Investigation of Jack the Ripper
Jack the ripper was an unknown serial killer, he kept his true
identity a secret from the world. Many people today see Jack the
Ripper as a mystery which will never be solved. People have tried for
many years to find out the mystery of Jack the Ripper but can not and
will not succeed. The fact that no one knows the identity of him keeps
the mystery of the unknown killer alive. It will stay a mystery
forever, all we know is that he was the killer of five women and the
alleged murderer of eleven women. There were twenty seven suspects who
were accused of being Jack the Ripper, these men were, Prince Albert
Victor Christian Edward (known as "Eddy" to his friends) is one of the
most famous suspects in the Jack the Ripper case, over the years,
different versions of his personality, mental stability, and manner of
death have appeared. Prince Albert Victor was born in 1864, his father
was Prince Albert Edward and his mother was Queen Victoria. Prince
Albert Victor was a slow child and grew up to be a rather dull adult.
There were rumors that Eddy was mildly retarded and he was partially
deaf. When the ripper murders were happening it was said that Prince
Albert Victor was in another country. According to Dr Thomas Stowell
eddy was suffering from syphilis. Joseph Barnett who was born in 1858
and died in 1926, his father was a fish porter who died in 1864 and
his mother left the family after her husband passed away. After this
he was raised by his older brothers Denis and Daniel, in 1887 Joseph
met Mary Jane Kelly who was one of the ripper murders, her mutilated
body was found at 13 Millers Court, Dorset Street...
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...only targeted prostitutes or women who used to be prostitutes.
Personally I think that the real ripper was mentally ill and didn’t
get enough help, I also think that he/she had a bad childhood and was
brought up in a bad way. Looking back at the witnesses I think it is
strange that none of them saw the ripper’s true appearance, one of
them must have got a good look at him/her. This brings up a whole new
mystery, which again we can never find out if the witnesses really
were at the scene of the crime or if they were just lying. The mystery
of Jack the ripper will never end pupils from all different
generations will try hard to discover any other clues to the Ripper
mystery, and some will always be thinking about it for the rest of
their lives. It is a mystery, which will never be solved no matter how
hard anybody tries.
The first suspect is Edward “Bennie” Bedwell. Bedwell was a local dishwasher who was questioned at a local motel for three days (Sigona). What supported Bedwell as a suspect is that he actually confessed to the murder (Sigona). There were multiple problems with Bedwell’s confession, however. The first problem with his confession is, “Bedwell couldn’t read or write, so it would be nearly impossible for him to understand what he was confessing to” (Sigona). The second problem with his confession is “After a time, everyone realized Bedwell’s story didn’t add up. There were inconsistencies, including the fact that Bedwell said he was with the girls for a month before they died” (Sigona). Finally, the main problem with his confession is that the girls were dead within four hours of leaving home (Sigona). The other suspect in the case of the murder of Barbara and Patricia Grimes is Max Fleig. Max Fleig was a young man in his teens when the Grimes sisters were murdered (MacGowan). Max offered to take a lie detector test, which he failed (MacGowan). The reason Fleig was released even after failing the test is “The police began to focus on him as a prime suspect until they were told that it was illegal to polygraph someone underage. The police released him, many of the authorities thinking he was their man” (MacGowan). Another example that supports Fleig as a suspect is that he was imprisoned later in his life
... to 52 killings. He was brought into custody one final time when suspicious investigators checked his whereabouts on a day of a killing in the city of Ilovaisk. He had been there on business.
The people also deflected the blame to another person, here are a few examples. "Les Goodman's the one. His car started! Let's wreck it," another is "What about Steve's radio. He's the one that called them. Smash the radio. Get me a hammer. Get me something." The last one is... "It isn't the kid...it's Bob Weaver's house." There are a lot more than that, but they all have the same explanation, and that is, none of them wanted to get blamed because they saw the things that they said they were going to do to the person when they found whoever it
From 1888-1891 a portion of London England known as Whitechapel was terrorized by a rash of murders. In total eleven women were murdered, five of those are thought to be the victim of one of the most well-known serial killers whom was never identified, Jack the Ripper. Out of the murders committed in the two year period, the five had like backgrounds, they lived in boarding houses and were prostitutes, alcoholics, or both. The women were found with their bodies lying on their backs with the legs spread apart. The victims were also found to have been murdered in like fashion with their throats had been slit and their bodies mutilated. This gave Jack the Ripper a specific modus operandi narrowing down the field of likely victims from the original total. Those five murders also took place in a time span of ten months.
In August 1888, the Whitechapel neighborhood of London first became aware of a monster in its midst. Whitechapel is known to have been home to the most severely unfortunate of souls, the poorest of the poor, prostitutes, the mentally ill, and alcoholics. Prostitutes turned tricks to earn their doss money (money required for a night’s lodging), often, only to spend it on drink instead. Most Whitechapel residents were physically unwell, either from poor nutrition, lack of medical care, filthy living conditions, sexually transmitted diseases, or any number of other factors, that in such conditions, contributed to an unhealthy community. Jack the Ripper, as he is still known today, preyed on these ill fated misfortunates as they went about earning their living in the only manner they knew. His victims: Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols, Annie Chapman (Dark Annie), Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly occupied the lowest rung of Victorian society. The Ripper himself may well have been one of Whitechapel’s own; or, based on what little evidence the police managed to gather, he could just as easily be a Gentleman of high society. Speculation and theories abound as to the identity of this brutal butcher; but it seems that no one will ever be able to speak the name of the Ripper with any measure of certitude.
Almost everyone knows Jack The Ripper to be skilled with a knife, but what most people do not know about The Ripper was that he was just as skilled in the media. This idea of The Ripper being a public relations specialist is made evident in “Ripped Straight From the Headlines: Jack the Ripper 's Public Relations.” by Devon Armijo, Shannon Guess, and Jacquelyn Jizno when it was published through Public Relation Quarterly in 2009. Throughout this article the writers are often writing about the possibility that it could have just been luck the way things worked out for The Ripper or did he maneuvered his way through the media and play with the minds of the people and police.
in case of being found guilty, he would go from four years to life imprisonment.
Murder is murder, or taking the life of another person. Repeatedly taking the life of other people is killing in a serial way. Serial killers are those individuals who repeatedly murder other people. There have been thousands of nameless serial killers, but none more famous than Jack the Ripper. The 1888 maliciousness of Jack the Ripper became one of the very first investigated, and most widely studied, serial murder cases, that established the protocols that are still used today to investigate these heinous crimes. The name Jack the Ripper has instilled fear in the public since 1888, and is a name that is synonymous with serial killing. Jack the Ripper set the bar by which all other serial killers are judged, studied, and
Jack the Ripper is one of the most well-known serial killers of the ages. Although everyone knows the name, “Jack the Ripper,” nobody really knows of his true identity. When the murder victims were found the press and the detectives could never put a name with the crime.
so that this informs us that the killer may not have had a motive, but
ways, such as not having DNA evidence, not enough information about the crime, and lastly
The birth of classic detective fiction was originated just in the mid nineteenth century, and was producing its own genre. Classical detective fiction follows a set of rules called the ‘Ten commandments of detective fiction’. The genre is so popular it can bee seen by the number of sales in any good book stores. Many of these books have been created a long time ago and there is still a demand for these types of books. The popularity is still ongoing because it provides constant entertainment, and also the reader can also have a role of detective trying to solve the crime/case committed. Classical detective fiction has a formula, the detective story starts with a seemingly irresolvable mystery, typically a murder, features the astute, often unconventional detective, a wrongly accused suspect to whom the circumstantial evidence points, and concludes with a startling or unexpected solution to the mystery, during which the detective explains how he or she solved the mystery. Formula that includes certain elements such as, a closed location to keep the number of suspects down, red hearings spread around the stories to keep the reader entertained yet interacted.
...lice or lawyers used their integrity. The police skirted around the law and use evidence that the witnesses said was not correct. They had a description of the suspect that did not match Bloodsworth but, they went after him as well. They also used eyewitness testimony that could have been contaminated.
"I am Jack the Ripper, catch me if you can" (Cornwell, 55) has been one of the most haunted lines of history, especially in London's Whitechapel area from August 1888 to November of that same year. Jack the Ripper was the mystery everyone wanted to solve, but not everyone was as determined as Patricia Cornwell. Throughout her series of all her Ripper investigations, she was destined to prove once and for all that Jack the Ripper wasn't just any man, but Walter Richard Sickert himself. In her book Portrait of a Killer Jack the Ripper Case Closed, she discusses and confirms that everyone had known the Ripper all along, just fell for his act. The author wasn't going down without a chance to prove to the world that Walter was the evil serial killer
rights being read to him. But, he was still proven guilty, and sentenced to 2030 years in