Why The Whitechapel Murders Attracted So Much Attention in 1888

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Why The Whitechapel Murders Attracted So Much Attention in 1888

There were many reasons why the Whitechapel murderers were very

popular perhaps one of them would be that It was an astonishing story

a serial killer who leaves no clues kills random and prostitutes in

Whitechapel area which was very poor and a lot of criminals lived

there but not of the calibre of Jack the ripper. The people wanted to

read about it and make sure they know all of the details like some

people say ''There is no better news than bad news''

Another reason could be the fact that Jack the ripper was killing his

victims very brutally by slashing their throat from ear to ear this

also caught the attention of the public. In the 19th century, like the

present day, people were interested in gruesome crimes, maybe even

more so in the more suppressed society of the Victorians. As a number

of 19th century journalists commented "violence especially violence

with a sexual frisson sold newspapers". When the newspapers published

the Ripper story they saw that their newspapers started selling in

amazing figures so they started publishing more of the story every

time.

Another thing that greatly scared people was the fact that letters

were sent to the central news agency all claiming to be from the

Ripper. All but three are now considered to be false but of the three

the letter titled "from hell" is mostly considered to be genuine.

Addressed to Mr Lusk a vigilante heading the "vigilance committee"

there was, with the letter half a kidney, believed to be that of Kate

Eddows who was another prostitute murdered brutally by Jack the

ripper.

Jack the ripper was the first famous serial killer up to 1888 no one

in Englandhad heard about serial killers. The story was very

frightening as well as interesting because jack the ripper had no

motive which scared the people even more.

So what managed to achieve such hype about a brutal and disgusting

story. Well Jack the ripper was a serial killer with no motive he also

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