Montague Druitt, a barrister with knowledge of human anatomy. The theories surrounding his identity vary from a covert Masonic plot to a member of the royal family. Jack the Ripper, whoever he was, has been the subject of hundreds of books and articles. The law’s failure to identify the killer led to such an outcry that both the home secretary and London police commissioner resigned in disgrace. Serial murder was a relatively new phenomenon and the attacks were highly publicized.
One victim’s kidney was even mailed to the police, along with a series of taunting notes penned by someone calling himself Jack the Ripper. Between August 7 and November 10 of that year, five women were killed in the Whitechapel district of London’s East End, their throats slashed and their bodies mutilated in a way that indicated they all met their fates at the hands of the same person.
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