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Question: Who was jack the ripper!?
i know theres loads of theories about who he really was and we'll probebly never know for sure, but any opinions!? e!.g!. was he a surgeon!?, butcher!?, woman!? was he just one person or was there some sort of underground group that went round butchering these ladies of the night!? opinions please!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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By today's standards of crime, Jack the Ripper would barely make the headlines, murdering a mere five prostitutes in a huge slum swarming with criminals: just one more violent creep satisfying his perverted needs on the dregs of society!.

Well, he was probably sane!. I am sure there may be more murders such as Sweeny Todd (watch the movie or drama it's good)!. I bet there was more, because thirteen other women were also killed that year but not by good ol' Jack (erm, maybe not good, and I don't mean Jack Black)!. also apparently there were many others who murdered women like Jack the ripper!.

We don't know his occupation and who know's it could be a woman!. Jack the Ripper was just an alias!.!.!.

@Hmmm !.!.!.!. you forgot to list that you used wikkipedia, http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ri!.!.!. <- that site mateWww@QuestionHome@Com

Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in the autumn of 1888!. The name originated in 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, who were killed in public or semi-public places at night or in the early morning!. Each victim's throat was cut, after which her body was mutilated!. Theories suggest that the victims first were strangled, in order to silence them, which may explain 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!.

Newspapers, whose circulation had been growing during this era, bestowed widespread and enduring notoriety on the killer because of the attacks' savagery and the police's failure to capture the murderer (they sometimes missed him at the crime scenes by mere minutes)!.

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!. Many authors, historians, and amateur detectives have proposed theories about the identity of the killer and his victims!.

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Jack the Ripper was a British serial killer during the Victorian era!. He killed prostitutes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com