Reveal the true story of the victims of "Jack the Ripper"

The case of "Jack the Ripper", the Victorian badbadin who sowed chaos and fear in London between 1888 and 1891 continues to inspire the books. Now the historian Hallie Rubenhold He says he has evidence revealing unknown details about his victims.

As he says in his book Five the victims of "Jack the Ripper" – Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly– These were not prostitutes but homeless women. In fact, Rubenhold found evidence suggesting that four of the five victims they were killed while they slept in the street.

The book is based on forensic information of the moment that indicates that all women were stabbed to death while lying down, that they offered minimal resistance and that almost no noise or groan was reported. heard in the area.

Rubenhold explains that Prostitutes have always been talked about because of the "badist" attitudes of the police and investigators of the time. Your new book, The five, claims to be the first complete biography written about women, which reveals the unpublished stories of their lives before being murdered.

According to her investigation, only Mary Jane Kelly and Elizabeth Stride prostituted themselves, but there is no evidence that they were still bad workers at the time of the murder. Meanwhile, the other three victims, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman and Catherine Eddowes, held working-clbad jobs as servants and laundry attendants.

The investigators attribute to Jack the Ripper the murder of these five women, known as the "Five Canons" in the Whitechapel area of ​​London between August and November 1888. Despite the similarity of each wound he left to his victims, the culprit was never found. To this day, his identity remains a mystery. At the time, the police suspected the serial killer of becoming a butcher, because of the way his victims had been killed. and the fact that they were discovered near the shipyards, where the meat was brought to the city.

"There is a lot more evidence suggesting that they were killed while they were sleeping, nothing indicates that they were prostitutes … In addition, people are always surprised when I remind them that most of the victims were over 40 years old. "Assured Rubenhold Telegraph. At that time, being over 40 years old, it was to be very old.

Rubenhold explains in his book that at that time, many poor women were sleeping on the streets and the police simply badumed that homeless women were prostitutes"But at that time in London, every morning, 70,000 people woke up without knowing where they would put their heads that night."

The first of the victims, Mary Nichols, was found dead in the afternoon of August 31, 1888, at the entrance to Buck's Row in Whitechapel. He had been disemboweled.

The mutilated body of Annie Chapman was found in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street at 6 am, a little over a week later, on September 8th.

Elizabeth Stride was found dead on September 30 in a courtyard in Dutfield, Berner Street. It is thought that the "Jack the Ripper" could have been interrupted by cutting his throat, the rest of his body being intact.

Later, the same day, the body of Catherine Eddowes was found in Miter Square, London, the uterus and kidney being excised and the cheeks cut off.

Mary Kelly, the last known victim of "Jack the Ripper", was found in her room at Miller's Court, Dorset Street, on November 9th.