Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Jack the Ripper Cover Up ?

The mystery of the real identity of  Jack the Ripper still eludes the public domain even after 123 years.  The macabre  type and almost ritualistic serial killings of  women who were mostly harlots sent shock waves across the U K. 

During the 1880 s UK was plagued by recessionary trends with rising unmeployment, hunger and deprivation for common man.  Added to this the woes of immigrants Jews from Russia and Irish folks created a deep poverity striken atmosphere. 

The History of murders by Jack the Ripper is described in Wiki in depth, here are the extracts :

'Canonical' five


Mary Ann Nichols (nicknamed "Polly") was killed on Friday 31 August 1888. Her body was discovered by market porter Charles Cross at about 3:40 a.m. on the ground in front of a gated stable entrance in Buck's Row (now Durward Street), a back street in Whitechapel 200 yards from the London Hospital. Her throat was severed deeply by two cuts; the lower part of the abdomen was partly ripped open by a deep, jagged wound. There also were several incisions running across the abdomen, and three or four similar cuts on the right side caused by the same knife used violently and downwards.[12]

Annie Chapman (maiden name Eliza Ann Smith, nicknamed "Dark Annie") was killed on Saturday 8 September 1888. Her body was discovered about 6 a.m., lying on the ground near a doorway in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. Like Mary Ann Nichols's, her throat was severed by two cuts. Her abdomen was slashed entirely open, and it was later discovered that the uterus had been removed.[13]

Elizabeth Stride (nicknamed "Long Liz") was killed on Sunday 30 September 1888. Her body was discovered about 1 a.m., lying on the ground in Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street (now Henriques Street) in Whitechapel. There was one clear-cut incision on the neck; the cause of death was massive blood loss from the nearly severed main artery on the left side. The cut through the tissues on the right side was more superficial, and tapered off below the right jaw. That there also were no mutilations to the abdomen has left some uncertainty about the identity of Elizabeth's murderer, along with the suggestion her killer was interrupted during the attack.

Catherine Eddowes (also known as "Kate Conway", "Kate Kelly" and "Mary Ann Kelly", from the surnames of her two "common-law husbands", Thomas Conway and John Kelly) was, like Elizabeth Stride, killed on Sunday 30 September 1888. Her body was found in Mitre Square, in the City of London, three-quarters of an hour after Stride's. The throat was, as in the former two cases, severed by two cuts; the abdomen was ripped open by a long, deep, jagged wound. The left kidney and the major part of the uterus had been removed. She was 46. Her and Stride's murders were later called "The Double Event" in the media, and across London.

Mary Jane Kelly (called herself "Marie Jeanette Kelly" after a trip to Paris; nicknamed "Ginger") was killed on Friday 9 November 1888. Her gruesomely mutilated body was discovered shortly after 10:45 a.m., lying on the bed in the single room where she lived at 13 Miller's Court, off Dorset Street, Spitalfields. Her throat had been severed down to the spine, and her abdomen virtually emptied of its organs. Her heart was missing.



















ACK :  Video courtsey youtube and article based on Wiki.

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