JACK THE RIPPER | MIDWEEK MYSTERY

hey guys welcome back to my channel for another midweek mystery video this week's video you probably rolled your eyes when you saw the title because I'm sure it's one that you think you know all about Jack the Ripper it's almost an urban legend at this point everyone knows the story of Jack the Ripper but do you actually know the story because I thought the same and then last week I was invited on a press night with a Jack the Ripper tour a link down below I wasn't paid but it was very good so I'd recommend if you are in or around London any point and I realized that I really didn't know the story of Jack the Ripper and I thought I did to start with I'm gonna give you some context this happened in Whitechapel in London in 1888 Jack the Ripper murdered five women who he can be like 100% sure about and potentially others as well Jack mostly targeted prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of Whitechapel now this happened in the 1880s Whitechapel was a very very poor area it was one of the most poverty stricken areas of London just a few miles away in the West End things were thriving there were theatres new restaurants the Royals would spend all their time there at the West End of London was doing really really well the East End not so much people were literally dying on the streets and getting eaten by rats Whitechapel was a breeding ground for crime and poverty - and every ten children would die and this was because of really poor hygiene and disease was spreading everywhere syphilis was particularly bad at this point nobody was able to pay their rent to people working long hours in labor intensive jobs from very very little money the money these people would earn every day would may be enough to get them some stale bread for dinner and a place to lay the head for the night to escape the poverty people would often turn to alcohol spending any spare money they had on getting drunk and so the cycle just continued men found it a little easier than the women the men could get labour jobs but most women had to turn to prostitution just to feed themselves and their families in Whitechapel alone in the official figures for prostitution back in the 1880s was about 1200 prostitutes although the numbers thought actually be a hell of a lot higher than this there were 78,000 people were living in Whitechapel and the best off of them could afford to rent decent terraced houses then you go down a little bit people of renting rooms and you literally rented by the night and then the worst of the people who had dubbed the unfortunates literally were homeless so every night they would stay in common lodging houses and there were so many common lodging houses around the Whitechapel and Spitalfields area some of the larger lodging houses could house up to 2,000 people in one night obviously separating the males and the females and these lodging houses with groom that's the only word I could think of to describe them for four pence a night you could rent a bed which was not dissimilar to the shape and size of a coffin literally just rows and rows of these like wooden paneled beds I don't even know if they had mattresses in them but they were just a place to lay your heads for two pence they would tie a rope between two columns that have one rope acts of like waist height and one rope at shoulder height and you could lean across the rope and guess and sleep like these were really really terrible conditions it was a simple as if you couldn't come up with the money that day then you were spending the night on the streets with the rats with the murderers with the criminals nowadays I'd say Whitechapel is a much more pleasant area it's not one of the richest areas in London but it's definitely not a bad place when I was walking around it last Thursday night I felt completely completely safe it's got thriving businesses and offices it's got a really lively nightlife it's an area that quite a lot of people want to live it's not too far out from the very centre of London generally it's just quite a nice area to be in but you go back 140 years and people were dying on the streets obviously a lot of the old buildings and we knocked down to make way for new businesses new offices but a lot of the original buildings from the 1880s still stand today you can literally walk along within cobblestones touch the same walls and walk into same buildings that Jack the Ripper may have done himself even some of the original gas lamps actually still stand and I did actually get some clips from the tour which I'll insert in now so you can sort of see this area looked like some of these streets are so narrow and so dark obviously in our days these streets are bustling with people who are having a bit of fun after a long day at work back in the 1880s or demean probably just as busy but this time not the people having fun spending their money after work or even people scouring the streets trying to make money now I've set the scene for you let's talk about the murders now there are five murders which are often referred to as the canonical murders these are the ones which are 100% attributed to Jack the Ripper there are other ones as well but I'm not going to start with them I'll talk about those a little bit later the first canonical victim was Mary Ann Nichols he was aged 43 when she was murdered if she'd married William Nichols about twenty four years earlier and together they had five children but the couple had separated in 1880 / 81 and we're not a hundred percent sure widely separated some claim that William had an affair others claim that William couldn't deal with Mary's alcoholism any longer but regardless the two of split they've got to remember in the 1880s a woman was her husband and so it was a huge taboo to have a divorce to split up from her husband a lot these times these women had nowhere else to turn other than prostitution to earn their money especially in London William was required to financially support Mary even after their split so he would send her five shillings a week until he learned that she had turned to prostitution at which point he just stopped sending the money because legally she wasn't allowed to be a prostitute so he didn't have to send her the money anymore so she got work at workhouse and then became a domestic servant but nothing ever really worked out for her so eventually she just uses prostitution as her main way of making money at the time of her death she was living at a common lodging house in Spitalfields now Mary died on the 31st of August 1988 and she was last seen on the morning of her death at 2:30 a.m. by her roommate Emily Holland now she actually shared a room at a lodging house with Emily married actually in turn away from the lodging house that night because she didn't have the money required to stay there so she said she was just gonna go out earning on the streets and she'd be back later now her body was discovered in box row which is now durwood at 3:40 a.m. so between 2:30 and 3:40 something horrific and her the men who found her actually presumed her just to be drunk and passed out on the streets this was very very common to find people just passed out in doorways the middle of the street like it happened all the time the fact they thought she was drunk wasn't really anything so when these men found her her skirt was actually raised up around her waist and you've got to remember that it would have been really really dark gas lamps really didn't admit much light at all of the equivalent to a 20 watt bulb or a large candle so if the lights all the way up here you're not gonna be able to see something on the ground so they just see their skirts up around her waist and they just pull it down so they wander around trying to find a police officer on his beat to let them know that there is somebody passed out down the street and they come across PC Jonah's Mizen as Mizen starts to walk towards a body constable John Neil actually gets there first that he was coming in the opposite direction and so Neil stops to pull her up and as he's up Stoops down to pull her up he realizes that her neck has been slashed so badly that she was actually nearly decapitated so a man called dr. Lillian was actually woken and taken to the scene where he pronounced her dead pretty much as soon to get there it's quite obvious that she's dead although her body was actually still warm so she really hadn't been dead for that long so he puts her in an ambulance which at this time would have been a stretcher on a cart and a pony I took her to the nearest police station once there Lou and examined the body and discovered the true extent to how badly she had been murdered this next thing about to tell you I took word-for-word from a newspaper from the time and it says found that besides the wound and throat the lower part of the abdomen was completely ripped open with the bowels protruding the wound extends nearly to a breast and must have been affected with a large knife the hands are bruised and bare evidence of having engaged in severe struggle some of the front teeth have been knocked out and the face is bruised and discolored so it looks like she put up some kind of fight she'd been slashed right across her throat and her abdomen had been opened from her pelvis right up to her breastbone somebody had just slashed right and all of her organs were coming out the reason nobody had seen this before is a because it was dark also Victorian woman would wear a lot of different layers like they'd wear big dresses big skirts and when these men pulled the skirt down at the scene nobody could have guessed what was lying than to me the low end also noticed after it had been slashed twice once of the full way across and then another time not as deeply sort of just about halfway he speculated through like the fault of the carts that whoever had done this was actually left-handed which is quite different from what the rest of the doctors say and there's also a thumb bruise on the right side of her face as if her head had meet up grabs and forced back he said that her abdomen had been slashed after she was dead so somebody had just come up to her slashed her throat and then once she was dead they'd started to mess with the abdomen and that was actually a surprisingly small amount of blood at the crime scene leading people to believe that Mary was actually murdered elsewhere and her body was placed where it was found please questions everyone who is working and living nearby but nobody had heard a single thing including constable John Neill who was actually on the beat on this street at the time he hadn't heard or seen anything now of course they didn't know who Mary was at first people didn't really carry IDs in these days so they actually had to go around to the lodging houses ask if anybody was missing and eventually Mary's roommate came forward and said that Polly was missing and Mary was actually known as Polly - a lot of people's over on the streets so eventually they were able to identify her through this they got William Nichols into like formally identify her and yes it was Mary Nichols of course this point nobody knew that they had a potential serial killer on the loose female prostitutes often turn up dead in Whitechapel like it was just a risk of being a prostitute on the streets around this area they died a lot but they had no idea what this would murder would turn into they thought that she'd had an argument or somebody that somebody had robbed her although she only had two possessions on her at the time and these were all of her worldly possessions she had a broken comb and a broken lookingglass that was it and nobody had taken any of them so she clearly wasn't robbed as early as this though they knew that whoever had killed her had some kind of an atomic knowledge whoever done this knew what they were doing they knew how to kill and you how to open the abdomen and have a look around later theories really looked into doctors and butchers now I'm gonna say at this point that there are post mortem photos available of all of these victims online you can see like what they look like after they were dead I'm not going to be including them in this video because I don't like to include photos of like dead bodies or anything really graphic in these and but they are online if you do want to go find them and they're pretty easy to find just go on Wikipedia the next death was that of Annie Chapman and she was discovered about 6:00 a.m. on Saturday the 8th of September near a doorway in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street in Spitalfields Annie married John Chapman where she was 28 years old and together they had three children however their oldest child Emily died of meningitis when she was 12 years old and after this the couple turned to drink the couple separated in 1884 most likely due to their heavy drinking and John had to send Annie and allowance of 10 shillings I'm not sure if that's a week or a month I'm not sure on that however this actually stopped when John discovered that Annie was living with another man or some other sources say they stopped when John actually died suddenly again I'm not 100% sure all this information is like 140 years old so you can't take everything at face value um however strangely enough the man that Annie was living with actually left her soon after this money stopped so slightly that he was with her just for the money after this Annie gets even more depressed and turns further in to drink her life is just on a downward spiral by 1888 she was living in lodging houses and she was making money by crocheting and selling clothes on the streets and she was also doing prostitution on the side at 6:00 a.m. on the day she died elderly resident of 29 Hanbury Street opened up the back door he immediately sees Annie's body her skirt lying around her waist and he runs out and calls for a policeman moments later inspector Joseph Chandler arrives at the scene and he calls for dr. George Baxter Phillips shortly afterwards next up I'm going to read excerpt from the inquest testimony this is pretty much word for words so the left arm was placed across the left breast the legs were drawn up feet resting on the ground and the knees turned outwards the face was swollen and turned to the right this goes on for a while it says that the body was terribly mutilated the stiffness of the limbs were not marked so rigor mortis hadn't set in yet but it was evidently commencing he should say that the instrument used on the throat and abdomen was the same it must have been a very sharp knife with a thin narrow blade probably at least six to eight inches in length probably longer he noticed this they'd similar to those used by slaughter men but not those who are sore butchers or working in the leather trade it says there were indications of anatomical knowledge the dead had been deceased at least two hours when it was found but he does know that it was a very cold morning and so this could like sped up the process so it might be in less than two hours and there's no evidence of a struggle taking place and she entered the yard alive the post-mortem said that there was a bruise over the right temple and right eyelid and no two distinct bruises each the size of a man's thumb on her upper chest almost if she had been pushed down the throat had been severed and the incisions looked as if they had started from the left side of the neck there were two distinct clean cuts on the left side of the spider going parallel to each other from the muscular structures around here it seemed like they were trying to remove the vertebra from the neck and the deceased was far advanced in disease of the lungs and membrane of the brain she had tuberculosis and it's very likely that she would've died very very soon after this if she hadn't been murdered anyway the abdomen had been entirely laid open the intestines had been lifted out of the body and placed over the shoulder of the core the uterus the upper part of the vagina and two-thirds of the bladder had been removed and have never been found the incisions were clean cuts off like done in one fell swoop which makes again the people believe that this was done by somebody who knew what they were doing it stated in the post-mortem this kind of thing take even a trained surgeon an hour but from the timeline which I'm about to tell you it looks like it was done in about 15 minutes probably less Annie Chapman was last seen at 5:30 a.m. with a man she was leaning against the shutters of 29 Hanbury Street and the person who saw saw Annie with this man never saw the man's face because he was already talking to Annie and Annie was the one leaning up against shutters however they did say the man was dressed kind of Shapley in an oversized coat I'm a few moments after there's a man called Albert kadosh enters the yard to use the outhouse he lived in 27 Hanbury Street so sort of like the next house along and obviously the two yards were separated by a tall wooden fence so we can't see anything be his kind of a commotion here's somebody say no and here's something which he later perceived to be a body be pushed against the fence again with the amount of crime that tended to happen in these areas he really didn't think much of it he used the outhouse and he went back inside the house so the neighbor hears this about 5:30 a.m. and the body is discovered at 6:00 a.m. so that's a half an hour at most the killer then goes quiet for a couple of weeks before returning with a vengeance he murders two women in one night now this point in the media are going crazy of this they're reporting every single detail of this case I mean it's shocking you look back in case it happened 30 40 years ago and I really struggle to sort of get all of the information together to do one of these videos however this video on murders that happened back in 1888 I have a whole wealth of information available to me and that's because the media clung on to this so bad they get reported every single little detail true crime isn't just something that people are fascinated with nowadays it's always been that sort of the darker side of the human psyche people have always wanted to know about things like this people are hooked and newspapers are flying off the shelves and at this point the police are stumped please have absolutely nothing now two murders happen both very very similar and they've got nothing it's at this point so on the 27th of September 1988 a letter arrives it arrives at the central news agency and it's often referred to nowadays as the dear boss letter that was quite a long letter I'm not read it all out but I put up on screen now and also you'll be able to find it online but the gist of it is dear boss keep on hearing the police have caught me but they won't fix me just yet I am down on [ __ ] and shan't quit ripping them until I do get buckled grand work the last job words I gave the lady no time to squeal the next job I do I shall clip the lady's ear off and send to the police officers just for jolly wouldn't you yours truly Jack the Ripper and he says don't mind me giving the trade name and is actually written in red ink what he says he used to emulate Bloods he intended to use blood it was a bit too messy he couldn't so he just used red ink in stairs and he hoped it was good enough so this is where the name Jack the Ripper comes from the killer actually signed it himself named himself Jack the Ripper although it's highly unlikely that his name is actually Jack I mean the police actually thought this was a hoax at first they did not for a second think it was real it was only after the next two murders happened that they start to thinking that maybe there was some basis to this the first of these two murders was Elizabeth stride she's 44 years old and living in a lodging house in Spitalfields now Elizabeth was actually Swedish but she'd moved to London some 20 years earlier she lived in Whitechapel area for the previous six years and she lived in the lodging house were pretty much all of that time unlike most of the other victims who had fallen prostitution later in life mostly other victims actually grown up pretty well-off and but obviously failed marriages deaths of children poor health led them to turn to prostitution and Lisbeth had always been prostitute she'd been a prostitute since she was of like in her early 20s the year she moved to London she actually married a man called John stride but they separated in 1881 that seems to be a running theme here they were separated from their husbands she told a lot of tall tales like she was a bit of a compulsive liar she told somebody that two of her nine children had died in the sinking of the Princess Alice in the Thames in 1978 in actuality she had no children and after separating she lived in the common lodging house but also she was in a relationship with a local man called michael kidney who she'd had an on-off relationship with for years Elizabeth body was found at 1:00 a.m. of youth of September now some people discount her as one of the rippers victims because she wasn't a mutilated as badly as the others her abdomen wasn't slashed open but the likelihood is that the Ripper just got disturbed and couldn't finish his work at 11:45 p.m. she's seen on burner street talking to a man wearing a short black coat and a sailor's hat and the newspaper article I read actually said that they were kissing and carrying on so shortly after this at 12:35 a.m. she's seen again on burner Street with a man just outside of the International workingmen's educational club um this person who saw her with this man at 12:30 gives a slightly different description he says this man's about 28 years old says wearing a dark coat and a hard deerstalker hat and apparently he was carrying a parcel that was about six inches high and 18 inches in length and the descriptions were so different that people actually think this is likely two different men so she probably saw one man about 11:45 and then swiftly moved on to second around 12:30 I mean she was working as a prostitute so that's not really that unlikely the second man she was seen with is likely the murderer late twenties about five foot five fresh complexion dark hair and a mustache this matches other potential descriptions that we've got of Jack the Ripper as well so about 1:00 a.m. a man called Lois dime shots enters duck-billed yard with his cart and pony and immediately the pony starts to shy away it won't walk forwards and solo he gets off his car to see what's in the waist issues that it must be something that he can't see like I said very very dark this was an enclosed yard I don't even know if there would be any sort of lighting in this area Louie couldn't see a thing was Pony knew that something was there he gets down off the cart and lights a match and sees a woman lying on the floor and he shoes again like most the others have done that she was drunk and passed out so he goes into the nearby working men's club and gets a couple of men out sort of help him get this woman up it's when he returns to the yard with the two of the men that they realized that she's dead and her throat has been slit - she believed Louis disturbed the Ripper when he entered the yard the Ripper was about to do his whole deal and Louie comes in with his cart and Pony of course can't see anything but they don't actually think that it was the Adie that made the pony shy they think that the pony could sense there was somebody else there Louis said that he 100% believed he was in that yard in that enclosed space with the Ripper because his pony kept on acting really weird it kept like shying and jumping and he's pretty sure that he was in there with the Ripper obviously when he went inside the working men's club the Ripper would have escaped the yard at this point the doctor who arrives at the scene that this one is a Dr blackwell he arrived shortly after they raised the alarm and he pronounces Elizabeth dead at 1:16 a.m. and George Baxter Phillips is the one who actually does a post-mortem he's already done one of the other women and so he says that the body was lying on the near side of the face turned towards the wall the head of the odds and feet towards the street the throat was deeply gashed and there was an abrasion of the skin about 1.5 inches in diameter underneath her right arm cut on the neck was 6 inches in length a clean cut all arteries were cut through on the left side no other recent external injury saved to the net the Mason TV report only got to the point where he managed to slice the neck before he was disturbed however the Ripper doesn't stop there because he clearly wasn't satiated with this he goes on to murder Catherine Eddowes his second victim that night and fourth overall Catherine Eddowes was also known as Kate Kelly she had three children with a man called Thomas Conway although we don't actually think that he was ever married they split in 1881 and Catherine moves to a lodging house in Whitechapel where she meets John Kelly the two hopped around the country together before returning back to Whitechapel as she was well known around the lodging house the deputy saying that she wasn't often in drink and she was a very jolly woman often at singing although a lot of people dispute this and say that she was a bit of an alcoholic and catherine was the only victim who was actually not a prostitute so on the night the 29th Catherine Eddowes gets so drunk that she can barely stand and so an officer takes her to the police station and puts her in a Cell this is about 8:00 p.m. they check on her every half an hour to see if she sobered up and around 1:00 a.m. they decided that she's sober enough to let go roam the streets again and the officer who releases her says to her like now miss you go home go back to the lodging house don't get yourself in any trouble and Catherine Eddowes conscious laughs and walks in the opposite direction she heads in the direction of Aldgate High Street now 1:35 a.m. two men leave a club on Duke Street and as they leave they see Catherine standing on the corner of Duke Street and Church passage talking to a man and they later identified that this was her through the clothes she was wearing now bear in mind that Catherine was not a prostitute so she wasn't trying to solicit this man but she's facing the man her hand is on his chest not sure if she was tried to push him away or if it was just like she was drunk I just sort of leaning on him the man is described as 30 years old about 5 foot 7 fair complexion and a mustache he's wearing salt pepper colored coats sort of like a gray and white mild coat a grey peaked cap peaky blinders style and he's got a red neckerchief tied around his neck this is possibly the opposite of what people think of when they think of Jack the Ripper he's gone down in urban legend as somebody who wore a dark top hat and a dark cloak but in reality he dressed like any other man this man who they saw with Catherine has to be the Ripper because just ten minutes later her body's discovered her body was found in mitre square now I actually have a video clip of the exact spot where her body was found now it's been paved over with brick back in those times it would have been a cobble stone mitre square used to be a fairly enclosed area with terraced housing and a brick wall a catherine was found right in the corner between the brick wall and the housing in the darkest part of the square that was solved like it would've been square with a sort small opening here and a small opening here nowadays is all what we knocked down it's quite a nice oval office space nice areas go and sit in back in 1880 it's the murder spot feet were found in the corner and her head was off facing out towards the middle of the square and before she was found multiple officers actually walked into the square back in those days police officers didn't drive around the police cars they do today they would be on the beat walking the streets each police officer had that sort of like area which they literally just walk in circles around and quite a few police officers entered this square and it's highly highly likely that someone them even entered the square whilst the Ripper was doing his business she's eventually discovered at 1:45 a.m. by PC Edward Watkins and dr. Frederick Brown arrives the scene again and he gets there about 2:00 a.m. and the body is still warm when he gets there rigor mortis had set in she barely been dead half an hour at this point her neck had been slashed and her windpipe was cut in half she would have died pretty much instantly which would explain why there was no sound nobody heard anything she wouldn't have even had time to scream but there was no blood source parted around which people found quite strange usually if he cut somebody's neck that's gonna come out but there was no blood really the abdomen had been cut open at breastbone to pelvis and her intestines had been dragged out and placed over her right shoulder about two foot up her bowels will cut away and gently placed between her left arm and her body like he'd thought about what he was doing he like gently placed it down and part of the right ear was cut away and was later found in the folds of the clothes and this matches up with the threat that was made in the dear boss letter saying he was gonna cut off part of the ear and send it to the police he did cut off the year only clearly didn't have time to save it or maybe he lost it and send it back to them Katherine's face was also mutilated which is the first time that I'd really happened she cuts through both of her eyelids across her nose and right down the side of her face like literally the skin was like wrapping open and it revealed all of the muscles underneath the wound had been cut out and taken away and also part of the kidneys as well and this is what mainly he's pleased to believe that whoever did this really hated females in general because they were like targeting the uterus the womb they were like taking away that part of a woman's body a number of detectives were sent out to search the streets and try and find this man but they never found anyone they never saw anybody covered in blood nobody reported seeing anybody covered in blood it was just always very very strange whoever did this must have known the area's whelks he knew where to hide any knew where to go to blend in he's murdered twice within an hour and nobody has seen or heard anything however a 255 a.m. the police find a bite to clue their first piece of like tangible evidence in this case it showed that the killer had fled eastwards and in the stairwell entry of 108 to 119 Goulston Street it was of like a model dwellings now a fish and chips shop they found the missing piece of Catherine Eddowes apron covered in blood and fecal matter alongside this they found a message scrawled on the wall it read the jews spelt ju w es r the manner that will not be blamed for nothing and there's been a lot of question over this particular message over the years the dwelling was out mainly of jewish families and shock horror victorian england was hugely racist particularly towards jews there have been many rumors circulating that the killer was a jewish man who had been dubbed leather apron but will talk about him in more depth later when I'm talking about suspects please Superintendent Thomas Arnold attended the scene and decided if the rioting was left there it was going to incite a riot and people already on edge people already blaming the Jews the Jews were angry that people were blaming them and honestly this area was just days away from just complete carnage so Thomas Arnold makes the decision to cover it up or get rid of it in those days it would have taken literally hours to get a photographer to attend the scene take the photo and by the time he got there it would have been daylight and people would have seen the message and the police didn't want this Arnold's just asked a nearby man standing over the sponge just to wash the graffiti away and this caused huge controversy because this was a massive massive clue in the investigation and they just washed it away you see Catherine Eddowes have been murdered in the city of London police territory but the graffiti was found in the Metropolitan Police territory and throughout all the murders these two sets a place of bickering with each other just sort of butting heads because they didn't agree on what they should be doing according to Arnold the handwriting did not match that of the dear boss letter although who can really be sure I mean Arnold has clearly messed up here he's wiped away the Kapiti when he should have left it of course he's turn around we like no it didn't match anyway as fine it wouldn't have been the same person and the Creasy could have been there for a long time forehand it could have been completely unrelated but the fact that apron was found in this stairwell with this particular graffiti was just very telling and the graffiti is often interpreted lots of different ways are they saying the Jews did it or was it written by a Jew nobody's ever been a hundred things sure and of course nobody apart from Thomas Arnold even really knew what it said in the first place on the first of October so the very next day the central news agency received a second letter this time in the form of postcard often referred to as the saucy Jacky postcards and the writing is very very similar to the last one the dear boss letter and it makes direct reference to the letter and the two murders of the previous night it could be a hoax but is highly highly unlikely because it made so many references the first letter and they actually don't think that it would have been posted in time to arrive when it did this postcard had to have been posted after the two murders but before the first news cycle of the next day because back in these times newspapers that all people had to rely on for their information so wouldn't just be one newspaper a day they would be constantly churning out new newspapers sometimes two or three a day just to get the latest out there so it could have been a hoax but the writing was very very similar lest both letters were a hoax we'll never really know the postcard doesn't have the best grammar but it reads I was not coding dear old boss when I gave you the tip you'll hear about saucy Jackie's work tomorrow double event this time number one squealed a bit couldn't finish straight off haha not the time to get ears for police thanks for keeping last letter back till I got to work again signed Jack the Ripper he's basically saying he could finish it Elizabeth strides murder straight off and it wasn't the time to get ears for police obviously he goes to murder Catherine Eddowes and tries to get the ear but maybe got distracted and it just wasn't the time to get it understandably around this time people are getting angry they've fed up with the police and their inaction although the police don't really know where to even start and so the Whitechapel vigilance committee is forms this is a group of local volunteers who would get unemployed men to roam the streets between 12:00 and 5:00 a.m. every single night they were looking of the killer and the committee was actually set up by a local man called George Lusk but they weren't concerned about people dying they were concerned about the effect that these murders were having on local businesses but they couldn't care less about the prostitutes dying they really couldn't they were just worried about their own businesses and these men would stroll the streets every night there was of hand-picked unemployed men and on the 16th of October George Lusk receives a letter himself and this is referred to as the from Hell letter it was received in a 3 inch square cardboard box inside was half a human kidney marinated in wine along with a letter the human kidney likely belong to Catherine Eddowes of course it didn't have the technology at the time to confirm this letters actually postmarked from hell it says mr. Lusk saw I send you half the kidney I took from one woman and preserved it for you two other piece I fried and ate it it was very nice I may send you the bloody knife that took out if you only wait a while longer signed catch me if you can mr. Lusk like I said earlier the media had been loving all of this it was making newspapers fly off the shelves up and down the country I mean and wasn't just being covered in London I've read newspaper articles from up in Sunderland like they were so on it they covered every single gory town it's shocking how much we know about it now in 2018 and it's because of all the articles and they actually referred to Jack the Ripper as the first serial killer of course he wasn't but it was the first serial killer that got this level of media attention the first one that was being spoken about by everyone all the time however around this time after Katherine Eddowes murder I think they realized it was a bit too much and so when the final murder happens they don't recover it in as much detail I don't exactly know why this is but I think some of the papers just realized that it wasn't healthy to be sharing this amount of detail in the papers and it was probably harming the police investigation I mean it was definitely harming the peace investigation because everyone knew every detail they had nothing held back they could use to capture this guy and this last murder was horrifying it was by far the worst of the lot this was Mary Kelly who was generally thought of as being the rippers last victim something happened to the Ripper after this either he got incarcerated he died he commits suicide he was murdered nobody really knows but we do know that the Ripper kind of stopped after this or he completely changed his MO nobody really knows much about Mary Kelly we know that she was Irish she may have married someone around 1879 who later died in a mining accident she was about 20 years younger than the rest of the victims she was in her early 20s at 25 years old and people thought that she came from a pretty well-off family that was thought the general idea that people got of her but nobody really knows Mary didn't live in a lodging house she actually lived at 13 Miller's Lane in a single furnished room at the back of the house the man called Joseph Barnett they will have paid around 8 pence for this night Mary had actually lost her key to this room and so she broke a window while she was drunk and she would lean in and out of this window to bolt and unbolt the door which isn't the safest of where he's to live you question why she bothered look in the door at all if anybody could lean in and just unlock it a week before her death Joseph actually left Mary because they've been having arguments over her sharing the room with another prostitute who was just known as Julia Joseph didn't feel comfortable with this he didn't want to share the room with somebody else and so they argued even though they did still see each other even after he left Joseph lost all Mary around 7:00 p.m. on the night that she died now a laborer called George who knew of Mary I don't think they were like really close they knew each other reported seeing her around 2:00 a.m. when she asked him for a loan of sixpence and he says that he doesn't have any money he can't give it to her and so she says good morning I must go find some money and then walks away and George watches as a man approaches her and a man that like puts his hand on her shoulder and the two start talking then laughing the man is clearly very charming and the two begin to walk away they're walking towards Dorset Street when George overhears the man say you'll be alright for what I've told Jew and George gets really good look at this man he's pale complexion got a slight mustache he's got dark hair dark eyes bushy brows he says that he was of Jewish appearance around five foot six to five at seven thirty to thirty five years old he had a cap pulled down really low over his face he matched all the other descriptions of people had potentially given off Jack the Ripper he was also carrying a parcel a long thin parcel I think we can assume that in this parcel was his knife George for whatever reason decides to follow them back to the home so he follows them back to menace courts and he stays there watching the room he knows the to have got into the room and he's just watching it until 3:00 a.m. he said that he knew that he left at 3:00 a.m. because he waited for the clock to strike this is very creepy I don't know why George was just watching the room and maybe he was a little bit evacuated with Mary we'll never really know but it is a really important piece of information in this case so I suppose we're glad that he did do it after I am at Mary's neighbor returns home and reports hearing men coming and going throughout the night of course not just Mary's room all the other rooms and she doesn't notice anything suspicious and when her upstairs neighbor actually reports waking up at around 4:30 a.m. and hears a cry somebody shouting murder but it was Whitechapel a lot of people got murdered and she didn't really think much of it and so she just goes back to sleep at 10:45 a.m. the next morning Jordan McCarthy arrives to collect his rent and he's knocking on the door and there's no answer so he opens the curtain and peers inside and what he sees is the unmistakeably dead body of Mary Kelly lying on the beds I mean this murder was brutal you could just look at her from afar and know for a fact that she was long gone and McCarthy actually calls the police but they don't seem to arrive for a while I mean actually says a few hours later he actually knocked the door down himself at the insistence of the police but I don't know why it took so many hours for the police to arrive Intendant Thomas Arnold is there and they note that the clothes are neatly folded on the chair her boots in front of the fireplace and her body is on the bed the whole surface of her abdomen and thighs were removed I'm talking her thigh was down to the bone again you can see both of this online but it is very graphic like you can literally see her thigh bone and they have taken away like the muscle her fat to skin everything and they done similar on her abdomen like it was just opened her breasts have been cut off one was by her head and one was by her right foot and her liver was put between her feet and her intestines were by the right side of her body like this person had really gone to town probably because he knew that he was just in a room and he had no chance of being caught so he just went in there and did everything that he wanted to do the neck was slashed so far down that you could see her vertebra and her face was gashed in all directions her bedclothes were covered in blood the entire body was just Visser rated and after this one the river just stops now like I mentioned at the beginning of this video there are a couple of other suspected victims of him but their murders are a little bit different they know me able to freely confirm and the first one was Emma Elizabeth Smith who was robbed and sexually assaulted in Whitechapel on the 3rd of April that same year she had a blunt object and Sirte din to her vagina and she died the next day in hospital because of her injuries I personally don't think this one had anything to do with Jack the Ripper it just isn't very him and a lot of people do mention it when they talk about other suspected victims I thought throw it in here and the second one it was Martha Tabram now Martha was killed on the 7th Walker so much closer to the time frame as she suffered 39 stab wounds in George yard in Whitechapel which is very very close to where all the other murders took place now this is obviously very different because she was stabbed she wasn't sort of like mutilated in any way it was just 39 straight stab wounds so the mo was slightly different but the amount of savagery behind it kind of matches up maybe it was Jack the Ripper's Firth killing he didn't really know what he wanted to do what you liked I surprised for lack of a better word I personally think the Martha may have been a victim but Emily so so is the end of the murders the Ripper just goes quiet people are waiting for ages from to strike again and he just never does and the police still don't have a clue who they're looking for the extent of the police's knowledge about Jack's report was that he was likely right-handed and likely had a basic knowledge of anatomy but that was pretty much it and even those two points have been strongly disputed over the years there's a white male here's around five foot six had facial hair he had pale skin dark hair and probably dark eyes but that could be a lot of people in London the thing a lot of people find strange about these attacks though is that it wasn't sexual he never sexually assaulted or raped any of these women or so it seemed anyway from the post-mortems at the time but people do think he gained some kind of sexual pleasure from what he was doing and now we can talk about some suspects now there are literally hundreds of suspects as to Jack the Ripper could be I'm gonna talk about some of the ones which I find most interesting but I'm probably gonna miss out your favor I always have people like missing me like whitey not missing this person honestly I'm gonna talk about the ones I find most interesting or the ones that always seem to pop up but if you have a Jack the Ripper suspect that I didn't talk about then well tell us about them down below the first one that always pops up is man could Montague Jordan drew it now Montague was barrister he also worked as a schoolmaster on the side to sort of like make up his money and he worked in Blackheath in London before he was dismissed shortly before he died Monta views very decomposed body was found floating in the river Thames on December 31st 1888 and it's thought that he committed suicide a month or so before hands in all honesty there's really not loads of evidence to back up Montague being Jack the Ripper but he's always one of the first names you see when use of type in Jack the Ripper suspects and this is because the police actually named him as a suspect around February room 89 the police actually said in public that Montek huge obdurate was one of their main suspect because the probable timing of his death matched perfectly with the end of the Jack the Ripper killings but other than that they really haven't got anything they say that he could be mad that he was fired and so went on this killing spree honestly that's my heir his mother and grandmother suffered with mental health issues so it's likely he had some sort of hereditary issue himself and this could have prompted him to do the killings but eventually the police just had to turn around be like no this guy isn't the one we don't have anything on him and so he was dismissed as a suspect although even nowadays he's still talked about as being one of the main suspects and now we can talk about Aaron Kaminsky know our Kaminsky is probably people's favorite suspect nowadays he was a Polish Jew who emigrated to London when he was younger with his family and please actually at the time named one of their main suspects as a man called Kaminsky now they never gave a first name historians now believe that they meant this man Aaron Kaminsky the police suspected him at the time because he was believed to really have a great hatred of women and apparently had homicidal tendencies and that's the main reason they thought it was him he lived close to the murders he was known to solicit prostitutes and he was also known to have spent time in an asylum for mental problems back in Victorian times mental problems automatically meant you a criminal and honestly people who had mental health issues really weren't the same as people today obviously there were people who have bipolar schizophrenia and all that but you could get sent to asylums for being a homosexual for masturbation literally anything so we don't really know why Kaminsky was in asylums it could have mean for any a tiny little reason but a lot of people do say that he was likely schizophrenic however Aaron Kaminsky was always described as being harmless in the asylums he wasn't a violent person the most he did was throw a chair at a worker one day he wasn't homicidal he wasn't killing people and also his English was really really poor he mainly spoke Yiddish so would he really be able to sort of talk to these women and coerce them into dark corners it's highly unlikely and people even heard him speaking the Jack the Ripper suspect they heard him speak to these people and they never said he had any kind of accent in 2014 a historical DNA expert announced that he was testing Catherine Eddowes shul apparently an author had bought her short at an auction and they were testing it for DNA now their existent this shul did belong to Catherine however in this or list of things that Catherine had on her when she was found dead Asher is now however according to them this was all the thing she was wearing when she was murdered and so they were testing it for DNA they tested Catherine's DNA like through her line of descendants and they were also testing for Aaron Kaminsky's DNA as well they took Aaron Kaminsky sister traced down her line of descendants and then tested the DNA against that person this historical DNA expert said on their first test it struck him 99.2% match to Aaron Kaminsky or on the second test is struck a hundred percent match to Aaron Kaminsky Aaron Kaminsky's DNA was on the show of course this is absolutely huge when this first came out I remember it being like all over the Internet however there's no guarantee that the DNA found in the show is actually that of the killer sure Aaron's DNA may be on there but Catherine at the end of the day would have come into contact with a lot of different people on the streets and it's not crazy to think that the two could have crossed paths at some point I'm sure there's hundreds of other people's DNA on there as well because this shawl has be handled by hundreds of people people have been touching without gloves breathing on it sneezing on it for 140 ish years now so yeah maybe it is quite telling that his DNA is on the shawl but honestly it doesn't mean anything you don't know for 100% certainty than the DNA is that the killer the next suspect is John Heiser now John Paizo is the leather apron suspect I mentioned earlier he was a Polish Jew who was a boot maker so he would wear a leather apron now John was known to be kind of a petty criminal earlier in that same year some knee had gone around assaulting lots of different prostitutes in the Whitechapel area and the number one suspect in those assaults was John paisa because the man always wore a leather apron and that's what John Peyser dates please kinda knew it was John Peter who was committing these assaults but they didn't really care or they didn't have enough to actually arrest him for it John pyre also always carried a knife on him no matter what time of day he had a knife and the knife would have been similar to the one that was used on all the murders john Peyser was one of the earliest suspects for the Jack the Ripper murders he was actually arrested after the first two murders but they kind of just arrested him because they knew he had kind of a history of assaulting prostitutes and thought oh maybe is this guy in actuality they didn't have anything on him and he was released he also had very strong alibis for a few of the murders one of them he was actually standing with a police officer watching a fire in the London dog so he physically couldn't have been there and murdering someone else John Peyser was mainly a suspect due to animosity rather than anything else at least knew he was a dodgy guy and we're trying to get him on something but there was never anything on him and then we're gonna talk about some more kind of unlikely suspects but once you hear about a lot when you bring up Jack the Ripper HH Holmes this is one that's come into the spotlight really recently I think just last year this sort came out in the news it could have been HH Holmes so if you haven't heard of Holmes he was an American serial killer he said to have killed more than 200 people but he was actually only convicted of 9 he is the builder of the infamous murder castle he is kind of what American Horror Story hotel is based on he built this building with a lease all dungeons and secret rooms and passageways and tunnels purely to murder people so it seems it's quite often referred to in today's culture as the murder hotel but there isn't actually any proof that was ever used as a hotel anyway he started his murder spree around 1886 and the theory goes that he traveled to London for a small period where he committed the Jack the Ripper murders and then traveled back to America apparently there's just like a big gap in all his murders he was committing over in America and people say like the jack of murders fit perfectly it's unlikely I think but I think that is a chance like there's always a chance it could have been him there is no alibi for him really during that time but anyway last year in 2017 a descendant of HH Holmes actually compared Holmes's writing to that of Jack the Ripper and said it was very very similar and a lot of people think that it was him due to this maybe maybe not it's definitely one of the more far-fetched theories and but I think he makes more sense than some of the other suspects they were looking at and then there's the Royals if you mention Jack the Ripper to anyone I can guarantee when the first things they'll say is the Royals did it it was the Royals and Prince Albert is always like the number-one suspect here um this is kind of something that's gone down in history but there's really no big sister it whatsoever people still just blindly believe it so the main theory around this is that Prince Albert was having an affair with a shopkeeper and the two had a child together and so Jack the Ripper was someone who was hired by the Royals to go around murdering everyone who knew about Prince Albert's illegitimate child I mean again I'm not saying it's impossible I'm just saying it's kind of unlikely I mean none of these women knew each other like none of the victims so why would they would have randomly know about the shopkeepers child surely more people would know and surely some men would have known so why are they only murdering females doesn't make sense there's a lot of people's favorite theory enough theories that Prince Albert was the murderer himself although he has very strong alibis for most of the murders and he wasn't even in London at the time in all honesty we're probably never gonna know who Jack the Ripper was he is to go down in history as a man without a name he's been mortalized by cartoons of man holding a knife wearing a top hat and the dark cloak but he was just a regular guy I don't think he is any other suspects I've mentioned today I don't think he's any suspect that anybody has ever spoken about I think he was most likely just a man somebody's neighbor somebody's friends and his son who was committing these murders maybe he did get arrested for something else maybe he met an untimely death or maybe he just stopped killing or changed his MO or something like that it literally could have been anyone who lived in the Whitechapel area at the time 78,000 people lived there if you're having that as 40,000 men who it possibly could have been we're never gonna know who he is most of the original files about the Jack the Ripper killings were actually destroyed in the Blitz in World War two and if they weren't destroyed in the ditch they were destroyed shortly after or shortly before because people just assumed that this guy was dead and nobody in their wildest dreams imagined the DNA testing that would be available to them 100 years on and these murders would probably never be matched people will never be able to kill like this again because Jack the Ripper relied on dark corners of nobody seeing him be able to sneak around the streets nowadays with CCTV social media things like this just couldn't happen call serial killers are still a thing and people get murdered but they wouldn't be able to do it in the same way that Jack the Ripper operated think it's been a really long videos if you made it to the end thank you so much for watching I'm in the top-line description and I will link my pins I sell I sell little enamel pins and I am about 40 pounds away from be able to afford a set of LED lights my videos so if you want to put my channel then that's how to do it thank you so much for watching it give me all your requests for videos down below and I'll see you all next one bye guys you

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Length: 54min 9sec (3249 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 12 2018