Jack the Ripper: Murder Scenes: Real Dialogue and Photos

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The use of this technology to try to solve a murder from the late 1800s does beg the question, though: were there scientific or forensic methods that police could use at the time to solve the Whitechapel murders?

They considered using bloodhounds, and Sir Charles Warren did summon a pair of trained bloodhounds to be used at the crime scene. For instance, a blood-smeared cloth was found in the doorway of 108-119 Wentworth Dwellings in Goulston Street, Whitechapel. on August 31st 1888, the body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Nichols, was found at around 3.

The identity of Jack the Ripper is a topic that has fascinated people for centuries since we don’t know who he was still to this day. In addition to showing you the sites as they were at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders, the photo archive brings you up to date by showing you the locations (at least those that have survived) as they are today. According to an eyewitness, police officer William Smith, the two were standing where Stride would be found dead. He pounded on the door, then went around to peer through a window that Mary had broken about a week before.

In fact, police assumed that Jack the Ripper had to flee Berner Street on September 30th before he was finished violating Elizabeth Stride's remains because he was " interrupted" by a passerby. Our tour continues with a visit to Hanbury Street where, at 6am on the 8th September 1888, the body of victim number two, Annie Chapman, was found in the backyard of number 29. Many of the victims were sex workers, or prostitutes, who likely met their fateful end while soliciting work. Everyone posits a surgeon as a likely identity for Jack the Ripper, but he could easily have been a slaughterhouse worker, a butcher, a barber, a veterinarian—all also skilled with a knife. on the 30th of September, 1888, PC Watkins patrolled his beat into Mitre Square, in the City of London, and found the body of Catherine Eddowes, the second victim of the night.There coffin-sized mattresses of urine-soaked, rodent-infested straw and rags were lined up on the floor with separate areas for men, women or married couples. Police Constable John Neil arrived on the scene and immediately saw how close to decapitated she was. It’s where the ladies of the night would go and ply their trade, and the City police wouldn’t arrest them for it. Coroner Baxter allowed him to wait to present the remaining evidence a few days later, and even then several newspapers refused to print all the details.