Слайд 1Jack the Ripper
a famous criminals
Слайд 2The ripper jack is a pseudonym assigned to an unidentified
serial killer who operated in Whitechapel and surrounding areas of
London in the second half of 1888.
Prostitutes from slums to which the murderer cut a throat before opening an abdominal cavity were the victims attributed to Jack the Ripper. Extraction of internals at least caused the assumption in three of the victims that the murderer has the certain anatomic knowledge peculiar to the professional surgeon.
Слайд 3The exact number of Jack the Ripper victims is currently
unknown, is the subject of controversy and ranges from 5
to 15. Nevertheless, there is a list of five "canonical" victims that most researchers and individuals involved in the investigation agree with.
Mary Ann Nikolz, is killed on August 31, 1888. Mary Nikolz's body was found at 3:40 on Bax by Rowe. The throat was cut as a result of two blows struck with a fine edge. The lower part of an abdominal cavity was opened — wounds had fragmentary character. Besides, on a body it is revealed several wounds put with the same knife.
Annie Chapman, is killed on September 8, 1888. Annie Chapman's corpse was found about 6 in the morning on the backyard of house 29 on Henbury Street in Spitalfilds. As well as in a case with Nikolz, the throat is cut as a result of two blows with the razor. However the abdominal cavity was opened completely, and the uterus was removed from an organism of the woman. According to the witness, he saw Chapman with the tall dark-haired man.
Слайд 4 Elisabeth Strayd, is killed on September 30, 1888. Strayd's body
was found approximately in the first one o'clock in the
morning, in Datlfilds-yard on Berenr Street, it cut off an ear lobe, according to a promise of the Eviscerator.
Catherine Eddous, is killed on September 30, 1888 in one day with other victim, Elisabeth Strayd. The body Keith Eddous is found on Mitr-Skuer at 1:45 in the night.
Mary Jane Kelly, was born in Ireland in 1863, is killed on November 9, 1888. Mary Kelly's corpse spoiled to unrecognizability was found in her own room at 10:45 in the morning.
Слайд 5Way of murder
Suffocation
During the examination of some of the women
killed, doctors found signs of strangulation. This explains the fact
that in most cases people living nearby did not hear screams during the murder.
Cutting of a throat
Jack the Ripper cut a throat from left to right, the wound was very deep. It is considered that in blood it managed not to be soiled thanks to the fact that, cutting a throat to the victim, it at the same time inclined the woman's head to the right. Jack the Ripper began to open an abdominal cavity after death of the victim. At three women he took bodies and carried away them with himself, at Annie Chapman — a uterus with a part of a vagina and bladder, at Catherine Eddous the left kidney and a uterus was taken, and at Mary Kelly heart is cut out.
Слайд 6Letters from the Ripper
During the investigation of the Ripper case,
the police, newspapers and representatives of other organizations received thousands
of letters concerning the Ripper case in one way or another. Sometimes they contained carefully thought-out ways to capture the killer, but the vast majority of them were considered inapplicable
In terms of investigation, hundreds of letters claimed to have been written by the killer himself were much more interesting. Most likely, they are all a mystification (most believe that genuine letters from Jack the ripper do not exist
Слайд 7Wide fame and at the same time mystery of the
offender, as well as cinematic possibilities led to the appearance
of a huge number of films about the Ripper.