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Biography

Name: Jack the Ripper
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: Murderer

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Biography of Jack the Ripper
553 words, approx. 2 pages
An unidentified man, nicknamed "Jack the Ripper," was held responsible for murdering five London prostitutes in 1888. The five prostitutes were stabbed to death between August 31 and November 9. Jack the Ripper, so named for his skill with a knife, was...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jack the Ripper
513 words, approx. 2 pages
pseudonymous murderer of at least five women, all prostitutes, in or near the Whitechapel district of London's East End, from August 7 to November 10, 1888. It is one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of English crime. All but one of Jack the...
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Jack the Ripper
113 words, approx. 1 pages
Pseudonymous murderer of at least five women, all prostitutes, in or near London's Whitechapel district, from Aug. 7 to Nov. 10, 1888. The throat of each victim was cut, and usually the body was mutilated in a manner indicating the murderer had...
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Jack the Ripper Information
5,629 words, approx. 19 pages
Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England in the latter half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News...


News and Journals
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History Today
THE HUNT FOR Jack the Ripper.
05/01/2000: 6,483 words, approx. 22 pages
William D. Rubinstein reviews the achievements of the 'Ripperologists' and lends weight to the argument surrounding the Ripper Diaries. THE BRUTAL MURDERS OF FIVE prostitutes in London's East End in the autumn of 1888 by an unknown killer who came to be...
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Contemporary Review
The Diary of Jack the Ripper.
04/01/1994: 786 words, approx. 3 pages
Shirley Harrison. Smith Gryphon. 15.99.[pounds] 1856850501. The game's afoot, Watson. Still. Five years after the centennial mark, with its sanguineous froth of celebrant volumes, a haemorrhagic trickle of three new-sponsored pretenders to the bloodstained crown have appeared. The first, and most...
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AP News
Historian claims to ID Jack the Ripper
5/2/2007: 607 words, approx. 2 pages
An eminent South African historian believes he has stumbled on the identity of Jack the Ripper.Charles van Onselen said at first he wasn't sure he wanted to publicize the conclusions he drew when he noticed parallels in the century-old, unsolved Ripper case and the background...
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AP News
Md. court rejects sniper's appeal
11/5/2007: 318 words, approx. 1 pages
Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad does not deserve a new trial in Maryland, a state appeals court ruled Monday in a sharply worded unanimous decision that compared Muhammad to Jack the Ripper.The state Court of Special Appeals said Muhammad terrorized the Washington region in a...
 


 

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