Jack The Ripper

Jack The Ripper

If what I know is correct, Jack The Ripper was a notorious, unidentified murderer, who butchered his female victims. His crimes were carried out mainly in the Whitechapel District in the East end of London in 1888. At that time, he was also known as The Whitechapel Murderer and the Leather Apron. For every crime of his, the victims were women. Most of the women who were killed were prostitutes. The reason why I am so interested in him as a character is because, until today, his true identity remains unknown. Thus, he evaded capture and was not sentenced nor punished for his crimes.. I researched about him because he is a very mysterious and historical figure and my favourite hobby is, solving mysteries.

In 1888, Jack had the people of London, living in fear. It seemed like his main targets were women. Usually, after his victims were slaughtered by Jack, their throats were slit and all of their internal organs were removed. There were two infamous events that were related to Jack: Whitechapel Murders and Canonical Five. They were connected and the proof was that the Canonical Five occurred during the Whitechapel incidents. The Whitechapel Murders are believed to be the first of such killings, committed by Jack the Ripper. Eleven people were slaughtered from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891. Their corpses were so hideous and disgusting that there weren't any words to describe them. For example, a woman named Smith was robbed and sexually assaulted at Osborn Street. Later on, she was transported to the hospital while she was still alive. A mysterious blue object was found in her vagina and it resulted in her death. Tabram was killed on 7 August 1888. Her body was found with 39 cuts on it. The Canonical Five was about the first five murders by Jack the Ripper. The victims were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kerry. They were all cruelly slaughtered. All those horrible cases had something in common and it was the fact that all of these incidents took place late at night. Thus, the police concluded that Jack the Ripper only made his move during the night.

As most of Jack the Ripper's crimes involved the removal of internal organs, the detectives and police department highly expected that the culprit might be in the medical profession. Therefore, later on, they started to make a list of possible suspects. In addition, they also suspected nobles too, because rich people also knew about biology. After lots of thinking and arguments, the police concluded that there was a high possibility that Jack the Ripper might be one of these three men : Montague John Druitt, Aaron Kosminski and Michael Ostrog. Montague was a barrister turned teacher who committed suicide as the killings mysteriously stopped. Aaron kosminski was a polish Jew who lived in Whitechapel. He was suspected because 2 other Jews declared that they witnessed Aaron as Jack the Ripper. As Jews were thought to never betray each other, this story was doubted, but there was still a possibility. Michael was a Russian-born thief and con man. His background supported the probability of him being the culprit. Still, nobody was certain who was the true Jack the Ripper.

I had no idea who Jack the Ripper was until I saw some Japanese anime on television and learnt lots about it. The cartoon was about a kid detective. I tried to learn more about it by asking my buddies but they had no clue what I was talking about. Then, I realized that it was pretty unusual for a kid to know about a notorious criminal. After that moment, I started to get interested in him so I researched about Jack the Ripper. I was very happy when I learnt everything about him.

Jack the Ripper was indeed the most notorious criminal in London in 1888. Although I wasn't able to solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper, I shall keep on researching about him and maybe one day, I will uncover the truth about Jack the Ripper.