Jack the Ripper

This is definatly not a man for the week and trembly.
I was reading this book yesterday, Do Not Open, and there was this part about Jack the Ripper. Now me, of course I looked it up on the web. Here's his story.

He was a large murderer in the fall of 1888. He killed many women, 5 of them are definatly his doing. They never caught the man who went by the name of "Jack the Ripper". He wrote letters, scribbled on a wall, and killed, killed, killed women. Here are the five proven, also known as the Canonical Five.

• Mary Ann Nichols, she was killed Friday 31 August 1888 by extremly severe cuts in her neck that were absoulutly deep. Quote: the lower part of the abdomen was partly ripped open by a deep, jagged wound, and there also were several incisions running across the abdomen, and three or four similar cuts on the right side caused by the same knife used violently and downwards.
• Annie Chapman, she was killed Saturday 8 September 1888. Quote:Like Mary Ann Nichols's, her throat was severed by two cuts, one deeper than the other. The abdomen was ripped entirely open and her uterus was removed.
• Elizabeth Stride, she was killed Sunday 30 September 1888 by Quote:There was one clear-cut incision on the neck; the cause of death was massive blood loss from the nearly severed main artery on the left side. The cut through the tissues on the right side was more superficial, and tapered off below the right jaw.
• Catherine Eddowes, she was killed the same day as Elizabeth Stride. Quote:The throat was, as in the former two cases, severed by two cuts; the abdomen was ripped open by a long, deep, jagged wound. The left kidney and the major part of the uterus had been removed.
• Mary Jane Kelly, she was killed Friday 9 November 1888. Quote:Her throat had been severed down to the spine, and her abdomen virtually emptied of its organs. Her heart was missing.

There were others that might have been affected by Jack the Ripper, but the are not definate.

After the murders of Stride and Eddowes, they were searching and found a bloodstained piece of apron that had belonged to Eddowes. There was writing on the wall above where the apron was found that, said in white chalk, read: "The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing."

There were three letters that were all very scary. I am quoting these letters.

• The "Dear Boss" letter, dated 25 September, postmarked and received 27 September 1888, by the Central News Agency, was forwarded to Scotland Yard on 29 September. Initially it was considered a hoax, but when Eddowes was found three days after the letter's postmark with one ear partially cut off, the letter's promise to "clip the ladys [sic] ears off" gained attention. Police published the letter on 1 October, hoping someone would recognise the handwriting, but nothing came of this effort. The name "Jack the Ripper" was first used in this letter and gained worldwide notoriety after its publication. Most of the letters that followed copied the tone of this one. After the murders, police officials contended the letter had been a hoax by a local journalist.
• The "Saucy Jacky" postcard, postmarked and received 1 October 1888, by the Central News Agency, had handwriting similar to the "Dear Boss" letter. It mentions that two victims — Stride and Eddowes — were killed very close to one another: "double event this time". It has been argued that the letter was mailed before the murders were publicised, making it unlikely that a crank would have such knowledge of the crime, though it was postmarked more than 24 hours after the killings took place, long after details were known by journalists and residents of the area. Police officials later claimed to have identified a specific journalist as the author of both this message and the earlier "Dear Boss" letter.
• I don't like the name of this one, so I'm changing the title a bit.
• The "From Heck" letter, also known as the "Lusk letter," postmarked 15 October and received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Commitee on 16 October 1888. Lusk opened a small box to discover half a human kidney, later said by a doctor to have been preserved in "spirits of wine" (ethanol). One of Eddowes' kidneys had been removed by the killer. The writer claimed that he had "fried and ate" the missing kidney half. There is some disagreement over the kidney: some practical joke, and no more."

That's all I have to say for now. Just look up more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper. That's where I got my info. Thanks!