Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of the East End of London, in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous jou
"With the Vigilance Committee in the East End: A Suspicious Character" from The Illustrated London News, 13 October 1888
Women and children congregate in front of one of the Whitechapel common lodging-houses close to where Jack the Ripper murdered two of his victims.
The sites of the first seven Whitechapel murders – Osborn Street (centre right), George Yard (centre left), Hanbury Street (top), Buck's Row (far right), Berner Street (bottom right), Mitre Square (bottom left), and Dorset Street (middle left)
29 Hanbury Street. The door through which Annie Chapman and her murderer walked to the yard where her body was discovered is beneath the numerals of the property sign.
Mary Jane Kelly, also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary and Black Mary, is widely believed by scholars to have been the final victim of the unidentified serial killer Jack th
Jack the Ripper
…to connect all the killings conclusively to the 1888 murders. Five victims – Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly – are known as the "canonical five", and their murders between 31 August and 9 November 1888 are often considered the most likely to be linked. The…
24 November 1888 Penny Illustrated Paper illustration of Kelly
17 November 1888 Illustrated Police News illustration of Mary Jane Kelly
The passageway leading to Miller's Court, Spitalfields
13 Miller's Court. The murder of Mary Jane Kelly occurred within this single room on 9 November 1888.