Unsolved Murders

A chance to debate on this.
I will start with Jack The Ripper

 

1888
August 31
Jack the Ripper’s first victim murdered

• Jack the Ripper,” is found murdered and mutilated in the city’s Whitechapel district. London saw four more victims of the murderer during the next few months, but no suspect was ever found.
  
  In Victorian England, London’s East End was a teeming slum occupied by nearly a million of the city’s poorest citizens. Many women were forced to resort to prostitution, and in 1888 there were estimated to be more than 1,000 prostitutes in Whitechapel.
  
  That summer, a serial killer began targeting these downtrodden women. On September 8, the killer claimed his second victim, Annie Chapman, and on September 30 two more prostitutes–Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes–were murdered and carved up on the same night.
  
  READ MORE: 7 People Suspected of Being Jack the Ripper
  
  By then, London’s Scotland Yard police had determined the pattern of the killings. The murderer, offering to pay for sex, would lure his victims onto a secluded street or square and then slice their throats. As the women rapidly bled to death, he would then brutally disembowel them with the same six-inch knife.
  
  The police, who lacked modern forensic techniques such as fingerprinting and blood typing, was at a complete loss for suspects. Dozens of letters allegedly written by the murderer were sent to the police, and the majority of these were immediately deemed fraudulent. However, two letters–written by the same individual–alluded to crime facts known only to the police and the killer. These letters signed “Jack the Ripper,” gave rise to the serial killer’s popular nickname.
  

 

No one heard her scream. But in the early hours of Aug. 31, 1888, police came across the mutilated body of Mary Ann Nichols. Though Nichols’ gruesome death horrified residents of Whitechapel, London, her murder was just the beginning.
Over the next two months, four more women turned up dead in a similar fashion. And before long, the killer offered up a name for himself: Jack the Ripper.

So who was Mary Ann Nichols, Jack the Ripper’s first known victim?



Mary Ann Nichols’ grave marker in the City of London Cemetery. She was buried on Sept. 6, 1888, at the age of 43.

Born on Aug. 23, 1845, in the Soho neighborhood of London, Mary Ann Nichols (neé Walker) had a short and troubled life.

Her 16-year marriage ended bitterly in 1880 when Nichols accused her husband of infidelity. Her husband, however, called his wife a drunk and alleged that she’d left him on several occasions.

For the next eight years, Nichols bounced between workhouses, public lodgings, her father’s house, and the homes of various lovers. In 1881, her husband claimed that Nichols was living an “immoral life” — he may have meant prostitution — and stopped paying her the allowance she was due.

Nichols scraped by on the street. When she had enough money, she stayed in lodging houses across in London. One of her roommates remembered “Polly Nichols” as “very clean” but “melancholy.” The roommate also noted that she’d seen Nichols “the worse for drink once or twice.”

By 1888, Nichols had succumbed to her alcoholism. She drifted through life, relying on prostitution to earn enough money for a bed at a lodging house.

 

Tragically, Mary Ann Nichols would soon drift across the path of Jack the Ripper.

Mary Ann Nichols’ Grisly Death
Mary Ann Nichols spent her last evening alive like she’d spent many others: getting drunk. After drinking at the Frying Pan Pub in East London, Nichols returned to her lodging home. But she didn’t have enough money to get inside.

Undeterred, Nichols pointed to her straw bonnet, trimmed with black velvet. “Never mind,” she said. “I’ll soon get my doss money. See what a jolly bonnet I’ve got now.”

At 1:20 a.m., she set off into the night. A little over an hour later, Nichols crossed paths with her roommate, Emily Holland. Holland tried to convince Nichols to return with her, to no avail.

“I’ve had my doss money three times today and spent it,” Nichols exclaimed. At the time, Nichols could have made about three shillings by prostituting herself. A glass of gin cost the same. She added: “It won’t be long before I’m back.”

That was the last time anyone saw Mary Ann Nichols alive. No one knows exactly what happened in the next hour, except that Nichols met Jack the Ripper.

Around 3:30 a.m., a pair of delivery drivers came across Mary Ann Nichols’ slumped form on Buck Row. Though unsure if she were dead or alive, they decided to head to work and notify any police that they found. Police Constable John Neil soon arrived on the scene.

“There was not a soul about,” he later said. “I examined the body by the aid of my lamp and noticed blood oozing from a wound in the throat. She was lying on her back, with her clothes disarranged. I felt her arm, which was quite warm from the joints upwards.


“Her eyes were wide open. Her bonnet was off and lying at her side.”

Jack the Ripper had claimed his first victim. Police didn’t notice until about an hour later that he had disemboweled Nichols in addition to cutting her throat.

 

The death of Mary Ann Nichols shocked the community of Whitechapel. But her killer was just getting started. In September alone, Jack the Ripper killed three more victims: Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, and Catherine Eddowes.

In November, Jack the Ripper took what many believe is his last victim: Mary Jane Kelly. Those five women are considered Jack the Ripper’s canonical victims — although it is possible he killed others.

Despite his violent crimes and his taunting messages to investigators, Jack the Ripper was never caught, nor definitively identified.

In that way, no one can ever know for sure what happened to Mary Ann Nichols in her final moments. But her ex-husband summed up her life, and death after he identified her body.

 

Jack the Ripper was an English serial killer. Between August and November 1888, he murdered at least five women—all prostitutes—in or near the Whitechapel district of London’s East End. Jack the Ripper was never identified or arrested. Today the murder sites are the locus of a macabre tourist industry in London.

Jack the Ripper is famous in part because his identity is unknown. For years people have speculated about his identity. Commonly cited suspects include Montague Druitt, a barrister and teacher with an interest in surgery; Michael Ostrog, a Russian criminal and physician; and Aaron Kosminski, a Polish immigrant who lived in Whitechapel.

All of Jack the Ripper’s victims were prostitutes, and all but one were killed while soliciting customers on the street. In each instance, the victim’s throat was cut, and the body was mutilated in a manner indicating that the murderer had at least some knowledge of human anatomy.

Lets debate?

 

Jack the Ripper - Wikipedia

 

This particular Murder was in fact exactly where my Great Grandmother lived. I have a few passed-on theories from over the generations.

I hope more add to a debate that is almost to this very day all that time ago.

 

More than 130 years after the infamous Whitechapel Murders, the identity of Jack the Ripper remains unknown. Over the course of the last century, many potential assailants have been cast under the spotlight, some of whom were quite recent in relation to the attacks, but no one has ever been able to pin the gruesome crimes to just one person.

Some Jack the Ripper suspects have convincing profiles that seem to fit the crimes committed over the course of those fateful three years, whilst others are more obscure, and some are simply downright strange! Every Ripperologist has their own take on the most plausible Jack the Ripper suspects and why they believe they could be London’s most famous serial killer, but who do you think did it?

From Prince Albert to James Maybrick, Jack the Ripper suspects encompass people from all walks of life, but ultimately, everything is speculation at this point, with the advancement of modern technology throwing up more questions than it answers. The unknown identity of the serial killer who stalked the streets of the East End is what makes Jack the Ripper just as fascinating now as he was a century ago.

Who knows, maybe a new Jack the Ripper suspect will be revealed over the coming years! For now, discover some of the key suspects and most notable names that have been linked to the case, and learn more about the principal Jack the Ripper suspects, their lives, potential motives, and their connection to the Ripper murders.

Jack the Ripper Suspects - JackTheRipper

 

Have seen the movies, not sure how accurate they were.
Just read last week. JonBenet Ramsey, has been dead for 25 years. Sad no one arrested. Doesn't seen like it was 25 years ago.

 

That theory would explain the speed of his MO (as he may have needed fresh organs) and motive for wasting his said medical skills in throwing away such a career too. I think it was a policeman. In this case his motive to punish young prostitutes just may have been to punish society of which may have been his MO. His skills may have been being a typical bobby being invisible in plain sight and even invisible enough to use speed at any crime scene he may have wished. Also in plain site.

 

Her time is coming. This case will be solved eventually.

 

Here's more, slightly more recent unsolved murders.

 

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Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong seem to be the biggest mass murderers.

 

Yep.

 

I knew Suzy Lamplugh, before I changed my name from Kipper.

 

Trust you.