FACTS ABOUT JACK THE RIPPER
Added on: 6th Jan 2016
THE PLETHORA OF THEORIES AS TO THE KILLER’S
IDENTITY, RANGING FROM THE FAMOUS VICTORIAN
PAINTER WALTER SICKERT TO A POLISH IMMIGRANT
AND EVEN THE GRANDSON OF QUEEN VICTORIA,
HAVE ALL CONTRIBUTED TO A CULTURE OF FOLKLORE
AND GHOULISH ENTERTAINMENT.
THERE WERE A NUMBER OF SUSPECTS, BUT ONLY
THREE REMAINED UNDER SUSPICION. ARON KOSINSKI,
WAS A POLISH IMMIGRANT, MONTAGUE JOHN DRUITT,
A BARRISTER, AND MICHAEL OSTROG, A RUSSIAN DOCTOR,
WHO WERE ALL MANIACS AND HATED PROSTITUTES.
DURING THE TIME WHEN JACK THE RIPPER WAS GAINING
NOTORIETY, MANY PROSTITUTES HAD BEEN MURDERED
IN WHITECHAPEL. ELEVEN OF THESE WERE REGISTERED
BY THE LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE. OF
THESE ELEVEN, IT'S BELIEVED FIVE HAD THE SAME
PECULIARITIES, AND WERE MURDERED BY JACK THE
RIPPER. THESE FIVE WERE KNOWN AS THE CANONICAL
FIVE; THEIR BODIES WERE RIPPED APART AND THEIR
ORGANS NEATLY EXTRACTED.
THE NAME “JACK THE RIPPER” ORIGINATED IN A LETTER
PURPORTEDLY WRITTEN BY THE KILLER IN 1888. HOWEVER,
THE LETTER'S AUTHENTICITY HAS BEEN HIGHLY DEBATED.
ACCORDING TO ANOTHER THEORY, MAYBE JACK WASN’T
"JACK" AFTER ALL, BUT A WOMAN, WHICH WAS A
THEORY POSED BY FAMED INSPECTOR FREDERICK
ABBERLINE AT THE TIME OF THE KILLINGS. ACCORDING
TO DONALD MCCORMICK, AUTHOR OF THE IDENTITY
OF JACK THE RIPPER PUBLISHED IN 1959, ABBERLINE
RAISED THE THEORY IN A CONVERSATION WITH HIS
MENTOR, DR. THOMAS DUTTON AFTER THE MURDER
OF MARY KELLY. TESTIMONY GIVEN BY CAROLINE
MAXWELL, WHO LIVED IN THE AREA, WAS CENTRAL
TO THE ARGUMENT.
THE HARSH REALITY OF THAT ERA WAS THAT
COUNTLESS “LADIES OF THE NIGHT” WERE
SUBJECTED TO VIOLENT ATTACKS, WHICH IN SOME
CASES RESULTED IN THEIR DEATHS. ACCORDING TO
CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY WE LEARN THAT SERIAL
KILLERS TEND TO HAVE A VERY GOOD GRASP OF
OTHER PEOPLE’S EMOTIONS AND ARE QUICK TO PICK
UP ON ANY VULNERABILITY OR WEAKNESS IN ORDER
TO CONVINCE THEM INTO DOING THINGS THEY NORMALLY
WOULDN’T. THAT'S WHY IT IS BELIEVED THAT JACK THE
RIPPER WAS PROBABLY A KIND CHARMER WHILE
APPROACHING HIS VICTIMS.
THE EAST END WAS A DISTRICT VIEWED BY
RESPECTABLE LONDON SOCIETY WITH EITHER
COMPASSION OR CONTEMPT. DESPITE BEING AN AREA
WHERE SKILLED IMMIGRANTS, MAINLY JEWS AND
RUSSIANS, CAME TO START A NEW LIFE AND BUILD UP
BUSINESSES, THE DISTRICT WAS NOTORIOUS FOR
EXTREME POVERTY, VIOLENCE, AND CRIME.
ACCORDING TO MODERN-DAY CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS,
THIS WAS THE MAIN REASON JACK THE RIPPER PICKED
THE SPECIFIC AREA TO COMMIT HIS HORRENDOUS CRIMES.
THE GRUESOME MURDERS OF PROSTITUTES IN
WHITECHAPEL CAUSED AN UPROAR IN LONDON AND
PEOPLE DEMANDED THAT THE POLICE ACT EFFECTIVELY
TO SOLVE THE CASE, BUT NOTHING COULD EVER BE
PROVEN ABOUT JACK THE RIPPER’S IDENTITY.
ALTHOUGH PSYCHOLOGISTS CANNOT CLAIM ANYTHING
ABOUT A MAN THEY NEVER MET, THEY STILL ASSUME
HE HATED WOMEN AND THOUGHT THEM LOWLY AND
WORTHLESS. THE EXTENT OF THIS HATRED WAS BEYOND
LIMITS AND THIS IS THE REASON WHY HE DISTORTED
THEIR FACES IN AN EFFORT TO DESTROY THEIR
IDENTITIES. ACCORDING TO OTHER THEORIES HOWEVER,
HE WAS JUST A MANIAC WHO SUFFERED FROM
MENTAL ILLNESS, WHICH IS THE REASON HE BRUTALLY
KILLED AND BUTCHERED PROSTITUTES, MUTILATING
THEIR BODIES AND REMOVING THEIR ORGANS.
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