Jack the Ripper Special

Vintage Radio 29th January 2018

The Ripper is an amazing in depth case, Today is a brief
look at the victims and suspects and who I (by no
means a ripperologist) believe did the murders.
London 1880s
London was home to mass immigration from all over Europe
during the late 1880s. Poor living conditions and poverty was
rampant in the East End and in London alone it’s said that
over 1200 women worked as prostitutes to make some sort
of a living
The Victims
Although the total number of Ripper victims can never be
said for certain it is general opinion that there was 5 Ripper
victims. The Whitechapel Murders file, actually has eleven
victims on it. As we are a morning show I won’t go into too
much detail
Let’s take a look at the victims
Mary Nichols
The body of Mary Nichols was found in a gateway in Bucks
Row. Her remains was found on 31st August 1888 at just
after 3.30am. Mary is widely believed to be the Rippers first
victim. Her body was found with various wounds, her throat
had been cut twice
 Annie Chapman
Annie Chapman’s body was found in the back garden of
number 29 Hanbury Street at around 6am on 8th September
1888. Annie was last seen alive around 5.30am that morning
and again like Mary her throat was also cut twice along with
other wounds. What was more shocking was that her uterus
had been carved out. It was with Annie Chapman’s murder
that set a mass outbreak of panic in London and the
surrounding areas.
Elizabeth Stride
After an absence of over 20 days, the killer returned to the
streets of the East End of London on 30th September and
took the lives of two more victims. Both where murdered
within an hour of each other. The first victim, on what was
dubbed the “night of the double event,” was Elizabeth Stride.
Her body was found around 1am that night. Her throat too
had been cut yet unlike Annie and Mary her abdomen had
been left alone. That was the first murder of that night the
second was
Catherine Eddowes
Catherine’s body was found at around 1.45am on 30th
September 1888. Her throat again cut and like Annie her
uterus was missing as was her Kidney. Part of Eddowes'
bloodied apron was found at the entrance to a tenement in
Goulston Street, Whitechapel
Mary Kelly
After the double event the whole month of October passed
and thoughts of more victims possibly subsided for many.
The fifth victim was Mary Kelly. Her body was found on 9th
November 1888 at around 10.40am on her bed at 13 Millers
court. Her throat too had been sliced this time all the way
down to her spine, her heart was missing.
The killer now dubbed Jack the ripper by the press

The suspects
Anybody who was anyone probably got their name threw in
the hat at some point or another. From royalty to a German
sailor the press and public wanted to get to the bottom of
the Ripper, firstly let’s look at
Aaron Kosminski
Aaron was a polish barber, born in Russia in the mid-1860s
and had moved to London in the early 1880s to ply his trade
as a barber. He was working in Whitechapel at the time of
the murders and was said to have a strong hatred for
women. He was sent to an asylum in 1889 where he died not
long after. Aarons DNA was found on Catherine Eddowes
shawl. He was not suspected at the time even though the
Jack the ripper files show that they was looking for somebody
named ‘Kosminski’ secondly its

Francis Craig
In recent times it has been claimed that Mary kellys Husband
Francis Craig. Francis was working as a reporter at the time of
the murders, and was even covering the police courts and
inquests on the Whitechapel murders. In 1884 he married a
young lady by the name of Elizabeth Weston Davies, whose
alias was Mary Kelly the fifth ripper victim. It’s said he went
in to blind anger when finding out his beloved was working as
a prostitute, ‘ripperologists’ believe he plotted his wife’s
murder along with killing other prostitutes to hide his
involvement. The thirds one is

James Maybrick
James was a Liverpool cotton merchant and spent a lot of
time in the capital, In 1992, a document presented as James
Maybrick's diary showed up, which claimed that he was Jack
the Ripper. The diary's author does not mention his own
name, but offers enough to consistent with Maybrick's
established life. Maybrick was murdered himself by his wife
Florence on April 27th 1889 by arsenic poisoning, maybe she
found out his dark secret and had to do away with him. I
have done a short video when I visited Maybricks grave, you
can see it on my Youtube Lionheart Liverpool

Lastly
Walter Sickert
Author Patricia Cornwell spent countless dollars getting to
the name artist Walter Richard Sickert as the real Jack the
Ripper, and even claimed to have found DNA evidence which
linked Sickert to at least one of Jack the Ripper's letters
Born in Munich in 1860 he moved to London in 1869, Sickert
was well known for painting prostitutes and in some of his
paintings it is suggested that there are clues to the rippers
murders with experts suggesting that only the ‘true
murderer’ could of painted what Sickert painted. In one
painting of a woman with a pearl necklace, it is said the pose
of the lady in the painting was identical to that of Kelly's
when as she was found murdered, the only one of the
women to be murdered in her bed. Another showed a
woman's face mutilated by paint in a way similar to
Eddowes's wounds
As I said if you go online there is countless suspects but I
have narrowed it down in to who I feel could be Jack The
Ripper……………..