Jack the ripper

“Jack the Ripper” is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone who claims to be the one that is responsible for the serial murder cases of the prostitutes. The truth behind the letter and the identification of the real killer can’t be confirmed up until now as the cases is never been solved.

     Attacks ascribed to the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes from the slums whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge.Rumors that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and letters from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer were received by media outlets and Scotland Yard. The "From Hell" letter, received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, included half of a preserved human kidney, supposedly from one of the victims. Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer known as "Jack the Ripper".

      Extensive newspaper coverage bestowed widespread on the Ripper cases. An investigation into a series of brutal killings in Whitechapel up to 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888, but the legend of Jack the Ripper solidified. As the murders were never solved, the legends surrounding them became a combination of genuine historical research, and folklore. There are now over one hundred theories about the Ripper's identity, and the murders have inspired multiple works of fiction nowadays.