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Jack the RipperAtlas

Crime & Trafficking · Serial killers

A series of murders in London’s Whitechapel district has long been attributed to an unidentified killer popularly called Jack the Ripper. The identity of the person or persons responsible for the Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper has never been conclusively established.

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Timeline

  1. 1888 · eventWhitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper
  2. 1888 · first_appearanceLetters signed “Jack the Ripper” enter the case record
  3. 1888 · investigationPolice investigation of the Whitechapel murders
  4. 1888 · amplificationPress coverage and public panic around the Whitechapel murders
  5. 1888-08 · eventKilling of Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols (often treated as first canonical victim)
  6. 1939 · mutationWilliam Stewart theory proposing the killer was a woman
  7. 1987 · popularizationCommercial Jack the Ripper media adaptation released
  8. 1990 · document_releasePublication and debate around Maybrick diary / American-connection claims

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