Jack the Ripper: Murder Scenes: Real Dialogue and Photos

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Phillips, who had responded to other Ripper murder scenes, asserted that the time of death was 5 or 6 am. Cox wished them goodnight, and Kelly drunkenly wished her goodnight and slurred that she was going to “have a song”. By the fall of 1888, the relationship between Mary Kelly and Joseph Barnett had become strained by their financial situation as well as the latter’s disapproval of Kelly’s lifestyle. The last of these five, Mary Jane Kelly, was slain in her room at 13 Miller's Court in the early hours of November 9, 1888.

The City of London, aka the Square Mile—as designated on street signs and addresses by the EC1 postal code—is among the world’s preeminent economic epicenters, where immense wealth flows in and out from around the globe. The use of this technology to try to solve a murder from the late 1800s does beg the question, though: were there scientific or forensic methods that police could use at the time to solve the Whitechapel murders?The biggest piece of evidence in the case was the series of letters that were sent to the Central News Agency in London during the active killing period from September to November 1888. For instance, a blood-smeared cloth was found in the doorway of 108-119 Wentworth Dwellings in Goulston Street, Whitechapel. The experience really depends on the guide because, in fact, we are just walking the streets where the murders took place. It must be said that Jack the Ripper, if the man who signed the letter written to the press with that moniker was indeed the murderer, presciently nicknamed himself.

A few weeks earlier, the dogs’ owner, a breeder named Edwin Brough, had reclaimed his hounds from the police when it became clear that Scotland Yard would neither be paying nor insuring him for their services. Above the bloody cloth were the words “The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing”, scrawled in white chalk.Mary Ann Polly Nichols was a 42-year-old sex worker who was staying at a lodging house in London's East End. A high proportion are young women (the British attitude to excessive drinking is far more laissez-faire than in other countries), and we watch a series of staggering girls reel mostly unaccompanied to find their way to buses and trains. Once again, technology was limited at this time, meaning that handwriting analysis equipment was non-existent. Tenement apartments lined the rest of the courtyard, and nothing else stood inside but a water pump and a dustbin. Victims suffered brutal injuries including cut throats, abdominal and genital mutilation, organ removal, breast removal, and other large cuts and mutilation.