Jack The Ripper As A Media Murderer

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Jack the Ripper is a popular name of an unknown killer who terrorized London between August and November, of 1888. Jack the Ripper is one of the most popular serial killers known today. There are almost as many books and scripts written about him than Adolph Hitler. The mystery of this Whitechapel murderer still lives on today.
Many people wonder why and how Jack the Ripper is still famous to this day for murdering people. Jack the Ripper only had five victims and his murder spree only last about 12 weeks, so he wasn’t the most prolific serial killer so why is he so famous? Well when the murders were happening there was world coverage going on about the murders done by Jack the Ripper, the media was feeding people everything he was doing so everyone knew. It was also said that the Whitechapel area was so called a “villainy” area. The Whitechapel area was seen as an evil place full of murders, disease and other things like that. Also, he became known as “Jack the Ripper” and sent letters to the media, horrifying letters and the media fed it to the people, which is the main factors why he became so famous, he was a media menace.
The mystery of Jack the Ripper opens up on August 31, 1888 with the discovery of a women’s lifeless body on Buck’s Row, in the heart of London’s Whitechapel slum. Jack the Ripper’s five victims were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Edowes, and Mary Jane Kelley. All of his victims were women and all five of them were prostitutes, and all of the victims except one, Elizabeth Stride, were horribly mutilated. All of the victims had been strangled and then had their throats cut, and all of them besides Stride were horribly mutilated. It was said by many “Ripperologists” that there wer...

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.... The name of Macnaghten's second suspect was confirmed as Aaron Kosminiski, his records show him to be a docile and harmless lunatic that heard voices in his head. The third Macnaghten suspect, Michael Ostrog, has been looked into and there is nothing more to show other than that he was nothing more than a con man.
In the past decade more evidence has been recovered, new information garnered through the young criminal sciences, and serious research conducted on the mystery of Jack the Ripper than at any other time since the case was officially closed in 1892. It’s still a huge mystery and there are still so many people that are determined to find out who did it. I’m sure if that if we had all the technology that we do now back then, we would have been able to catch The Ripper, but we didn’t. Sad to say, the mystery of these Whitechapel murders still live on today.

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