The Mystery of Jack the Ripper

The Mystery of Jack the Ripper

The Police arrested many suspects.....but who was really guilty?

The terror that befell London's Whitechapel district in the Autumn

months of

1888 remains unparalleled in the annals of crime. Jack the Ripper, a

faceless

predator whose infamy and guile would be renowned and feared to this

day, has

become virtual folklore to the people of the East End. More than a

century has

passed since Jack the Ripper stalked the fog filled, cobbled streets

of London,

but still latter day detectives continue to speculate as to the

identity of the

notorious "Whitechapel Murderer". Only a few clues were ever unearthed

by the

bewildered Police Force of the 1880's, further whetting the appetites

of present

day theorists in their quest for the "Mysterious Monster". At the time

of the

murders, detectives had never before experienced the apparently

motiveless

brutality of the world's first serial killer. The increasingly

frustrated Police

Force, pressured by an angry public and QUEEN VICTORIA herself, were

to arrest

several suspects on flimsy evidence, only to have these lowly

scapegoats

committed to,lunatic asylums, in a pathetic attempt to rid the streets

of the

dark assailant. No-one was above suspicion...SIR CHARLES WARREN, Chief

of

Metropolitan Police, was to be suspected of his involvement in a

"cover up" and

even Queen Victoria's own grandson PRINCE EDWARD, was at one stage

considered to

be a "Ripper Suspect". Although time has allowed hindsight, and

numerous

suspects have been presented, many are too ridiculous to be consider...

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...ect was that he feared he was going insane

like his

mother before him, In a suicide note Druitt wrote "Since Friday I felt

I was

going to be like Mother and the best thing for me was to die". The

note was

discovered on his person on 31st December 1888. He had drowned in the

River

Thames, his pockets full of stones. Druitt was seen alive on 3rd

December, 1888,

almost one month after the last Murder and 2 days after his dismissal

from his

teaching job in Blackheath. Druitt's death remains a mystery, as does

his

alleged connection with the Ripper Case. It is true , however, that

the Police

closed the Ripper file following Druitt's suicide. The dreadful

killings

perpetrated by "Jack The Ripper" were never repeated beyond Druitt's

death. Was

this coincidence or conjecture?