The Gruesome Murders Of Jack The Ripper

The Gruesome Murders of Jack the Ripper Between August 31 and November 9, 1888, an unidentified man brutally murdered at least five different women. Jack the Ripper’s five victims confirmed, Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly were all killed between August 31 and November 9, 1888. All five of the women were prostitutes, which was one of the few similarities observed between them. Two widely believed theories surrounding the Jack the Ripper case are that he is a doctor or a butcher, and that he is actually a woman. Jack the Ripper’s first victim, Polly Nichols, was found on August 31, 1888, her body brutally mutilated. “The body of Polly Nichols, her throat cut and her abdomen

To begin, a witness stated she saw Mary Kelly outside, even though she’d been killed hours earlier. This may have been the killer getting away in her victim’s clothing (“Was Jack the Ripper a Woman? 1”). To continue, this ‘Jill’ the Ripper is thought by many, including author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the mind behind the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, to be an insane midwife-abortionist. He believed she may have been caught and turned in to the police by a prostitute and is now killing for revenge (Sharkey 113). It is thought she may have had an accomplice to slash her victims up as a way to hide her failed surgeries and to hide the evidence that they were abortions at all (Sharkey 113). Moreover, near the end of a voyage, a man and his fellow shipmates were drinking when two prostitutes joined them. The man and one of his friends left with them, and his wife was infuriated. Later, crimes with similarities to the Jack the Ripper killings began on the ship without explanation, and a sailor’s clothes were found bloodied up in their sink. When questioned, the wife confessed to the killings, apparently having killed wearing her husband’s clothes and making away from the scene wearing her own outfit (Sharkey 114). The Ripper being a woman is a generally unthought of concept, though the evidence adds up. The uteruses being missing from the victims makes sense towards her being an abortionist. All of this evidence points towards the Ripper being a woman, though the evidence just isn’t enough to make the theory