Whitechapel murders

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Eleven women were murdered in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London between 3 April 1888 and 13 February 1891. At various points, some or all of these unsolved murders have been ascribed to the notorious unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. Most, if not all, of the eleven victims – Emma Elizabeth Smith, Martha Tabram, Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, Rose Mylett, Alice McKenzie, Frances Coles, and an unidentified woman – were engaged in prostitution. Smith was sexually assaulted and robbed by a gang. Tabram was stabbed 39 times. Nichols, Chapman, Stride, Eddowes, Kelly, McKenzie, and Coles had their throats cut. Eddowes and Stride were murdered on the same night, within approximately an hour and less than 1 mi (1,600 m) apart; their murders are known as the "double event", after a phrase in a postcard sent to the press by someone claiming to be the Ripper. The bodies of Nichols...

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