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On Tuesday, April 3rd, 1888, a series of brutal and vicious killings started happening in London and continued through November of 1891.

During this time, a total of 10 murders of similar nature occurred within the Eastand neighborhoods of Whitechabble and Spittelfields, an area about one square mile.

The victims were mostly middle-aged women, alcoholics, down on their luck types. They were divorced, widowed or unmarried and supplemented any meager work they could find, with prostitution, which was not considered a crime in those days.

They were called unfortonates, which was another name to describe women who sold themselves for very little money or even a loaf of stale bread.

It was suspected that their killer was approached by them as a possible client. Once he had them alone, he slashed their throats, then mutilated their bodies.

Mostly, he attacked their breasts and pelvic area. The killer's hunting grounds were the gritty streets of the city's Eastand.

However, with each new victim, the fear he generated spread to all of London across Europe and even to America.

Soon after the murder started, the alleged killer wrote a letter in redding to the Central News Agency. The letter was signed, Jack the Ripper, and from there, a media sensation was born.

London was gripped with fear and outrage, an emerging mass media, which we now know in modern day as the tabloids, fed into this fear with sensationalized coverage.

Headlines such as, how could this killer slaughter these women and escape in such crowded streets, continued to stoke people's fears?

As more victims turned up dead, the London papers mock the police for their lack of progress. The frustrated public demanded the police do more to apprehend the predator.

Even Queen Victoria expressed disappointment that the killer had not been caught.

To this day, the killer's identity and these crimes remain one of the most infamous, unsolved true crime mysteries of all time.

His murders are the basis for hundreds of books, movies, and even true crime podcasts. Imagine that.

So what is the truth about Jack the Ripper? Though we will probably never be able to say for certain, I have my own theories on this case, and that is what we will be talking about today.

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