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Question: What r the names of the 5 female victims of Jack the ripper and why did he kill them in particular and motive!?
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Mary Ann Nichols
31 August 1888


Annie Chapman
8 Sept!. 1888


Elizabeth Stride
30 Sept!. 1888


Catherine Eddowes
30 Sept!. 1888


Mary Jane Kelly
9 November 1888


**Martha was an 'alleged' victim in 1988

They have no clear motive of why JTR commited the murders but some believed it stemmed from his hatred for prostitues after he contacted syphilis!.

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Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified serial killer[2] (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England in the autumn of 1888!. The name is taken from a letter sent to the London Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer!.

The victims were women allegedly earning income as prostitutes!. The murders were perpetrated in public or semi-public places at night or towards the early morning!. The victim's throat was cut, after which the body was mutilated!. Theories suggest the victims were first strangled in order to silence them, which also explained the reported lack of blood at the crime scenes!. The removal of internal organs from three of the victims led some officials at the time of the murders to propose that the killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge!.[3]

Newspapers, whose circulation had been growing during this era,[4] bestowed widespread and enduring notoriety on the killer owing to the savagery of the attacks and the failure of the police in their attempts to capture the murderer, sometimes missing him at the crime scenes by mere minutes!.[5][6]

Because the killer's identity has never been confirmed, the legends surrounding the murders have become a combination of genuine historical research, folklore and pseudohistory!. Over the years, many authors, historians, and amateur detectives have proposed theories regarding the identity (or identities) of the killer and his victims!.

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The canonical five are:
Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols;
Annie Chapman;
Catherine Eddowes;
Elizabeth Stride;
Mary Jane Kelly!.

Some recent theorists tend to rule out Stride and Kelly as victims of the same killer but these five are generally considered "definite" Ripper victims!. The motive is usually considered nowadays to have been for mutilation for sexual gratification!. The victims were likely chosen at random!.

Martha Tabram was considered a Ripper victim at the time and there is really no good reason for ruling her out!. And since the Ripper was never identified he may have been responsible for other killings as well!.
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Lady luck's answer is spot on!.

For more research this website is just brilliant!. Loads of info on all the victims, suspects and investigators, as well as photos and other images of the scenes, then and now!.

http://www!.casebook!.org/Www@QuestionHome@Com

because they were prostitutes!.


Mary Ann Nichols
Annie Chapman
Elizabeth Stride
Mary Jane Kelly
Catherine Eddowes!.



they think she was!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Martha_Tabr!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com