Jack the Ripper: Murder Scenes: Real Dialogue and Photos

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The Dorset Street area was lined with lodging houses packed with people not much better off than the homeless. While investigators were able to determine the sort of weapon used, the fact that the Ripper was right handed, whether the victim bled to death or was strangled, and the time of death, nothing brought them closer to discovering the murderer’s identity.

And that eyewitness gave a vivid description of the guy: 5’7”, mid-twenties or early thirties, with a red checkered bandana around his neck.It is here, on an unseasonably chilly evening near Spitalfields Market within the Whitechapel district, that a disparate bunch of tourists and I find Johnny, a lifelong Ripperologist and, as we will shortly discover, our impressively enthusiastic guide for “The Jack the Ripper Tour, brought to you by Ripper-Vision ™. The city reclaimed Mary Kelly’s grave in the 1950s, and John Morrison built a large headstone for her in 1986. Our surroundings as we listen to the litany are unsettlingly appropriate: Around us are multiple pubs crowded with post-work drinkers, now several hours into their cups.

Your guide has lived in the centre of London for over 20 years (for 5 years right in Whitechapel, where the Jack the Ripper murders took place).There were many people who fit the profile of Jack the Ripper but some of the most likely suspected identities were Russian physician Michael Ostrog, English Royal physician Sir William Gull, German painter Walter Sickert, English lawyer Montague Druitt, and Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski. Notable: Galton also defined and studied the concept of “eugenics,” so that’s an uncomfortable rabbit hole all its own. The murder of Mary Kelly took place in he room, 13 Miller’s Court, off Dorset Street, in Spitalfields. He had a short, carroty moustache, a billycock hat, a longish dark shabby coat, and a quart pail of beer,” Cox said. All of this happened in the 1800’s but you can see the story of Jack the Ripper in movies, magazines, museums, and books.