"JACK THE
RIPPER" - Whitechapel, London, 1888.
Even though he is often mistakenly cited to have been the “world’s first modern serial killer,” the Whitechapel Killer "Jack the Ripper" is nonetheless the Mount Everest of serial killers. He is a serial killer’s serial killer, with multiple “copycat” serial killers scripting their fantasies on what they thought Jack the Ripper was.
The Whitechapel killer was a necrophile-piquérest lust killer, preferring to quickly 'blitz-kill' his female victims by cutting their throats from behind and afterwards indulging in his sexual fantasies of mutilation with the warm corpse at the scene of the crime.
There were five 'canonical' victims between August 31, 1888 and November 9, 1888 and a sixth victim, Martha Tabram that many attribute to the same perpetrator, murdered on August 7, 1888 and who would have been actually his first victim. Forensic crime scene profilers believe that the anomalies in the August 7 murder of Tabran can be easily accounted for by the possibility that the perpetrator was inexperienced and at the early stage of his 'learning curve' as to how to best realize his necrophilic fantasies. All his victims, except for the last one, were killed and mutilated outdoors on the street, in alleyways or courtyards.
(Above) 'Canonical' Jack the Ripper Victims:
Mary Ann Nichols, 31 August 1888; Annie Chapman, 8 Sept. 1888; Elizabeth Stride, 30 Sept. 1888.
(Above) Pathologist's Crime Scene Sketch of Victim Catherine Eddowes, 30 Sept. 1888.
(above) Crime Scene Photo of Mary Jane Kelly, 9 November 1888, the only victim found murdered indoors.
