Three things made the White Chippell murders a media sensation overnight. Two murders

back to back and ensuing panic and a letter which gave this mysterious blood-soaked slayer

a name. Jack the Ripper. Dub the Soho murders with a third woman

fan strangled. Soho had become a byword for terror with his victims so globally famous only

their nicknames were needed. Fifi Marie and now Lair.

syndicated worldwide on the 13th September 1936. Every week was one of many articles that fueled

the flames of panic and mystery. It read like Jack the Ripper. This shadowy slayer of the girls

of London's dim byways strikes with an insane but deadly panic leaving no clues to the famous

man catchers. Of those who fell prey to him all were women and all of the dubious class.

Jack the Ripper threw such a shiver of fear of a White Chippell. The women were afraid to go out at

night. The same is true today of the women in Soho. With no witnesses no clues and no

concrete evidence to convict separate suspects to these identical murders. Let alone a serial

strangler who stalked Soho's city streets. This mystery would spawn a myth and with a third

murder fueling a panic the press would give him a name the Soho Strangler.

Unlike the others the murder of Dutch Lair would mark a shift in the killer's motive

but by making this man into a monster once again the victim would be forgotten.

Lair's life was a fractured chaotic mess.

When asked her own mother could not remember the date of her own child's birth

just that she was born in 1912 at East Ham in Firmary in East London.

Like so many women constants may hind as a birth certificate states had many names for many

legitimate and illegitimate reasons. With three different spellings of her surname a married

name and combined with several first names constants may and even layer she had eight known aliases.

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