The Ripper Murders

It has been 120 years since the famous Ripper Murders took place in London, so to burst your bubble before you get too anxious, there will never be justice for these victims. Jack "the Ripper" is dead by now, and there will most likely never be any new evidence presented. He was given his name by the town newspaper because he liked cutting the body open multiple times after their death.

Jack "the Ripper" has more books/movies made about him, then every United States President combined. We find his life so interesting and hard to turn away from, because of his uniqe was of killing his victims. "He comes from out of the fog, kills violently and quickly, and disappears without a trace.” (Crime Library). One of the reasons that Jack received his name is because he would cut open his victims throats, which tore their vocal chords (restricting them from screaming) and causing them to hemorrhage (loose blood extremely quickly) to death within a matter of seconds. There is no antidote for something like that. No fixing it.

He was a creative killer, not encouraging it, but it's hard not to be fascinated by his various methods of torture. This is pretty solid proof, if I might say, that he might have suffered from a mental illness or something of the sort. On one occasion, Jack would stab his victim a good 40-50 times. You would think that 1 or 2 would be enough. This murder alone leads me to think that some sort of hatred inspired him to kill that person. I hypothesize if Jack might have had Intermittent Explosive disorder, which causes you to go on extreme rampages without fearing consequences. On another account, the victim was found dead with "[...] a blunt instrument rammed into her vagina" (Crime Library) which was her cause of death.

His victim count has not been confirmed since other unsolved murders in the area could possibly also be from him, but the 5 victims that were certainly him were female prostitutes in a small town in London, but none of his victims had been raped before death. I can't stop to wonder why prostitutes? He doesn't seem to be much of a vigilante, so what could it be?

There have always been speculations on who it might have been, but never any justice. I'm determined that Jack "the Ripper" was a younger man who had been suffering from an undiagnosed mental illness. To do those kinds of brutal killings, you must not be concious of the severity of what you are doing. Killing someone is one thing It doesn't take a psychopath to murder someone, but to impale someone, or to stab someone 50 times, that takes a real lunatic. I still don't completely understand why he chose to murder prostitutes, if he didn't sexually abuse them, then why them? There is always the thought in my head that he might kill these women to feed hunger for murder. He might have chosen prostitutes because to him, they might have been the most vulnerable, and most unlikely to defend themselves or seek protection.


Little Side Note:
Frances Coles was a woman who was found dead near the Ripper murders locations, but her death was assumed to be by another man of the area. He was sentenced, then years after, it was finally discovered that he wasn't Coles' killer, but she had in fact been part of the Ripper serial killings.

Source(s):
-http://www.jack-the-ripper.org/

-http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/ripper/lady_2.html

-http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/ripper/index_1.html

-http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/ripper/suspects_11.html