Jack the Ripper kicked off the world's obsession with true crime. But what if we're wrong about the serial killer?
ABCHe is the subject of films, books, walking tours and high school history classes. Jack the Ripper was the original cold case, the world's first true crime obsession, and the reason women were warned against leaving their homes after dark. The women lost to myth Historians and amateur sleuths continue to debate exactly how many women were killed by Jack the Ripper, but it's generally agreed that five murders in Whitechapel in 1888 were linked. "London lies today under the spell of a great terror … a nameless reprobate — half man, half beast — is daily gratifying his murderous instincts," the Star newspaper reported on September 8, 1888. While some believe Mary Jane Kelly was the Whitechapel killer's final victims, others insist his murders continued across Europe for many years.
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