Jack the Ripper
Venus Chueh, Chen Shen, Wilson Xu
WTH IS THIS GUY?!
 The Jack the Ripper murders occurred in the East
End of London in 1888 and the murders had a huge
impact on society as a whole. 'Whitechapel murders
 It was written at the end of a letter, dated 25
September, 1888, and received by the Central News
Agency on 27 September, 1888.
WHY IS JACK THE
RIPPER SO FAMOUS?
 Mystery-which no one knows who he or she is.
 Killing five prostitutes by dismembering the
bodies!!!!!! Or maybe eat them!!!!! Or collect
them!!!!! OMG!!! GROSS!!!
 The killings has “significant medical knowledge”-
butcher or expert in medicine
 He is known to be a man of intelligence and highly
educated.
August 31st and
November 9th 1888
Canonical five – The Whitechapel Murder.
Mary Ann Nichols
• August 31st 1888
(aged 43)
• Drinking
• Throat, abdomen were
serious injured.
Annie Chapman
• 8th September 1888
(aged 47)
• Her three children’s
misfortune and death of
her husband had made
her really depressed.
Elizabeth Stride
• 30th September 1888
(aged 45)
• She was getting crazy
after separating with
her husband.
Catherine Eddowes
• 30th September 1888
• Was detained the day
before she died.
• Naked, the abdomen
was exposed. No
blood on the skin,
even on the clothes.
• Letter “From Hell”.
“From Hell”
On October, 1, Central News Agent received a postcard
signed “Jack the Ripper” and clamed for the
responsibility for Catherine's and Elizabeth's murder.
Mary Kelly
• 9th November 1888
• Her body was
found when
someone was
coming to collect
her rent.
• Her abdomen
cavity was empty.
Mr. Mystery
Jack the Ripper
 The name 'Jack the
Ripper' has become the
most infamous in the
annals of murder.
 It existed during 1888,
from August 7th to
November 9th. But no
one could arrest the
killers.
Is it one person?
Maybe… Mostly, suspects were Jews.
Cruel… Abrupt…. And violent
Miserable prostitutes were killed by Jack the ripper
mysteriously.
Take the whole world
seriously
 After consecutively
killed five prostitutes,
the media paid serious
attention to report the
horrible crime.
 Nobody knows who
the guy is and how he
looks like.
Victims
 Martha Tabram
 Mary Nichols
 Annie Chapman
 Elizabeth Stride
 Catherine Eddowes
 Mary Kelly
Investigation
 Police could not find any evidence to determine the
killer.
 According to the place where victims died, it was close
to a hospital. Police thought that the killer was a
doctor.
Social panic
 The killers sent scary letters to police.
(Claimed they would kill as much as they could before
arrested.)
Except Mary Jane Kelly could be heard while murdering,
others were killed quietly.
Impact nowadays
 It depicted the worst man in London, England.
 People described him wearing a black jacket with a
scalpel that use for murder prostitutes.
 Media starts drawing a illusion
 Video games. Movies. Toys. Etc.
Media and cultural
influence
While not the first serial killer, Jack the Ripper's case was the first to create a
worldwide media frenzy. Tax reforms in the 1850s had enabled the publication
of inexpensive newspapers with wider circulation. These mushroomed later in
the Victorian era to include mass-circulation newspapers as cheap as a
halfpenny,
Sources
 http://www.met.police.uk/history/ripper.htm
 http://www.biography.com/people/jack-the-ripper-
9351486
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/88
66083/Jack-the-Ripper-Is-this-six-inch-knife-used-byVictorian-serial-killer.html
 http://www.jack-the-ripper.org/
 http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=3628
 http://www.jack-the-ripper.org/