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Coverage of Jack the Ripper in The Illustrated Police News Front page of an 1888 London newspaper with bold headlines reading Ghastly Murder in the East-End. Dreadful Mutilation of a Woman. Capture: Leather Apron, reporting on Jack the Ripper. Black-and-white illustration of two police officers discovering a woman's body lying in a cobblestone street at night in Victorian London, with buildings and a public house sign visible. letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper coverage of Jack the Ripper in The Illustrated Police News On This Day August 7
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Coverage of Jack the Ripper in The Illustrated Police News
Coverage of Jack the Ripper in The Illustrated Police News Latest Incidents in Connection with the Doings of Jack the Ripper, the East-End Fiend, engraving in The Illustrated Police News, 1888.

Jack the Ripper

English murderer
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John Philip Jenkins
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Jack the Ripper, pseudonymous murderer of at least five women in or near the Whitechapel district of London’s East End between August and November 1888. The case is one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of English crime. Some dozen murders between 1888 and 1892 have been speculatively attributed to Jack the Ripper, but only five of those, all committed in 1888, were linked by police to a single murderer. The so-called “canonical five” victims...

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