The Whitechapel Murders

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The snow floats down from the heavens on to earth painting it glistening white. Just like the named implies whitechapel is covered in a blanket of white snow. Catherine Eddowes walks home then she spots the local newspaper boy “Hey Missus, care for this morning's paper?” “Yes, boy, how many pounds will this be?” ”Just one pound, Missus.” “Thank you, boy,” she throws a coin to the young boy. The boy hides the coin in his hat and scurries off into the shadows of a dark alleyway. Catherine sits down on a bench nearby. One of the articles state that a woman’s body has been found on Bucks Row in Whitechapel. Her throat had been slit twice from left to right, her abdomen mutilated with one deep wound. A chill runs down Catherine's spine, she is not sure if it is from the cold or from the article she just read. She puts down the newspaper and rushes off to her quarters. She takes out a bottle of whiskey when she gets home to calm herself from the stressful day at work and the article she just read. She sits down at the counter taking out a glass to pour the whiskey in she drinks glass after glass. Her hands start to shake rapidly she taps the table repeatedly the melody of her fingernail hitting the wood echos throughout the house like a ticking clock. Tick, tick, tick the sound echos until it finally stops. The whiskey is starting to take effect on her. She feels dizzy. She decides to take her medication to stop the throbbing pain in her head. Catherine makes haste towards the restroom but, upon opening the medicine cabinet she finds that her pill bottle is lacking the pills. Clutching her head and moaning in pain she decides to go to the pharmacy. She walks through the crowd of people swaying side to side through the waves of pedestr... ... middle of paper ... ... former police officer and sweared he would track down the Whitechapel murderer. He never lost a case and would boast about his achievements on his old police squad. George was a sloth of a man never wanting to investigate anything. Charles was just as bad as George, he would just sit and stuff his face with cakes and any other assortment of sweets. Thomas hatched a plan. He wanted to make the squad more successful so he could find the Whitechapel murderer and kill him; reaping the fame and making a name for himself. He wrote a letter which he titled From Hell to George. Thomas attached the kidney he took from Catherine onto the letter to make it more convincing. Upon receiving the letter, George not wanting to properly investigate it so, he denounced it as a fake. Thomas knew matters should be taken into his own hands he needed to track down the killer himself...

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