Who is Jack the Ripper? The question has been asked for hundreds of years all around the world. The first Jack the Ripper murder happened on April 3rd 1888. Jack the Ripper would prey on local prostitutes in the London, within the district of Whitechapel.
Whitechapel was known as the “bad” part of London because it housed prostitutes, criminals, and other unwanted scum from around the city. Just an example of how bad and criminally active the district of Whitechapel was like, some people would compare it to modern day Compton or South Central Los Angeles. Just like Compton most everyone living in the Whitechapel district were of a low social class and hated outsiders. Knowing the social status and the way the members of that district acted, historians firmly believe that Jack the Ripper might have actually been a member of Whitechapel or he would have know someone that was liked enough so that he could leave in and out with out being harmed.
I bet you are probably wondering who Jack the Ripper really is, so let me get so let me get down to it. Jack the Ripper was an infamous serial killer lurking in London during the 1800’s. Jack the Ripper attainted his name ”Jack the Ripper” for a few reasons. The first reason being his gruesome kill tactic. His kill tactic was actually quite simple, he would first slit the throat of his victim and watched them die, and then he would stab his knife into the woman’s genitals and then “rip” through the abdomen until he reached the throat. After the ripping was complete he would then remove the organ of his choice, which would range from an ear to a kidney. The most famous case was when Jack the Ripper removed the left kidney from Elizabeth Stride and sent it to the police. The second reason i...
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...out her spare bed room to a man of name Carl Feigenbaum who was a German seaman living in New York. On August 31th Carl decided to kill Mrs. Hoffmann, as he was slitting her throat her son woke and saw Carl killing his mother he cried for help until the police arrived but it was to late, Carl had escaped. Not for long though, a few hours after the murder the New York Police Department has captured Carl Feigenbaum and arrested him. On April 27th , 1896 Carl Feigenbaum was escorted to the electric chair where was executed for the murder of Mrs. Hoffmann. After the death of Carl Feigenbaum his lawyer told the police that he was sure that Carl was Jack the Ripper. Was Carl Feigenbaum actually Jack the Ripper? Did Jack the Ripper finally meet justice? Still to this day no one knows, looks like the cold case of Jack the Ripper will remain cold for a long, if not forever.
Investigating Why the Police Were Unable to Catch Jack the Ripper I believe the most important reason why Jack the Ripper was so hard to catch was because of the lack of evidence. In those days they did not have as advanced technology as we have today for instance, we have forensics where we can tell from a strand of hair who that hair belongs to. In those days they were only just learning the significance of footprints to catching a villain. Another part to this is that Jack the Ripper was so random towards who he killed the police could not find a link between the murders except that they were all prostitutes, which did not really help, although prostitute murders were not terribly uncommon. The press coverage to the case didn’t help much as they had forced the police to investigate ‘Leather Apron’ and this wasted a significant amount of the police time which, if spent properly, may have allowed them to uncover more information needed to catch the Ripper.
How the Police Tried to Catch Jack the Ripper In the 1880s, the police were very different from the police of today. Their main propose was crime prevention and their methods their methods were very primitive Source F is a police leaflet, which was published after the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Kate Eddowes; it was written to aid the police in their investigation it was also written in a factual tone, it suggests that the police were appealing for any information regarding suspicious characters. Because of the timing of this leaflet shows the desperation faced by the police but for because of the many defects reasons the leaflet was not successful: The first being that they did not offer any description of the murderer at all, 'person to whom suspicion was attached'. The second being that they still assumed that the person was living in Whitechapel, when there was a large amount of evidence suggested that the murderer wasn't from Whitechapel (the fact that the murders were all done on the weekends or on Friday nights, which suggests that he had a job and came into Whitechapel to murder).
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I think that it was not coincidental that Kubrick named this individual Jack Ripper, but purposely did so. The real Jack Ripper was a serial killer. Not only does the name fit with the character in Dr. Strangelove, but also the images and actions often associated with the serial killer. Silent and cruel attacks, nighttime, darkness and dense fog are a few images associated with the serial killer. In the movie General Ripper was in a dark office, he ordered Wing Attack Plan R to bombard the Soviet Union with a nuclear bomb before they could respond, and right before killing himself he was in a cloudy/smoky room. The Wing Attack Plan R is my analysis of the silent and cruel killings. The cloudy/smoky room is the dense fog. And finally the darkness of General Ripper’s office fits with the darkness image. What was the purpose of General Ripper when looking at the movie as a whole?
"I am down on whores and shant quit ripping them until I do get buckled,” (Pulditor 48). That statement was sent from Jack the Ripper himself to Scotland Yard, a detective in the case. Jack the Ripper was a horrendous serial killer that preyed on prostitutes in the late 1880s (Pulditor 45-47). Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Kate Eddowes, and Mary Kelly are five of the prostitutes’ murdered by Jack the Ripper (Anderson 10-51). Although the true identity of Jack the Ripper has never been identified, experts have investigated Prince Albert Victor, Thomas Neill Cream, and Montague John Druitt as prime suspects.
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Jack the Ripper killed five women between the 31st of August 1888 and the 9th of November 1888. They were murdered in Whitechapel and Spitalfields in the East End areas of London, England. The killer was never caught and because of this there are hundreds on his personality and motives. No other killer in the British history rivaled that of the gruesome, mocking, utterly superior Jack the Ripper, a multiple murderer whose arrogance and boldness deified the entire police department of London and held in terror a great city for as long as he cared to roam its streets and slay at will.
Jack then successfully convinces many big'uns and little'uns to come along with him and join a tribe of savages. These savages have face-paint on, which makes them anonymous. This anonimity allows for each tribe member to do things he would not have normally done because of the fear of being judged by society. They basically had no shame left. So they went out, killed a pig, acted as if they were raping it, and cut off its head.
As the killer was never truly found, the investigation turned into a historical research. It was so prominent that the research of Jack the Ripper became known as Ripperology. So whether the world will ever know the true identity of the killer of all killers, it will always be in study.
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