This is the story of Jack the Ripper, an unknown serial killer who terrorized the streets of London in the late 19th century. His identity remains a mystery to this day, but his gruesome murders of women in the East End of London shocked the world. The victims were all prostitutes
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Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was also called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron.