A person doesn’t have to be a serial killer enthusiast to know the name, Jack the Ripper. Though the heinous murders associated with this killer took place 128 years ago, the name has been far from forgotten.
Perhaps it’s the era in which these murders happened. When you think of the 1880’s gentlemen of sophistication come to mind, not human butchers. But that’s exactly what ‘Jack’ was.
The anatomy of the murders is particularly brutal. The victims, all women and mostly prostitutes had their throats slit before abdominal mutilation. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge. Or perhaps just very familiar with the female body.