The victims were all prostitutes working in the White Chapel area of london. The victims were stabbed or rather slashed to death. The murders got worse as he went along, each victim being more mutilated than the one before. In short his victims were from beginning to end: Mary Ann Nichols 31st August 1888, Annie Chapman 8th September 1888, Liz Stride and Catherine Eddows 30th September 1888, and finally Mary Jane Kelly 9th November 1888. Mary Jane Kelly's body was so badly "ripped" she didn't look human. She was "all over the room", her breasts lay on the table next to her, her left arm and head hung on the the body by a thread. The nose had been cut off. The forehead and thighs had been skinned. The abdomen had been slashed open her entrails and kidney pulled out and one of her hands had been pushed inside her stomach.
The suspects are many but one man whom i will talk about afterwards is not even recognized by most "ripperologists" even though they can't prove the evidence to be ungenuine and in my opinion and many others was Jack the Ripper. But here are the more common names among the suspects:
Montague John Druitt: A failed lawyer who was suspected mainly because the killings stopped at the same time of his suicide, drowning himself in the thames. Unfortunately this suspect was a grasp of hope to solve the crime from the newly employed detective who wasn't present in the area throughout the murders. The police officer Sir Melville Macnaghten claimed Druitt was indeed the ripper, he presented facts of Druitts past which would later be found to be erronous. Mcnaughton joined the police force six years after the killings and had to rely on mainly second hand information, in escence he was grabbing at straws.
Edward, the Duke Of Clarence, heir to the throne of England. One of the most popular theories basically because it would be beyond headlines if it were proved to be true, but unfortunately against some ripperologists biast there are certain facts. One that Edward was not in London when some of the crimes occurred and two that although they claim he became crazy due to syphalis some of his latest documents show a clearly sane man.
Dr. Neil Cream was also a suspect but considering most serial killers stick to their methods of which Cream's was poisoning it is highly unlikely. Also the fact that he was in jail in America when the crimes occurred doesn't help the theory much either.
Severin Klosowski a.ka George Chapman. Again another poisoner three wives who were his victimes, again highly unlikely he would go from poisoning to butchering, the theory only caught attention from an outcry of Inspector Abbeline stating "You've caught Jack the Ripper". In my opinion obviously not but at least they caught a serial killer.
Then the accusations were aimed at a man who "practiced black magic" Dr. Stephonson, a number of Jews, the Russian secret service, and a number of individuals who all probably didn't deserve this negative attention, during or after life.
In the early 90's however, that is the 1990's a diary was discovered. When its contents were read the man was stunned he had discovered the identity of Jack the Ripper. Shortly before the Hitler diaries became public and it was found that they were fake. This of course sent the country into an outburst of opinion, bias, and harassment. However through all modern testing the diary could not be found to be ingenuine, when asked about the handwriting, professionals said that it would have to be that of a drug abuser with deep anger and psychosis. All of this fell into place. The Diary was that of a James Maybrick, a man who abused arsenic, which lead to his death, and within the Diary he provided information which was not accessable to the public about the crimes, then his Gold Watch was found with his signature, the initials of all the victims and "I am Jack" scratched into the back. The fact that ripperologists are stumped when trying to prove the diary a fake still does not sway them from acknowledging it as at least one of the most likely sources for the solution. It is either a genuine diary of Jack the Ripper, or a fake which the author had an indepth knowledge in drug abuse, psychosis, and killing, he would have to have access to paper and ink which were available before his time, and he would have to have knowledge on the Jack the Ripper crimes the likes which most ripperologists have and that of the life of James Maybrick. The latter seems highly unlikely, Below may be and is in my opinion the cold stare of Jack the Ripper.
