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 * JACK THE RIPPER**

Jack the Ripper was the name given to a serial killer who ravaged Whitechapel, London, in 1888. Five murders are normally acknowledged to be the work of Jack the Ripper, and they all took place between August 31st and november 9th 1888. His victims were female prostitutes whose throats were cut before he would proceed to slash them open, and remove abdominal viscera.

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According to the Wikipedia article on Jack the Ripper (of 26.11.09), the victims of Jack the Ripper were:
 * 1) Mary Ann Nicholls, who was murdered August 31st 1888. The body was discovered with the throat severed by deep cuts, its abdomen slashed violently open and with a number of smaller cuts in her abdomen and on her right side.
 * 2) Annie Chapman, murdered on the 8th of September 1888, she was found with her throat sliced open, her abdomen brutally opened and her uterus removed from the body.
 * 3) Elizabeth Stride was killed 30. Septemer 1888, her throat cut, causing her to bleed to death. A theory that the murderer was interrupted during this kill formed after this murder due to the lack of injuries to the woman's abdomen.
 * 4) On the same day as Stride, another woman was killed. Catherine Eddowes was foud with her throat cut, and her stomach ripped open. The left kidney, along with parts of her uterus had been removed.
 * 5) On the 9th of November, the body of Mary Jane Kelly was found on the bed in the room in which she lived. Her throat had been cut and sliced in grusome fashion, while her stomach was cut opened and emptied of almost all of its organs. The woman's heart was missing also. This gruesomly performed act of killing is considered to be the last kill of the Whitechapel Murderer, or as we know him: Jack the Ripper.

Jack the Ripper is not known to have been caught, but many speculate about the police keeping the news of his capture from public. Various people have, through the years, claimed to be the one having performed the murders, and at the same time, suspections and rumours have been going around about the identity of the true killer.

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Source list: Wikipedia article on Jack the Ripper (of 26.11.09)