Jack The Ripper Tour | A Virtual London Walk

so good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome  at two of busy friday nights in the east end of   london firstly why are we here we're here tonight  to talk about one of the most infamous serial   killers in history tonight i'm going to take you  on a journey of 1888 victorian london and tonight   we are doing a jack the repertoire firstly  introductions i've met some of you before thank   you for joining me in my next installment of tours  in london my name is sinead i'm one of the guides   at free tours by foot please like and subscribe  and if you are interested and join us and stay   with us for the end of the tour tonight i'm going  to be talking about the canonical five the five we   categorically know are victims of jack the ripper  now he could be attributed to up to another four   different murders in this part of town but every  ripper guide speaks about the canonical five   tonight we're gonna walk in these footsteps and  i'm gonna bring you to three out of five murder   sites two of those murder sites no longer exist  today london of course was extensively bombed   during world war ii and the worst part  of london to be hit was here in the east   end but wherever possible what i will try to do  is recreate the crime scenes for you by bringing   you down some of the most beautiful 19th century  streets in britain now it's an incredible story   for so many particular reasons number one the  mystery you're joining me tonight but if you're   expecting me to tell you tonight who jack the  ripper is well i'm terribly sorry uh i certainly   won't be able to tell you that criminologists  lecturers ripperologists specialists from all   over the world including the fbi and the cia  have been here investigating jack the ripper   now if they can't tell you who jack the ripper is  i certainly don't claim to be able to do so myself   but i can certainly tell you tonight who i'm  pretty sure he is we'll also speak tonight   about the royal conspiracy centering around  prince albert victor duke of clarence and avon   the grandson of queen victoria same succession  to the throne in 1888 as prince william is to   this day and it's a great story and don't  we all love a good royal conspiracy folks   now the second reason this case is so historic  folks make no mistake about the lust that exists   for jack the ripper now the area the east end  tonight will be exceptionally quiet and that of   course is because we're filming this during well  the covert pandemic so that's a great advantage   for us but ordinarily on a weekend there will  be thousands and thousands of people around here   taking jack the ripper tours and that's a great  advantage for us as i say we'll have all the   murder sites to ourselves but the loss that exists  for jack the ripper today also existed in 1888   this case was the first tabloid sensation  in history one million newspapers a day   were being printed about jack the ripper the  new york times reported daily the sun newspaper   here in london actually reported the jack the  ripper was an escaped baboon from london zoo   nobody believed any human being was capable of  such atrocity but the final reason this case is   so historic the final murder of jack the ripper is  still described to this day by the fbi as one of   the most complex crime scenes in history was also  the very first forensic crime scene photograph in   history and that photograph we will include on the  tour tonight he mutilated mary jane kelly beyond   all recognition the only way she could be  identified was by the clothing she was wearing   the night before so tonight we're going to walk  in these footsteps we're going to describe his   details and murders and details and visit three  out of the five murder sites until we finally try   and come together and decide if we can solve  the history or the mystery of jack the ripper so in order for me to start this story for you  firstly i need to bring you back and transport you   back to 1888 victorian london but more importantly  to the neighborhood we're heading into tonight's   1888 white chapel so 1888 victoria london  london was the richest largest city in the world   it was the epicenter of what was known at the  time as the british empire the largest empire   the world had ever seen queen victoria of course  the rainy monarch she reigned from 1837 to 1901.   63 years seven months and two days on the throne  now victoria just for your own point of interest   not entirely relevant to the case well she held  the title of longest reigning british monarch   up until the 9th of september 2015 when  of course on that date she was surpassed   by the present queen who has now become the  longest reigning british monarch since 1066.   so the victorian era folks was  everything you imagined it to be   opulence grandeur and wealth ladies we were  in beautiful ball gowns and paracel umbrellas   gentlemen top hats and tails elegant horse strong  carriages dinner parties balls and mansions in   the west end what we know today ladies and gents  is westminster piccadilly circus covent garden   leicester square mayfair park lane and belgravia  not i'm afraid where we're headed tonight   in the richest largest city in the world was white  chapel one of the worst third world slums known   to humanity crime was ripe rape burglary sexual  crime now murder was not uncommon in this part   of town but it was the ferocious barbaric nature  of the ripping of the torso and the removing of   organs of the jack the ripper case that gripped  the world in this part of town you lived day to   day nobody had a permanent address nobody had  a fixed abode nobody had a mortgage or rent   your accommodation i use the term loosely  for the privilege of sleeping on six-inch   horsehair mattresses infested with all types  of urine scabies lice and feces in sometimes   overcrowded rooms of up to 24 other people you  were charged four pence for the night you had to   earn that four pence for that roof over your head  the alternative was you slept on the cold violent   streets of white chapel later on i'll be showing  you an example of what was known as a workhouse   where accommodation was free but i can assure  you it came with a very large price so four pence   your day-to-day requirement for that roof over  your head now gentlemen you had some chances of   survival london a very busy rich industrial port  you would cue on the docks for 16 hours of hard   day's manual labor and whatever money you earned  you would make it stretch for the week for the   basic human rights of survival food accommodation  and clothing the area was littered with breweries   tanners and slaughter houses the predominant  employer for men and white chapel in 1888 victoria   london was slaughter butchers or slaughter houses  making it 90 likely that most men at one time   would have worked with a knife so gentlemen some  chance of survival ladies we had none at all   if we didn't get a bit of part-time work cleaning  house or doing sewing repair in the richer part   of town and we had sold everything we owned to  survive we were only left with one thing left   to sell ourselves it is estimated there was up  to 1200 prostitutes working in the white chapel   in 1888 the youngest prostitute on record six  years of age tragic life ensued for these girls   the devil had taken them from the street to  the dos house in the street and back again   but it may have been the washer times but there's  in the tale of two cities by charles dickens it   could also be the best of times this area was  full of cockney wit and charm ale houses pubs   and taverns homegrown gin the drink of choice the  cheapest to make the quickest to get your uncut   and i'm not talking about a nice little  bombay sapphire martini here ladies and gents   i'm talking about a pint of homegrown gin this was  the type of gin they brewed in bathtubs in their   back courtyards it was so potent it would strip  the paint off the bathtubs can you imagine what   it did to these girls faces insides and livers gin  in 1888 victoria london was widely regarded to be   a method of contraception i think we'll all  agree it has the reverse effect nowadays not   surprising all five of jack the ripper's victims  were prostitutes all five were chronic alcoholics   typical day for these girls they take to  the streets they earn their four pence into   the pub pintage in back out on the streets this  endless vicious cycle of the jaw of the alcohol   so by the end of the night they may be left with  a decision to make i have four pence left am i   spending it on gin around my accommodation what do  you think won out gin of course at all times so it   wasn't uncommon to find prostitutes in drunken  stupors all over the streets of white chapel   no street lighting in 1888 so every corner  you took a dark dangerous violent atmosphere   our story begins on the 31st of august 1888 the  autumn of terror is about to begin in the first of   the canonical five mary anne nichols now marianne  started out reasonably well married at 15 which   was commonplace in victorian times but at 29 as  a result of what was said on the police report   her excessive drinking and her immoral behavior  the marriage crumbled and fell apart no spousal   support coming in and no options she is doing  what she knows how to do best she is working the   streets of white chapel ladies and gentlemen she's  drinking in this very building here now erin my   cameraman will just show you over here if the keen  observer if you see on the top of this building   you will see the old victorian pub sign this was  the frying pan pub on bricklay she's drinking in   here in the 31st of august in 1888. she leaves  the pub and she heads down this very street   troll street to a regular accommodation which  should be situated roughly where we were just   by that tree without the force pence first day  she knocks on the door landlord turns her away   not tonight mary no pay no stay now he wasn't  being unreasonable she owed him a lot of money   in back rent but she's not too concerned because  she's wearing this beautiful new bonnet she's   treated herself a beautiful new bonnet with a  black velvet trim she says to him not to worry   sarah i will return look at my jolly new bonnet  she leaves the building she heads about 20 minutes   up the street to the white chapel high street and  she's spotted by her best friend emily holland   she is drunk out of her mind she can barely  stand emily tries to convince her to return to   the accommodation she even offers to pay her four  pence again she's having none of it she said i've   had my dust money three times tonight i've drunk  it won't take me long to earn the fourth go back   i'll see you back there 3 40 a.m two chaps by the  name of charles cross and robert paul are heading   to the river their stable hands at pickford's  stable yard in the pitch dark out of the corner of   his eye charles cross spot something what he said  on the police report he assumed was a tarpaulin   or a bundle of clothes or something he could sell  he gets excited of course he does he runs over   and of course he heads over and it's the  body of a woman now she's lying on her back   her legs are spread her skirt has been lifted  above her neck now he doesn't know if she's   drunk dead alive sober breathing or if she's  been sexually assaulted but i can assure you he   ain't hanging around to find out he's terrified a  policeman would arrive on the scene and he himself   would be incriminated and some form a crime has to  do with this woman so instead the gentleman make a   split decision to leave the crime scene and head  towards the docks and alert the nearest policeman   they see on route and how right he was because  two minutes later comes p c neal he sees her   he kicks her move on you can't sleep here  on you go but of course she doesn't move   so to protect her decency he removes the skirt  from around her neck and as he does he notices her   throat has been slit from left to right right to  left all the way around the back to her vertebrae   about a centimeter incision apart he immediately  calls her assistance and metropolitan police   arrive on the scene her body remains in that  position for three hours while the metropolitan   police take sketches of the crime scene dr  llewellyn arrives on the scene he declares life   extinct but he also remarks  about something rather curious   there's a distinct lack of blood on at the  crime scene for such a traumatic neck injury   this puzzles it her body is removed it is  taken back to white chapel workhouse mortary   and a bucket of water ladies and  gents thrown all over the evidence   no forensic science in 1888 it's in its infancy  but they're certainly not using it as of yet   in either police department in london of which  there are two the city of london police and the   metropolitan police i will elaborate further  later on on the tour the metropolitan police   he's beginning his post-mortem examination  and as he does he's removing her clothing   and he notices she's wearing nine layers of  clothing now remember i told you folks prostitutes   had no permanent address so everything they  own they carried on their person she's wearing   her entire wardrobe and this explains the blood  because as he's removing each layer he notices   the blood is coagulated between each layer of  her clothing and matted in the back of her head   but it wasn't until he removed that final  layer he discovered the extent of her barbaric   injuries jack the ripper ladies and gentlemen has  repeatedly plunged his knife into her genitalia   he has ripped it wide open to her breasts he  has pulled back her skin and in some sort of   misogynistic psychotic frenzy he has taken his  sharp blade and he has slashed and shredded her   intestines furiously but particular focus was  always always on the female reproductive organs   the very first murder of jack the  ripper took place on the 31st of august   1888 and i can assure you ladies and  gents he's only getting warmed up   that is when the greatest detective london has  ever seen the 14-year veteran of the metropolitan   police department is immediately assigned to  the case and i know you're all thinking that   that is somebody very famous but i'm afraid that  is not sherlock holmes he's a fictional character   detective chief inspector frederick abeline  of the metropolitan police department   immediately assigned to the case determined to  bring this butcher to justice been played by some   of the greatest actors of our generation actually  michael kane played him in the incredible 1988   jack the ripper series and of course he was played  by the devastatingly handsome mr johnny depp   in the movie from hell determined to bring this  butcher to justice he heads into the neighborhood   he retraces her steps he interviews every single  person that spoke to mary and nichols and he   cannot come up with one clue but he doesn't have  to wait too long because exactly to the day seven   days later jack the ripper strikes again this  time ladies and gentlemen he murders annie chapman   at 29 hanbury street that's our next stop tonight  on the tour so come with me to 29 hanbury street so of course on our way to the murder side of  ellie chapman just a brief mention of course   and the importance of this is the incredible brick  lane uh home to the asian community here in london   and brick lane of course in order to get to  annie chapman's murder site we've got to pass   50 delicious indian restaurants a great place to  eat when you're here in london now annie chapman   annie chapman was the eldest of jack the  ripper's victim she was 48 years of age   and he was a tough old broad and he'd been had a  rough whole life she had been married but again   her marriage fell apart but annie the week before  she died and he was suffering from tuberculosis   even when they did the post-mortem examination  on her body they suggested she wouldn't have had   any more than three weeks to live so if  jack the ripper hadn't brutally murdered her   the streets of white chapel were coming very close  and he had been in an argument these girls weren't   wallflowers might i have these girls were used  to streets on london they were all in gin and   physical altercations all the time but  annie had been in a fight the week before   over a bar of soap she had borrowed with another  prostitute in the area called eliza cooper   just to give you an example in that physical  altercation annie lost all her bottom teeth and   all her chest was bruised and he did a lot more  damage to eliza cooper so the point i'm making is   these girls were tough they were street wise and  well able to look after themselves as it were but   again annie had no money that night a horrendous  night here in the 8th of september 1888 tired and   sick and she was very sick that night she begged  her landlord to let her stay she pleaded with him   she even offered to pay him double he heartlessly  turfed her out on the street with no place to go   and he was spotted right around here on  hanbury street speaking to a gentleman   who's described as five foot seven five foot  eight pale complexion mustache deer stalker hat   long dusty overcoat and approximately five  five 5758 he was described as a shabby genteel   of foreign appearance a shabby genteel a shabbily  dress gentleman of foreign appearance now foreign   in 1888 victoria london referred to the jewish  community so here at 29 hambury street is where   she was spotted she was overheard saying him  saying to her will you to which you replied i will   she heads straight through this building through  the communal courtyard to the back courtyard at   the back now approximately 5 25 a.m a man called  albert kadash who lived upstairs at number 31   the building right next door he overhears he heads  into the back core chart he lives on the opposite   side of the fence now the fence between both core  charts was only five foot six he overhears her   screaming no but ladies and gentlemen this is  white chapel in the middle of the night there's   drunks there's overcrowding there's domestic  abuse he doesn't think someone's being murdered   he heads to work and passes christ church  spitterfields which i'll show you in a moment   and he records the time as 5 32 am in the meantime  at 5 40 a.m a man called john davis who lived   upstairs and had a very restless night's sleep  he comes downstairs and heads into the courtyard   and discovers the body of annie chapman ladies and  gentlemen her throat has been slit left to right   right to left this time he plunges his knife into  her anus and extends the rip the whole way around   her vaginal area and up to her breasts he pulls  back her skin he removes her intestines and he   throws them over her left hand shoulder jack the  ripper is also removed her uterus and part of her   bowel and removed and taken her uterus with it  annie chapman the eldest of jack the ripper's   victims of 48 years of age the first in daylight  and the first where he harvests the trophy   removing and taking within part of her bowel her  uterus right at the back of 29 hanbury street   so we've had two murders so far folks 31st of  august 1888 marianne nichols and the 8th of   september 1888 annie chapman all is quiet for  nearly three whole weeks when on the 30th of   september jack the ripper doesn't strike once in  a night he strikes twice what is now known as the   infamous double event he starts his murderous  rampage with the swedish prostitute elizabeth   streit now we're going to head a little further  into the city of london but for right now what   i want to do is show you around white chapel  today but what was also white chapel in 1888   including one of the most beautiful 19th century  streets in britain atmospheric and it's been   used for several movies actually i've seen them  filming a lot of movies over the years here the   suffragette movie with kerry mulligan and meryl  streep in fact meryl streep is on the roof of one   of these buildings inciting the girls towards  violence um luther the show i've seen periodic   dramas being filmed down here but one of the most  beautiful 19th century streets in britain now   these houses regularly go for now today anything  from 5 to 12 million but not the case in 1888 so not only are we standing in one of the most  beautiful 19th century streets in britain we were   also standing in one of the most multiculturally  diverse neighborhoods in the entire of london   and it's important to note that mass migration  occurred here over 2 000 years ago it began   very shortly we'll be heading into the  boundaries of what is called the city   of london at the city of london was established  by the romans 2 000 years ago and if you're   interested in more about the city of london of  course please like and subscribe and we will   give you a link towards the city of london tour  where i bring you through the nooks and crannies   of the 2 000 year old ancient city but the romans  were the first to arrive establishing the city of   london and they built a huge roman wall around  that city the next wave of migration came in   the 1700s and that of course was the french  huguenots and the french huguenots came here   fleeing persecution in catholic france  the safe haven here in protestant england   they brought with them the silk weaving industry  an incredible industry but of course with the   opening of the ports and the industrial revolution  and the expansion of the ports cheaper textiles   became more freely available from asia and that's  when the huguenots left but even to this day   you'll see the influence of the huguenots in the  french-style huguenot architecture of the street   even the name of the street is you'll see yourself  fournier street the next massive wave of migration   of course was the 1800s and that's when the jewish  community arrived it is estimated there was up to   3 000 jewish people living in the center of white  chapel in 1888 and of course they were fleeing   their own persecution all over mainland europe  and cyrus russia my own people came with them   as well in the 1800s the irish they were fleeing  their own horrendous poverty in ireland and they   were getting on what were known as feminine death  ships three weeks crossings to the united states   of america these ships were rife with disease like  dysentery scurvy um well plague etc and a lot of   people wouldn't survive the journey so they got  off the the ports and the coastal towns of britain   1970s saw another massive wave of migration and  that was the bangladeshis the bangladeshis arrived   here to london and you just saw the incredible  brick lane with over 60 indian restaurants in   the wonderful asian community now the final wave  of migration to the area came most recently ladies   and gents and that of course was the hipsters and  they arrived with quinoa and coffee and avocados   the point i'm making is you also had a massive  boiling pot of racial tension in the area and that   will play a huge part later on as anti-semitism  did in the jack the ripper investigation   but for right now where we're standing is possibly  one of the most historic parts of the jack the   ripper tour you were personally standing i am  presley standing and you're presently looking   at three of the exact buildings that jack the  ripper would have seen directly behind you here   this building you see here now a relatively new  build but right in the center of that building   was the street here in london called dorset street  ran straight through the middle of this building   that was the most dangerous street in london  making it quite possibly at the time the most   dangerous street in the united kingdom  if you walk down dorset street at night   time you certainly didn't come out with your  possessions you were lucky if you came out alive   that was the address ladies and gents of the  final victim of jack the ripper mary jane kelly   she lived at 13 miller's court on dorset street  so what fascinates me is when jack the ripper   walked out of that crime scene that morning  after mutilating her beyond all recognition   he would have seen the exact same  three buildings we are standing under   right now jack the ripper would have seen christ  church spitterfields this wonderful nicholas   hawkmoor church there's been a church on this site  since 1700s that is how the people of white chapel   told the time including albert kavash on his way  to work after hearing annie chapman screaming no   they he would have seen spider fields  market right behind you ladies and gentlemen   there's been a market on this site since the  reign of king charles ii the 1600s that particular   building was opened in 1887 by queen victoria  one year before the jack the ripper murders   and more importantly and the most  integral part of this investigation   the ten bells pub it's not well reputedly it  wouldn't have been uncommon for all five of jack   the ripper's victims most likely would have drank  in the pub all these girls lived together locally   would have drank in the same haunts along the way  so it wouldn't have been uncommon for these girls   quite possibly to have known each other but  more importantly mary jane kelly the final   victim of jack the ripper was drinking in  that pot the night she was brutally murdered   right underneath this building here when you're  here in person yourself there is no better place   to further your jack the ripper experience walking  in there is like transporting you back in time   with the exact same interior as it had in 1888  can't guarantee you've got two pine pounds of two   pound pints of gin anymore but the last worth a  visit when you're here so we're going to take the   tour on next i want to show you an example of a  workhouse but you don't want to miss very shortly   we're coming up on the most infamous night in  jack the ripper history the infamous double event so this is what was called a workhouse and this  was the end of the road you had no place else   to go remember i told you about the people with  the potential to earn four pets well what about   the people with no earning potential and they  were there in their thousands you had orphaned   children on these streets abandoned by parents who  couldn't afford to feed them living in pickpocket   and gangs with no place to go where do they go you  shove them in here go ahead what about the elderly   that survived the lifespan they can't turn a trick  they can't do 16 hours of hard day's manual labor   where did they go they were shoved in here or  more dangerously what about the mentally ill   there was no such thing as medication or help for  the mentally ill you are some very dangerously   sick criminally insane people on these streets  with no medication and no help they too were   shoved in here the women's entrance was here and  the men's entrance we'll show you in a moment was   on the other side two and three hundred women  and children and i queued up on each entrance   if the beds were gone you were offered a  rope that was tied around your waist and   attached to the wall and you slept hanging  on where we believe the term hangars on   came from if the beds were gone rats and mice  ran freely insects up the wall disease was rife   women and children all crammed into the same  area you were offered a bowl of gruel and   a piece of bread so rock hard it had to be  soaked in boiling water for in order for you   to even take a bite and for the privilege of this  five-star accommodation you had 16 hours of hard   days manual labor breaking rock and picking rope  and something to do with the sorting of matches   but if i can turn any positives from all these  negatives remember i told you about the publicity   people all over the world folks who are reading  about jack the ripper the new york times reported   daily the sun newspaper here in london again as i  mentioned earlier on reported that jack the ripper   was an escaped baboon but more importantly one  million newspapers a day were being printed about   jack the ripper people started to take notice  they started to question why in the richest   largest city in the world were there people living  in these conditions massive social reform came   about as a result of the deaths of these girls so  i genuinely like you to think these girls didn't   die in vain they changed the course of history for  the better for future generations the bernardo's   children's trust came in they picked up children  off the streets to send them to australia new   zealand for better lives the church of england the  catholic church the samaritans all got involved   so if you can turn any positive that was  one good thing to come from these murders   but right now we're gonna head into the city of  london because right now we're going to walk down   because i want to start what was the most infamous  two murders in the jack the ripper investigation   this was the double event but if we have any  harry potter fans on the tour now this is quite   controversial i get a lot of criticism about this  from harry potter guides 50 say this is based on   the area i'm about to tell you and 50 say  it's not but as far as i'm concerned not   a huge harry potter fan i'm afraid i don't know  much about him not that i'm a fan but if you are   interested in harry potter see our expert guide  uh he did his harry potter here with free tours   apparently they say this was the inspiration  for diagon alley in the harry potter movies so we've had two murders so far 31st of august  1888 and the 8th of september 1888 all is quiet   for nearly three whole weeks when on the 30th  of september jack the ripper doesn't strike   once in a night he strikes twice in what is now  known as the infamous double event in under 45   minutes he has brutally murdered two girls in  the east end the significant point about this   investigation however is there were two police  forces in london that still exists to this day   the city of london police and the metropolitan  police the city of london are responsible for   the city of london the ancient city of london  which is only 1.1 square mile the metropolitan   police responsible for the 31 boroughs outside  the significant part of this investigation   is we are very shortly entering into the  city of london and the way we know this   is right now i am in the metropolitan police  department district but these pillars these red   white and black and just a simple step right  through here i am now in the city of london   precinct very significant later on and i'll  get further into detail with that coming up   shortly but for right now i want to talk about  elizabeth streit not the exact murder side of   elizabeth stride elizabeth stride was murdered in  the metropolitan district but i'll improvise right   now elizabeth stride the only non-english victim  of jack the ripper came from gothenburg in sweden   moved here at 22 she married a local chap named  john stride they're reasonably happy had a coffee   shop but of course he dies suddenly at a very  young age and like everything else she's left   with nothing no capital no gates she's working the  streets in white chapel but she's what we call an   unfortunate she had a lot of part-time work so she  very rarely worked the streets but for whatever   reason that night it's a saturday night she is  working particularly nasty london night gale   force winds hail rain a horrendous evening the key  to this story is a russian jewish man named louis   dean schutz he had a pub the pub was called  the international work men's educational club   he ran the pub with his wife he lived above  the pub with his wife but on the weekends   he sold costume jewelry at market stalls  all around london he's returning that night   on his horse and cart now picture the scenario  the pub is on the right and between two buildings   there's a stable here there's a laneway back to  the stables behind the pub called dufffield's yard   he heads in with his horse on a loose rain halfway  through all of a sudden the horse just stops   suddenly in its tracks louie diem shots his  puzzle the horse has made this journey a million   times before so in the pitch dark he descends the  carriage and using his whip he feels around for an   obstruction and of course he feels a large mass  or bundle so he bends down and strikes a match   immediately in the gusty conditions that  match blows out but not before he discovers   there's a body of a woman in the alleyway he said  on the police report he thought it was his wife   in a drunken stupor as he had picked  her up from there drunk on jinn   so many times before so still  thinking he's dealing with his wife   he heads leaves the alleyway he heads into  the pub to retrieve his old lantern to come   back and pick up his drunk wife he walks  into the pub and the first person he sees   his wife he returns to the scene of the crime  and he discovers the body of elizabeth stride   she has only one slit on her neck no other market  her body is still warm she has to have just taken   her last breath this begs us to believe that if  in fact instead louis deanches had lit that match   directly in front of him he would have been  looking directly into the eyes of jack the ripper   we believe jack the ripper was  disturbed mid-murder in that alleyway   and when louis diem schultz leaves  that alleyway gives jack the ripper   the vital seconds he needs to escape but now  we have a very serious problem on our hands   you have a frenzied psychopath with a brutal loss  for mutilation of courses and removing of organs   that has not been satisfied jack the  ripper satisfies that lust 45 minutes later   when he brutally mutilates catherine eddos at our  next stop tonight at the infamous mitre square it was virtually impossible to catch a killer in  1888 but the one thing that the police agreed on   was prostitution was illegal however they  weren't completely unreasonable they knew   this was the only source of income for women in  this part of town so they agreed two rules with   the prostitutes number one the prostitute  could not loiter she couldn't stand in the   one position for a long period of time she  had to keep moving at all times number two   the prostitute could not approach a customer  the customer would have to approach her   for that reason ladies and gents do you see  this magnificent church excuse the traffic same boat off without all gay church up to 200  prostitutes a night continuously circled that   church that's where men came to solicit the trade  of prostitutes it's where jack the ripper goes   next because it's the last known sighting of  the fourth victim of jack the ripper catherine   eddos so there was an eyewitness report of who we  suspect jack the ripper to be right at the top of   this passage so this is saint james's passage now  but in 1888 this was church passage so we suspect   that after the murder of elizabeth stride jack the  ripper came straight to the prostitute's church   picked up caternedos was spotted speaking to  her here no doubt negotiating what they called   at the time the four pence knee trembler at the  top of that passageway and not 15 minutes later   her brutally mutilated body was found right  down here in this side corner of the infamous   mitre square now this is a recent dedication that  was put up to catherine edo's here at mitre square   but of course we will be providing images of  these murders so this is the infamous mitre   square now mitre square in 1888 victorian  london was warehouses full of valuable goods   in a neighborhood full of scavengers and thieves  this square was required police presence every 15   minutes the police officer on duty that evening  if he wasn't through here on the 15 minutes every   15 minutes he was regularly spot checked by his  chief inspector he would be fired on the spot that   police officer that evening was pc edmund watkins  he had been around here at one 30 a.m shining his   torch in every corner with nothing to report  there's an eyewitness reporter who we suspect   jack the ripper to be speaking to catherine eddos  at the top of that passageway at 1 35 a.m now we   all have this kind of a hollywood idea folks  of what we suspect jack the ripper looked like   and it's due in part down to the 1929 iconic image  of alfred hitchcock let me see if i get this right   six foot two long black flowing cape deerstalker  hat like sherlock holmes cane and fog are always   around the ankles love that bit the fog around  the ankles not the case again this gentleman was   described as five foot seven five foot eight late  twenties early thirties pale complexion mustache   stocky build not fat more stocky and chubby he  was wearing a peak cap a red neckerchief around   his neck and an oversized salt and pepper coat  gray and white coat overall giving the appearance   of an international sailor he was spotted  speaking to catherine letters at 1 35 am pc   watkins had been around here at 1 30 a.m and when  pc watkins returned to meister square at 1 45 a.m   he would have found the brutally mutilated body  of catherine eddos right behind these gates here   jack the ripper has taken his  barbaric fury out on catherine   he starts again with her neck left to right right  to left this time he removes two triangular pieces   of flesh from her cheeks the top of her nose the  tips of her ears he plunges his knife into her   genitalia extending his rip above her breasts  he pulls back her skin he removes her entrails   and throws him over the left hand shoulder jack  the ripper is removed and taken with him part   of her bowel and this time jack the ripper has  removed and taken with him my apologies he'd taken   part of her uterus and this time he's removed and  taken with him her kidney now we all have some   sort of a reasonable idea as to where our kidney  is located right in our lower backs but when jack   that when dr baxter phillips examined her body  he noticed that jack the ripper has done this   in an estimated 12 to 15 minutes in the pitch dark  with police presence every 15 minutes in public   around here without damaging any other internal  organ in the process dr baxter phillips was the   very first doctor to suggest that jack the ripper  had to have some surgical or anatomical knowledge   however these streets are alive in 1888 victorian  london at nighttime there is mass overcrowding   people everywhere on the streets and you have a  now a psychotic murderer covered in blood he has   to be he's murdered twice in under 49 five minutes  he's covered in blood he's carrying a kidney   you see a man coming towards you in the middle  of white chapel at nighttime covered in blood   would you find that unusual some would  say immediately yes but not the case not   if you were a butcher butchers came home covered  in good blood every night of the week in white   chapel folks there was even buckets of water  around the corner of the streets so men could   wash their hands of animal blood also did you  know the anatomy of a pig is very similar to   the anatomy of a human being was jack the ripper  or butcher could jack the ripper been a barber   you've all heard of the demon barber of sweeney  todd on fleet street a fictional character   but barbers in 1888 victorian london  were members of the surgical guild   they were legally allowed to perform minor  surgical procedures there was no money for   nhs or first surgery gentlemen you needed your  mustache trim and your appendix out hey hey two   for one of the barbers okay slight exaggeration  he could remove your wisdom teeth it could stitch   you up after a bar fight and anaesthetic  ladies and gents in 1888 victorian london   was a shot of whiskey so i said  they should come to ireland we're   ready for surgery all the time was jack the  ripper or barber we don't know but what we do know   is exactly where jack the ripper went next  there's very few clues in the jack the ripper   investigation but one hour later pc alfred long  of the metropolitan police department on his beat   was passing the wentworth model dwelling building  on gullston street as he was passing he discovered   a triangular bloody piece of catherine eddo's  apron written in red chalk up on the wall above   that piece of apron where the jews are the men who  will not be blamed for nothing spelt j j-u-w-e-s   the jews are the men who will not be blamed for  nothing now the hell of all that i can tell you   about it i'm afraid because there's nothing  that anybody knows it's known as the famous   non-clue but we're going to discuss it and  we'll discuss the conspiracy surrounding it   so effectively right now ladies and gents we are  walking the exact footsteps of jack the ripper jack the ripper ladies and gentlemen was in  that building this is the wentworth model   dwelling building on ghoulson street the reason  we know this is pc alfred law of the metropolitan   police department was walking right past this  main entrance which should have been wide open   and he found a triangular piece of bloodied  apron of catherine edo's on the floor written   in red chalk above that piece of vape and up on  the wall where the jews are the men who will not   be blamed for nothing spell j-u-w-e-s the jews  are the men who will not be blamed for nothing detective chief inspector abella and commissioner  charles warren of the metropolitan police   department the commissioner arrived to the crime  scene and when commissioner charles warren upon   inspection of the jews of the men who will not be  blamed for not nothing immediately instructed the   jews of the men be rubbed off the wall in modern  day terms ladies and gentlemen that is what you   would call tampering with evidence why did he do  it some people say he suggested he didn't want   any more anti-semitic writing in the neighborhood  this area was predominantly jewish that building   was a jewish tenement petticoat lane market an  hour later would have been set up along here   predominantly jewish vendors at the market and  he was afraid of any more anti-semitic writing   tensions were so high in the neighborhood at the  time but the people wouldn't accept it people   were furious he actually lost his job three  weeks later they said it was a cover-up the   city of london police are now involved in the  investigation they haven't even had a chance   to photograph it or take some evidence of it but  what does it all mean what is it all about i mean   frankly we have no categoric proof that jack the  ripper even wrote this but there's been several   conspiracy theories of the over the years some  suggest to that jack the ripper was illiterate   was he illiterate with the wrong spelling or was  jack the ripper directly translating from his own   language into english there's no double negative  grammatically that sentence is constructed all   wrong there is no domain um double negative  in an english language sentence but there are   double negatives in yiddish and there are double  negatives in polish somebody even suggested it   was a freemason reference whatever what we do  know is jack the ripper was in this building   now when the fbi profiled jack the ripper they  suggested that jack the ripper would have lived   in the locality there was no way he could have  negotiated the streets of london so quickly in the   pitch dark without knowing exactly where he was  going did jack the ripper live in this building   we know he swiped the blade of his knife  and we also know he wiped his hands   on that piece of apron so effectively all we can  positively tell you was he came to this building quick recap 31st of august 1888 the autumn of  terror begins jack the ripper strikes for the   very first time he murders mary and nichols the  double rip of the neck the vaginal laceration to   the breast and the slashing of her intestines  furiously seven days later he strikes again   he murders annie chapman the eldest of his victims  of 48 years of age the first in daylight her   body discovered at 5 40 and the first where he  harvests a trophy removing and taking with him   part of her bowel her uterus and also removing  leaving her personal effects in front of her   three weeks later not another until the  double event elizabeth stride we suspect   interrupted and 45 minutes later the brutal  mutilation of catherine eders at miter square   not one more word from jack the ripper for nearly  six whole weeks 9th of november traditionally here   in london folks is lord mayor's day the new lord  mayor of london a ceremonial post has paraded past   the wonderful buildings in the city saint  paul's cathedral has his own ceremonial parade   all the kings the queens horses and all the  king's men will arrive the lords the ladies   the higher up echelon members of society will  be invited doesn't affect the people of white   chapel they're not invited to lord mayor's  day but it's a great excuse to have a party   they've had enough folks their whole world is  upside down as if their day-to-day wasn't hard   enough every single day they lived in paralyzing  fear of jack the ripper they didn't know who he   was going to strike next every corner they  took they knew he'd be there so they need   something to celebrate remember that they're alive  so they're having a street party a street fair   the bunting is going up on the streets they're  brewing the gin they're handing out the free bread   when on the morning of the 9th november 1888  the discovery of the body of mary jane kelly   all of jack the ripper's victims were between  38 and 48. mary jane kelly was 25 years of age   he mutilated her beyond all recognition the only  way she could be identified was by the clothing   she was wearing the night before still described  to this day by the fbi as one of the most complex   crime scenes in history was also the very first  forensic crime scene photograph in history and why   well we all know he's escalating ladies and  gents but this was the first and only murder   indoors jack the ripper had all the time in the  world to create his masterpiece and fulfill his   fantasies without fear of getting caught 9th  november 1888 the final victim of jack the rift   mary jane kelly now mary jane kelly the final  victim of jack the ripper was an irish girl from   county limerick she had a boyfriend his name was  joseph barnett they were on one week they were off   the next they had a rather tumultuous relationship  he occasionally shared the accommodation with her   at 13 miller's court we estimate 13 miller's court  to be inside the glass window here just a little   bit around there where the elevator was now they  have outlined what was dorset street remember i   explained this to you earlier on that ran through  the building the most dangerous street in london   but mary jane and joseph barnett he wasn't around  that week they'd had a rather tumultuous argument   the week before a pane of glass had been broken  at the side of her building she had stuffed it   with newspapers and rags to keep out the cold mary  jane was drinking that night in the ten bells pub   she was spotted speaking to a gentleman who  she brought back here to 13 miller's court   she was heard singing an irish lullaby at 2  am in the morning she was heard singing again   at 3 a.m in the morning mary jane was 29 shillings  in arrears in rent to a man called john mccarthy   a horrible man that she owed over six weeks rent  to that morning john mccarthy sent his muscle   an ex-military member the name of thomas boyer  around to her address to retrieve the 29 shilling   she owed he knew she wouldn't have 29 shillings  but he was sent to get whatever he could by any   means necessary he's banging on the door there's  no response he keeps it banging and banging   i'll catch her hiding i know about that  broken window he heads around to the side   of the building he pushes in the rags he looks  inside and his knees buckle trembling in terror   the first policeman on the scene refuses to enter  the crime scene as does the second policeman   refuse to enter the third bangs down the door and  enters the crime scene he slips on the blood jack   the ripper has mutilated mary jane kelly beyond  recognition he's almost entirely severed her head   she's lying on the bed her face is staring at that  window as they were looking in he has removed both   of her breasts one is on the side table one is  found under what's left of her thigh a massive   gouge of flesh has been removed from her thigh and  placed on the inside windowsill he cuts her entire   body in two removes her intestines and hangs them  like trophies on picture frames all over the room   her heart is missing from the crime scene it has  never ever been recovered her lungs her uterus and   her kidneys are found in various parts of the room  and he's not done yet this time he takes his blade   to her skin and he almost entirely skins her body  he even folds that skin in neat piles and places   it beside the spleen on the side table that crime  scene photograph ladies and gentlemen took place   right here in the east end the first forensic  crime scene photograph in history now for the   faint-hearted ladies in general we will be showing  you an image of that crime scene so if you have   younger children just a little disclaimer  please let them know we will be showing it   coming up so beware if you are squeamish it's  not for the faint-hearted so who was jack the   ripper ladies and gentlemen there's been over  300 suspects of the jack the ripper investigation   people are investigating this case since 1888 and  they are still investigating today and they will   be in another 100 years the mystery of jack the  ripper is the draw let's talk about a few of the   suspects and of course i have my own opinion i am  not a reporologist these are all speculations on   my part as they are and everybody else's the idea  behind jack the ripper is discovering who he is   now over 300 suspects you could narrow down  to the 10 most popular i'll just give you   a briefing of some of the more few and some  who i would veer towards firstly aaron polish   paranoid schizophrenic ex butcher lived in  white chapel fits the physical description   of jack the ripper he's in the top three of every  ripperologist in the world spent most of his life   after the jack the ripper investigations  in an asylum had been arrested for a sexual   assault against his own sister he will always  be on the lips of every ripperologist aaron   kozminski montgomery ex-school teacher ex-banker  ex-barrister lived in white chapel again for the   physical and description of jack the ripper  his own family swore he was jack the ripper   he committed suicide not long after the ripper  murders was found floating on the river thames   he's also on the list walter sickert the very  famous crime author patricia cornwell is obsessed   with walter sickert she's invested two million  pounds of her own money in this investigation   she's convinced it's walter's an impressionist  artist who lived in both camden and white chapel   was known for his depiction of violent scenes  against women in art in particular one which was   very similar to the crime scene of mary jane kelly  he comes up a lot but he's also coming up in the   royal conspiracy now the royal conspiracy centers  around prince albert victor duke of klam the   grandson of queen victoria same succession to the  throne in 1888 as prince william is to this day   and he loved his prostitutes and more importantly  he loved the brothels here in my chapel   it is said he frequented these brothels on a  lot of occasions he was known to the girls he   used to dress in disguise as a commoner  peaked hat and all queen victoria finds   out about these extracurricular activities  she is furious she sends them back down here   to work as an apprentice artist under walter  sickert keep an eye on him keep him away from   these people distract him teach him about  the renaissance humanity's a reformation   but whilst he's here that backfires because  they say he fell in love with the prostitute   and she falls pregnant with the future king or  queen of great britain a prostitute mother from   white chapel queen victoria is furious she sends a  royal surgeon so william gull into the streets of   white chapel to fix the problem william goal was  73 years of age at the time he had suffered a very   debilitating stroke two years prior i personally  don't think this possible i'll come back to that   again when i speak about the fbi profile it  is said william girl comes into the streets   of white chapel he finds the pregnant prostitute  and he commits her to an asylum she's never heard   from again nor is the royal baby but they also  say one girl finds out about the royal baby   and that girl is mary jane kelly the fifth victim  of jack the ripper and she tells her four friends   marianne nichols annie chapman elizabeth stride  and catherine eddos it is said all five girls had   a um well they had a royal plot a plot to bribe  the royal family about the royal baby it is also   said he entices girls into a royal carriage using  poison grapes laced with opium and murders them in   a royal carriage and that bit forensically  i can tell you is nonsense and here's why   the fbi profile jack the ripper as being a  white male late 20s early 30s would have lived   in white chapel there was no way he could  negotiate the streets of london so quickly   in the pitch start between murders  without knowing exactly where he was going   would have been full-time employed monday to  friday all the murders took place on the weekends   what possibly have been known to these girls would  have been perceived as a loner would have suffered   from some form of impediment whether it be speech  or limp or impotency something he couldn't get   over he would have suffered from some form of a  sexual imbue abuse in his background involving   a close female relative her mother but they  also suggested that those girls were murdered   exactly where they were found  and not in any royal carriage   they also suggested he would have been picked  up once if not twice for the jack the ripper   investigation will be on the police's radar  for that reason i believe that walter sicker   couldn't possibly be jack the ripper because no  royal carriage involved is one of the reasons   and also his age and the physicality of the crime  personally i believe that jack the ripper and   this is my suggestion i'm not saying he is  jack the ripper but i would lean towards is   probably a better way of saying is a man called  francis tumblet francis tumbled was a fantasist   lived in white chapel for a period of time was  known to the girls he went by the title dr francis   tumbled never studied medicine in his life but  he was practicing medicine he'd been arrested   for performing illegal abortions and procuring  of illegal drugs lived and why chapel fit the   physical description tumbled they found  sexual abuse involving his own mother   in his background the problem with tumbled was he  was arrested two nights before the murder of mary   jane kelly in liverpool but what were known at the  time as gross indecency acts they translate today   as homosexual acts now he doesn't fit the  profile because a homosexual serial killer   is more inclined to kill men and not women however  years later they found a wife he had been married   for a short period of time and they had found out  that his marriage had fallen apart as a result   of him using prostitutes the morning that mary  jane kelly's body was found the metropolitan   police immediately issued a warrant for tumbled's  arrest they were desperate to talk to tumbled that   day he fled the country and he left on that very  day and one detective followed him and never left   his side to the day he died there was a similar  murder when he was in new york of a prostitute   the exact same rip of the neck and  the vaginal laceration to the breast   he had a dinner party in his apartment and at  that dinner party an army general that attended   immediately rang the police after to say  that tumbled he had probably displayed   the collection of uteruses he so casually kept  in jam jars of alcohol all over his apartment   the british government attempted to extradite  him the us government denied it the extradition   attempt because for lack of sufficient  evidence and they were perfectly right   because there was no forensic proof or category  proof that tumbly was jack the ripper and   eventually tumbled he died was tumbly jack the  ripper we will never know but ladies and gentlemen   research is available on so many sites on this  investigation this was my interpretation of jack   the ripper of course not everybody will agree with  my idea of jack the ripper not everybody can agree   on who i suggested was jack the ripper and  that's the beauty of this investigation   please comment ladies and gentlemen share your  any questions you may have with us and we'll   attempt to answer them but for right now  we're going to finish up the tour tonight   right here at the center and right beside the  murder of mary jane kelly may these ladies rest   in peace and thank you very much for joining me  this evening we hope you enjoyed the tour if you   did please give 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