Jack the Ripper: Murder Scenes: Real Dialogue and Photos

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It is here, on an unseasonably chilly evening near Spitalfields Market within the Whitechapel district, that a disparate bunch of tourists and I find Johnny, a lifelong Ripperologist and, as we will shortly discover, our impressively enthusiastic guide for “The Jack the Ripper Tour, brought to you by Ripper-Vision ™. I think the perpetrator of this act had sufficient time, or he would not have nicked the lower eyelids. Again, the film features contemporary footage of the site as it is today, and atmospheric black and white photographs to show it as it was at various times in the past. Even though there were eleven identified murders during this time, only five linked back to Jack the Ripper.

Two cuts to her throat had sliced into her spine, she had been strangled, and her body had been flayed with her knees bent and legs spread.

Kelly’s corpse was nude except for a chemise and lying in the middle of the bed that sat flush against the apartment wall. Recognized as one of the most famous serial killers in the world, Jack the Ripper is known for his vicious and gruesome killings that took the lives of several women in London's East End. Annie was gravely ill, suffering from tuberculosis and nearly starved, and likely would not have lived much longer even if she hadn’t succumbed to the Ripper.

She moved to Brick Lane and was living in Whitechapel where she had three jobs: charwoman, seamstress, and translator. A serviceman was suspected, but as sex workers were third-class citizens, and crime was so prevalent, there wasn’t much investigation.Once again, technology was limited at this time, meaning that handwriting analysis equipment was non-existent.