Jack The Ripper Thesis

“Jack the Ripper”, an alias given because someone sent and signed a letter in that name, is the infamous serial killer that harmed the streets of Whitechapel district in East End London during 1888. The Ripper murdered, from what is known, at least five prostitutes in an unusual medical manner that helped provide the police with a hint that the killer might have been educated in the human anatomy (Biography.com). The killer became and remained famous for numerous reasons, one of them being that the media romanticized him. Media transformed the Ripper from a “sad killer of women” into a “bogey man”, becoming “the most romantic figures in history” (Barbee). Jack the Ripper was never caught, letting him remain as one of the world’s most infamous

All of the testimonies have to be written down and signed by the person that it was said by. Interviews do not have to be done “sit down” style, they can also be done on the field. During the investigation of “Jack the Ripper”, many people in the Whitechapel district were curious in the murders and took it into their own hands to investigate. Everyone was investigating the crime for information, “newspaper reporters, private detectives, vigilance committee members and hunters of fortune and glory” (Cozart). There were rumors all over the place, some being of sadistic looking men and mobs of scared people were chasing anyone down who didn’t look fitting. At night, officers were stationed near each other in case of emergency and were ordered to stop and question anyone seen after midnight. There is a theory made that Jack the Ripper might’ve been interviewed at one point and was just a very good liar that the police didn’t suspect him. The problem with all these interviews is that none of the police officers wrote down any of the interviews done during fieldwork so there was no way of comparing them later

The doctors had to take it a step further and create a whole new trend and base conclusions on the murders according to the injuries on the victims. The coroners believed “the suspect was a male, left-handed, relatively large in physical size and strength and was well educated, with a background in medicine” (Cozart). While, this may have raised many questions, it changed the way police investigations were conducted during the medical analysis because instead of just coming to the conclusion that the victim was murdered, they now use the victim as a way to figure out characteristics of the murderer. During these times, and during this investigation, the Bertillon system was used. This system was based off the theory that a person’s body remained the same throughout their years of living. So when a suspect was arrested the police would measure their body so that they could use it as a reference for when they were coming to a conclusion. Suspect imaging also played a role during this investigation but it was not accurate. The police made an attempt to interview the public on trying to identify Jack the Ripper. Only two images were posted in the Illustrated Police News after certain evidence came to light. Most of the sketches made by artists were of what they believed the Ripper would look like which was a sinister and evil man. There were several people who have said to