Serial killers. The word sends a chill down the spine. Jack The Ripper. The name has become synonymous with serial killers. In the late 19th century London, there were a series of brutal murders of women. The police were clueless. The murders went on for a few months then they abruptly stopped.Till this day, the murderer has not been identified. Jack The Ripper remains till this day one of the unsolved mysteries of human existence.
Let us read about the murders, as reported in the newspapers of that time. It makes for fascinating reading.
The Daily Telegraph
LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1888
Another most horrible murder was perpetrated in Whitechapel yesterday morning. At an early hour, as a police-constable was on his beat in an obscure thoroughfare, he came upon the body of a woman, with her throat cut from ear to ear. On the arrival of a doctor she was removed to the mortuary, where an examination revealed the fact that there were many other shocking wounds upon her person. Though lifeless she was not quite cold, showing that the crime had not been long committed. Late in the day she was identified as a woman named Nicholls, who had led a loose and miserable life, and had at one time been an inmate of the Lambeth Workhouse. So far the police have no clue to the murderer.
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