Jack the Ripper was a serial killer active in London in 1888 who murdered and mutilated several women. He gained notoriety for slashing throats, mutilating bodies, and removing organs from victims between August and November 1888. Police investigated multiple suspects but were unable to make an arrest due to limitations of forensic technology at the time. Suspects included Montague John Druitt, George Chapman, Sir John Williams, and James Maybrick.
1. C R E AT E D B Y: H A L A H K H A L I D
JACK THE RIPPER
2. WHO WAS HE?
WHEN WAS HIS EXISTENCE
NOTICED??
He became know in the late 19thcentury for his handy
work of killing women and mutating their bodies. This
went on from between August till November 1888
3. SO, WHAT DID HE DO?
Slashed throats and bodies of women
Mutilated the bodies
Skillfully removed their internal organs, kidney uterus or any
other part of the abdominal area
4. OTHER NAMES OF JACK THERIPPER?
The Whitechapel murderer
Leather apron
5. LETTER FROM HELL
From hell.
Mr Lusk,
I send you half the Kidney I
took from one women
preserved it for you other
piece I fried and ate it was very
nice. I may send you the bloody
knif[e] that took it out if you
only wait a whil[e] longer
signed
Catch me when you can
Mishter Lusk
6. WHO WERE THE POLICE MORE
FOCUSED ON?
Surgeons Butchers
8. SUSPECTS
Montague John Druitt.
Well educated; he was incorrectly listed as a Dr. (barister)
Unsound mind
Found dead in the river Thames, about a month after the last ripper
murder
George Chapman
Polish immigrant
Poisoned and killed 3 of his wives and later hanged for it
He used poison and not butchered
9. Sir John Williams
Suspected in 2005 by his descendant
He was a Dr.
They would have fallen prey to Williams’s blade as he searched for
experimental subjects in order to cure his wife’s infertility.
the size of the doctor’s surgical knife; its width matched that of the
victims’ stab wounds.
James Maybrick
Suspected after 100 years of his death
His diary was found where he talked about killing women because
his wife has been unfaithful to him
There were many other suspects, with reasons such as having a
Matching DNA with the victim’s shawls, dairy of the famous wrtier
Alice in wonderland also seemed be of a phediophile
10. REASONS WHY THE COPS COULDN’T
CATCH HIM?
Weren’t very skilled
Out of modern technology
No finger print testing
no DNA testing
No CCTV
Public hate the cops so they didn’t help them
They relied on catching cops in act, or with proper testimonies