English Presentation:: Jack The Ripper [PDF]

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Martín, Sergi, Marcos i Àlex



English



Olga Margarit & Gemma Paretas



April, 10th’13



ENGLISH PRESENTATION: Jack the Ripper 1st SLIDE (JACK THE RIPPER): We’re going to talk about Jack the Ripper, a famous serial killer. 2nd SLIDE (WHO’S HIM?): Jack the Ripper is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name was written for first time in a letter and the media used it. In this letter, someone said that he was the murderer. MARCOS This killer attacked female prostitutes from the slums, he cut their throats and then, he mutilated their abdominals. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge. A lot of experts have explained the modus operandi of Jack the Ripper, and is this: deep throat slashes, abdominal and genital mutilations, removal of internal organs, and progressive facial mutilations. There are a lot of examples derived from Jack the Ripper like the French Ripper, the Düsseldorf Ripper, the Camden Ripper, the Blackout Ripper, the Yorkshire Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper. 3rd SLIDE (MURDERS): There were eleven separate murders and they were included in a London Metropolitan Police Service investigation, and were known collectively as the "Whitechapel murders". In this map you can see the places where the victims were attacked. There are different opinions of these murders, some people think that they should be linked to the same killer, but five of them, known as the "canonical five", are the work of the Ripper.



ÀLEX



The first two cases in the Whitechapel murders were Emma Elizabeth Smith and Martha Tabram, but they aren’t included in the canonical five. Emma Elizabeth Smith was robbed and sexually assaulted on Osborn Street and Tabram was killed in 1888; she had suffered 39 stab wounds. The canonical five Ripper victims are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. Mary Jane Kelly is generally considered to be the Ripper's final victim, and it’s secure that the crimes ended because the killer died, was imprisoned or he emigrated. The Whitechapel murders file details another four murders that happened after the canonical five: those of Rose Mylett, Alice McKenzie, the Pinchin Street torso and Frances Coles. 1



Martín, Sergi, Marcos i Àlex



English



Olga Margarit & Gemma Paretas



April, 10th’13



Besides the eleven Whitechapel murders, commentators linked other attacks to the Ripper, like the victim called "Fairy Fay". 4th SLIDE (SUSPECTS): There were a lot of suspects, some of them were:



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Montague John Druitt



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George Chapman



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Aaron Kosminski



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Michael Ostrog



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John Pizer



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James Thomas Sadler



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Francis Tumblety



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William Henry Bury



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Thomas Neill Cream



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Thomas Hayne Cutbush



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Frederick Bailey Deeming



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Carl Feigenbaum



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Robert Donston Stephenson



5th SLIDE (INVESTIGATION): The police did an intensive procedure to find the killer. A large team of policemen conducted house-to-house to find him. Forensic material was collected and examined. Suspects were identified, traced and either examined more closely or eliminated from the inquiry. The police worked as they work today, but they never found him. The police files of these murders already exist.



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A group of volunteer citizens in London's East End called the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee patrolled the streets looking for suspicious characters, petitioned the government to raise a reward for information about the killer, and hired private detectives to investigate the case, because they didn’t feel satisfied with the police work. The concentration of the killings at the weekend and the distance between them indicate that the Ripper was employed during the week and lived locally. Others thought that the killer was an educated upper-class man, possibly a doctor or an aristocrat, because he had medical knowledge.



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Martín, Sergi, Marcos i Àlex



English



Olga Margarit & Gemma Paretas



April, 10th’13



In addition to the contradictions and unreliability of contemporary accounts, attempts to identify the real killer are hampered by the lack of surviving forensic evidence. DNA analyses are inconclusive, and the available material has been handled many times and it’s too contaminated to provide meaningful results. 6th SLIDE (LETTERS): SERGI



Over the course of the Ripper murders, the police, newspapers and others received hundreds of letters claimed to have been written by the killer himself, and three of these in particular are very important: the "Dear Boss" letter, the "Saucy Jacky" postcard and the "From Hell" letter. The "Dear Boss" letter was postmarked in September. Initially it was considered a hoax, but it was considered an important letter when Eddowes was found three days after the letter's postmark with one ear partially cut off. The "Saucy Jacky" postcard was postmarked in October, and it mentions that two victims were killed very close to one another. The "From Hell" letter was received by George Lusk, leader of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, in October. The handwriting and style is unlike that of the "Dear Boss" letter and "Saucy Jacky" postcard. The letter came with a small box in which Lusk discovered half of a kidney, preserved in "spirits of wine" (ethanol). This half of kidney was of Eddowes. Apart from these letters there are others like Openshaw letter... 7th SLIDE (MEDIA):



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The Ripper murders changed the form of explaining the crimes by the journalists. Jack the Ripper wasn’t the first serial killer but his case was the first to create a worldwide media frenzy. For this reason, the government allowed the publication of inexpensive newspapers with wider circulation. And in the Victorian era the newspapers were cheaper and they included popular magazines as The Illustrated Police News. After the publication of the "Dear Boss" letter, "Leather Apron" was the name adopted by the press and public to describe the killer. After the murders, Jack the Ripper became the children's bogey man. The representations of Jack were often phantasmagorical or monstrous. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was represented in film dressed in everyday clothes as a man with a hidden secret, and the atmosphere was created with lighting effects. By the 1960s, the Ripper had become "the symbol of a predatory aristocracy", and he was represented as a gentleman.



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The Ripper appears in novels, short stories, poems, comic books, games, songs, plays, operas, television programmes and films, but we have to know what’s fact and what’s fiction, because, for example, there is a Diary of Jack the Ripper that is false.



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