The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to speculation that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge.
Their throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was also called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron.Īttacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved women working as prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London. Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888. Whitechapel and Spitalfields, London, England (5 canonical)
Unknown (possibly sexual sadism and/or rage)
