological gratification and the killings usually have a break between them. The FBI considers a serial killer someone who kills in sets of about two or three. Although serial killers usually kill for psychological gratification that isn’t the only reason, some other popular motives are: the thrill of killing, intense anger, and sexual desires. The man that earned credit for coining the term “serial killer” was a FBI agent named Robert Resseler in 1971. There is a surprising amount of similarities between traits and the personality of serial killers and future serial killers. Referred to as the Macdonald Triad these three behaviors were noted in a vast majority of serial killers: in their youth many serial killers (about 90%) would often act out their fantasies on animals , wetting the bed at an unusually advanced age (57%), and showing an interest in pyromania as juveniles. Serial killers typically come from rather dysfunctional families, resulting in them isolating themselves and not having too many close friends, if any at all. On the other hand, some psychopaths come off as friendly and charming due to their ability to imitate the emotions and...
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...A serial killer is someone who has killed at least three people due to psychological gratification and the killings usually have a break between them. The FBI considers a serial killer someone who kills in sets of about two or three. Although serial killers usually kill for psychological gratification that isn’t the only reason, some other popular motives are the thrill of killing, intense anger, and sexual desires. The man that earned credit for coining the term “serial killer” was an FBI agent named Robert Resseler in 1971. There is a surprising amount of similarities between traits and the personality of serial killers and future serial killers. Referred to as the Macdonald Triad these three behaviors were noted in a vast majority of serial killers: in their youth many serial killers (about 90%) would often act out their fantasies on animals , wetting the bed at an unusually advanced age (57%), and showing an interest in pyromania as juveniles. Serial killers typically come from rather dysfunctional families, resulting in them isolating themselves and not having too many close friends if any at all. On the other hand, some psychopaths come off as friendly and charming due to their ability to imitate the emotions...
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