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Jack The Ripper

WHY DID THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS ATTRACT SO MUCH ATTENTION IN 1888?
The Dates
1. Friday 31st August 1888-Mary Ann ‘Polly' Nicholls
2. Saturday 8th September 1888-Annie Chapman
3. Sunday 30th September 1888-Elizabeth Stride
4. Monday 1st October 1888-Catherine Eddowes
5. Friday 9th November 1888-Marie Jeannette Kelly
The Victims
All of the victims chosen by Jack the Ripper were female lower-class women who had prostituted.
This excited the interest of middle- or even higher-class Victorians as these people were seen as wicked, going on the streets not for need but for choice; about them view was that all they deserved for their sins was death, so their killing would have stirred and reinforced an average Victorian's sense of justice.
The Slaughtering
What all victims had in common was their violent death caused by a ‘necklace' from ear to ear. Then, especially in the last one, horrible mutilations were performed on the dead body, the brutality and rawness of which excited......


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