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George Lusk And The Letter From Hell.
Of all the letters from Jack the Ripper that were sent in the wake of the original "Dear Boss" missive, the one that many people believe has the greatest claim to having been sent by the murderer is the "From Hell" letter that was sent to Mr. George Lusk.
On the 10th of September, 1888, two days after the murder of Annie Chapman, a group of local businessmen and tradesmen had got together and formed the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, with the intention of supplementing the police presence on the streets of the East End of London. They met at the premises of their treasurer, Joseph Aarons, proprietor of the Crown pub on Mile End Road. At their inaugural meeting, they appointed local builder and decorator George Lusk to be their Chairman and President.
Over the next few weeks, George Lus...
published: 13 Jun 2021
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Home of George Lusk (Jack the Ripper) 🔪🎩
#whitechapel #fromhell #georgelusk #jacktheripper
published: 23 Jun 2021
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Jack The Ripper an George Lusk | LETTERS OF NOTE - BRIEFE, DIE DIE WELT BEDEUTEN | Shaun Usher
Letters of Note ist nicht einfach nur ein Sammelwerk vieler Briefe aus verschiedenen Epochen der Geschichte, sondern konfrontiert den Leser mit aller Verrücktheit, dem Humor, den Nöten und Sorgen sowie aufmunternden und bewegenden Worten berühmter und bedeutender Persönlichkeiten, darunter viele Schriftsteller, Schauspieler, Designer, Künstler und Politiker. Ein jeder Brief ist nicht nur ein persönliches Statement, sondern beinhaltet auch ein Stückweit eine Form der Selbstoffenbarung des Verfassers. Shaun Ushers Sammelwerk ist ein emotionsgeladenes Kraftpaket und gibt uns authentische Einblicke in sehr private Lebenssituationen, die dem Leser allesamt ungeschönt, unverändert und zugleich zutiefst ehrlich präsentiert werden. Letters of Note erhält zurecht den Titel "Briefe, die die Welt be...
published: 03 Jul 2022
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Jack The Ripper - The "From Hell" Letter
The "From Hell" Letter (also known as the "Lusk letter") was a letter sent alongside half of a preserved human kidney to the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, George Lusk, in October 1888.[3] The author of this letter claimed to be the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who had murdered and mutilated at least four women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London in the two months prior to Lusk receiving this letter, and whose vigilance committee Lusk led in community efforts to assist police in efforts to identify and apprehend the perpetrator.
published: 24 May 2021
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Jack the Ripper Whitechapel murderer 1888
An in depth documentary about Jack the Ripper the Whitechapel murderer. With great film footage and photographs of the time. Who was he?
published: 07 Oct 2022
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Jack the Ripper: The Killer from Hell
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published: 18 Nov 2019
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Jack The Ripper - The Final Solution
published: 19 Sep 2022
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Name this tune George Lusk at MFA 5 7 22
Please Subscribe, Like and Share our Youtube channel: Bob's Barn Jams.
George Lusk, at the Jamboree at Hopkins , MI. This was held at Piki's Cafe. There were 21 musicians plus the audience in attendance. , including 12 fiddlers. The next MFA sanctioned jam is at the Fiddlers and traditional Music Convention at Hillsdale, MI Aug 12-13, 2022.
MFA President: Bob Warner, [email protected]
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published: 08 May 2022
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George Lusk 6.4.2014 Part 1
For Part 2 click here: http://youtu.be/kjs-H56FXyk
George Lusk is a comedy duo from the state of Texas. Comprised of Caleb George and Matt Lusk, the two met at the University of Houston in the Fall of 2005. They started the college improv troupe Scatter! together in 2007 and have been doing improv together for over seven years.
Caleb George hails from Arlington, Texas but currently lives in Chicago. He attended the University of Houston where he studied Theatre and Film.There he started the improv troupe Scatter! that went on to win the Southwest Regional of the College Improv Tournament and compete in Nationals. In Houston, he joined the ComedySportz Houston ensemble for four years until his move to Chicago in 2010. Caleb is a part of several wonderful teams in Chi-town including: Hit...
published: 10 Jun 2014
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Yours Truly Jack The Ripper - The Dear Boss Letter.
A question that we often get asked on the Jack the Ripper tour is, where did the name Jack the Ripper come from? In this video we take a look at where the name came from and at how, once the name had caught the public imagination, the Whitechapel murders quickly gained an unparalleled level of notoriety.
The video begins by detailing how it was detailed in the newspapers in mid-October that the police were looking into the provenance of over 700 letters that purported to have been written by the unknown miscreant who was carrying out the murders in the East End of London.
One of the earliest of these letters was sent to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, on the 24th of September, 1888, and in it, the supposed perpetrator of Annie Chapman's murder claimed to be in ...
published: 30 May 2021
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George Lusk And The Letter From Hell.
Of all the letters from Jack the Ripper that were sent in the wake of the original "Dear Boss" missive, the one that many people believe has the greatest claim ...
Of all the letters from Jack the Ripper that were sent in the wake of the original "Dear Boss" missive, the one that many people believe has the greatest claim to having been sent by the murderer is the "From Hell" letter that was sent to Mr. George Lusk.
On the 10th of September, 1888, two days after the murder of Annie Chapman, a group of local businessmen and tradesmen had got together and formed the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, with the intention of supplementing the police presence on the streets of the East End of London. They met at the premises of their treasurer, Joseph Aarons, proprietor of the Crown pub on Mile End Road. At their inaugural meeting, they appointed local builder and decorator George Lusk to be their Chairman and President.
Over the next few weeks, George Lusk petitioned the Home Secretary, Sir Henry Matthews, urging him to sanction on official reward for information that might lead to the apprehension of the Whitechapel murder. His entreaties, however, consistently met with official rejections.
But, his battle with the Government was covered extensively by the newspapers, and, as a consequence, his name appeared in the papers on a daily basis throughout the first two weeks of October, 1888.
As a result, he attracted the attention of several unsavoury characters and by the 10th of October he was being stalked by some of these.
Once again, the newspapers gave maximum coverage to Mr Lusk's problems with these stalkers, and this brought him to the attention of a Jack the Ripper letters writer, and he too began to receive letters from Jack the Ripper.
Then, on the evening of Tuesday, 16th October, a small package was delivered to his house in Alderney Road, Mile End. Inside was a letter addressed "From Hell" and wrapped inside it was a portion of kidney, which, on being examined by several doctors, was declared to be a portion of human kidney,
The letter's author, claimed that the kidney was part of the kidney that had been removed from Catherine Eddowes, who had been murdered in Mitre Square in the early hours of the 30th of September, 1888.
In this video Richard Jones looks at the circumstances behind the receipt of the kidney by George Lusk, and presents the case both for and against its having been sent by the murderer.
https://wn.com/George_Lusk_And_The_Letter_From_Hell.
Of all the letters from Jack the Ripper that were sent in the wake of the original "Dear Boss" missive, the one that many people believe has the greatest claim to having been sent by the murderer is the "From Hell" letter that was sent to Mr. George Lusk.
On the 10th of September, 1888, two days after the murder of Annie Chapman, a group of local businessmen and tradesmen had got together and formed the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, with the intention of supplementing the police presence on the streets of the East End of London. They met at the premises of their treasurer, Joseph Aarons, proprietor of the Crown pub on Mile End Road. At their inaugural meeting, they appointed local builder and decorator George Lusk to be their Chairman and President.
Over the next few weeks, George Lusk petitioned the Home Secretary, Sir Henry Matthews, urging him to sanction on official reward for information that might lead to the apprehension of the Whitechapel murder. His entreaties, however, consistently met with official rejections.
But, his battle with the Government was covered extensively by the newspapers, and, as a consequence, his name appeared in the papers on a daily basis throughout the first two weeks of October, 1888.
As a result, he attracted the attention of several unsavoury characters and by the 10th of October he was being stalked by some of these.
Once again, the newspapers gave maximum coverage to Mr Lusk's problems with these stalkers, and this brought him to the attention of a Jack the Ripper letters writer, and he too began to receive letters from Jack the Ripper.
Then, on the evening of Tuesday, 16th October, a small package was delivered to his house in Alderney Road, Mile End. Inside was a letter addressed "From Hell" and wrapped inside it was a portion of kidney, which, on being examined by several doctors, was declared to be a portion of human kidney,
The letter's author, claimed that the kidney was part of the kidney that had been removed from Catherine Eddowes, who had been murdered in Mitre Square in the early hours of the 30th of September, 1888.
In this video Richard Jones looks at the circumstances behind the receipt of the kidney by George Lusk, and presents the case both for and against its having been sent by the murderer.
- published: 13 Jun 2021
- views: 52706
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Jack The Ripper an George Lusk | LETTERS OF NOTE - BRIEFE, DIE DIE WELT BEDEUTEN | Shaun Usher
Letters of Note ist nicht einfach nur ein Sammelwerk vieler Briefe aus verschiedenen Epochen der Geschichte, sondern konfrontiert den Leser mit aller Verrückthe...
Letters of Note ist nicht einfach nur ein Sammelwerk vieler Briefe aus verschiedenen Epochen der Geschichte, sondern konfrontiert den Leser mit aller Verrücktheit, dem Humor, den Nöten und Sorgen sowie aufmunternden und bewegenden Worten berühmter und bedeutender Persönlichkeiten, darunter viele Schriftsteller, Schauspieler, Designer, Künstler und Politiker. Ein jeder Brief ist nicht nur ein persönliches Statement, sondern beinhaltet auch ein Stückweit eine Form der Selbstoffenbarung des Verfassers. Shaun Ushers Sammelwerk ist ein emotionsgeladenes Kraftpaket und gibt uns authentische Einblicke in sehr private Lebenssituationen, die dem Leser allesamt ungeschönt, unverändert und zugleich zutiefst ehrlich präsentiert werden. Letters of Note erhält zurecht den Titel "Briefe, die die Welt bedeuten". Eine fantastische, anregende und zugleich inspirierende Recherche durch die Geschichte.
Viel Spaß beim Hören!
Ihr habt den Kanal noch nicht abonniert?!
Dann holt das Versäumnis jetzt schnell nach und klickt aufs Abo!
Los geht´s!
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Sprecher: Kai Schröder
#hörbuch
#lettersofnote
#heyne
#audiobook
#klassiker
#aliens
#jamescameron
#zitate
#giger
#hrgiger
#zitatesprüche
#drama
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#blacktivity
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#shaunusher
https://wn.com/Jack_The_Ripper_An_George_Lusk_|_Letters_Of_Note_Briefe,_Die_Die_Welt_Bedeuten_|_Shaun_Usher
Letters of Note ist nicht einfach nur ein Sammelwerk vieler Briefe aus verschiedenen Epochen der Geschichte, sondern konfrontiert den Leser mit aller Verrücktheit, dem Humor, den Nöten und Sorgen sowie aufmunternden und bewegenden Worten berühmter und bedeutender Persönlichkeiten, darunter viele Schriftsteller, Schauspieler, Designer, Künstler und Politiker. Ein jeder Brief ist nicht nur ein persönliches Statement, sondern beinhaltet auch ein Stückweit eine Form der Selbstoffenbarung des Verfassers. Shaun Ushers Sammelwerk ist ein emotionsgeladenes Kraftpaket und gibt uns authentische Einblicke in sehr private Lebenssituationen, die dem Leser allesamt ungeschönt, unverändert und zugleich zutiefst ehrlich präsentiert werden. Letters of Note erhält zurecht den Titel "Briefe, die die Welt bedeuten". Eine fantastische, anregende und zugleich inspirierende Recherche durch die Geschichte.
Viel Spaß beim Hören!
Ihr habt den Kanal noch nicht abonniert?!
Dann holt das Versäumnis jetzt schnell nach und klickt aufs Abo!
Los geht´s!
Weitere Design und Media Werke im Portfolio auf auf https://blacktivity-ks.com
Sprecher: Kai Schröder
#hörbuch
#lettersofnote
#heyne
#audiobook
#klassiker
#aliens
#jamescameron
#zitate
#giger
#hrgiger
#zitatesprüche
#drama
#briefe
#letters
#blacktivity
#lesung
#shaunusher
- published: 03 Jul 2022
- views: 317
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Jack The Ripper - The "From Hell" Letter
The "From Hell" Letter (also known as the "Lusk letter") was a letter sent alongside half of a preserved human kidney to the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilan...
The "From Hell" Letter (also known as the "Lusk letter") was a letter sent alongside half of a preserved human kidney to the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, George Lusk, in October 1888.[3] The author of this letter claimed to be the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who had murdered and mutilated at least four women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London in the two months prior to Lusk receiving this letter, and whose vigilance committee Lusk led in community efforts to assist police in efforts to identify and apprehend the perpetrator.
https://wn.com/Jack_The_Ripper_The_From_Hell_Letter
The "From Hell" Letter (also known as the "Lusk letter") was a letter sent alongside half of a preserved human kidney to the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, George Lusk, in October 1888.[3] The author of this letter claimed to be the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who had murdered and mutilated at least four women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London in the two months prior to Lusk receiving this letter, and whose vigilance committee Lusk led in community efforts to assist police in efforts to identify and apprehend the perpetrator.
- published: 24 May 2021
- views: 733
46:17
Jack the Ripper Whitechapel murderer 1888
An in depth documentary about Jack the Ripper the Whitechapel murderer. With great film footage and photographs of the time. Who was he?
An in depth documentary about Jack the Ripper the Whitechapel murderer. With great film footage and photographs of the time. Who was he?
https://wn.com/Jack_The_Ripper_Whitechapel_Murderer_1888
An in depth documentary about Jack the Ripper the Whitechapel murderer. With great film footage and photographs of the time. Who was he?
- published: 07 Oct 2022
- views: 5163
23:18
Jack the Ripper: The Killer from Hell
15% off a fantastic Vincero watch: Use the code "biographics" @ https://vincerowatches.com/biographics
You can subscribe to the brand new Casual Criminalist p...
15% off a fantastic Vincero watch: Use the code "biographics" @ https://vincerowatches.com/biographics
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Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris
Business inquiries to
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→ Subscribe for new videos four times per week.
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Our Newest Channel about Interesting Places: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw
Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Radu Alexander
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris
Business inquiries to
[email protected]
Other Biographics Videos:
Frida Kahlo: World–Renowned Artist Who Overcame Polio
https://youtu.be/FuhCy01YU3E
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https://youtu.be/gjGLD8bx7Qo
- published: 18 Nov 2019
- views: 1878774
0:27
Name this tune George Lusk at MFA 5 7 22
Please Subscribe, Like and Share our Youtube channel: Bob's Barn Jams.
George Lusk, at the Jamboree at Hopkins , MI. This was held at Piki's Cafe. There wer...
Please Subscribe, Like and Share our Youtube channel: Bob's Barn Jams.
George Lusk, at the Jamboree at Hopkins , MI. This was held at Piki's Cafe. There were 21 musicians plus the audience in attendance. , including 12 fiddlers. The next MFA sanctioned jam is at the Fiddlers and traditional Music Convention at Hillsdale, MI Aug 12-13, 2022.
MFA President: Bob Warner,
[email protected]
Secretary: Judy Moore,
[email protected]
www.michiganfiddlers.com
https://wn.com/Name_This_Tune_George_Lusk_At_Mfa_5_7_22
Please Subscribe, Like and Share our Youtube channel: Bob's Barn Jams.
George Lusk, at the Jamboree at Hopkins , MI. This was held at Piki's Cafe. There were 21 musicians plus the audience in attendance. , including 12 fiddlers. The next MFA sanctioned jam is at the Fiddlers and traditional Music Convention at Hillsdale, MI Aug 12-13, 2022.
MFA President: Bob Warner,
[email protected]
Secretary: Judy Moore,
[email protected]
www.michiganfiddlers.com
- published: 08 May 2022
- views: 13
12:19
George Lusk 6.4.2014 Part 1
For Part 2 click here: http://youtu.be/kjs-H56FXyk
George Lusk is a comedy duo from the state of Texas. Comprised of Caleb George and Matt Lusk, the two met a...
For Part 2 click here: http://youtu.be/kjs-H56FXyk
George Lusk is a comedy duo from the state of Texas. Comprised of Caleb George and Matt Lusk, the two met at the University of Houston in the Fall of 2005. They started the college improv troupe Scatter! together in 2007 and have been doing improv together for over seven years.
Caleb George hails from Arlington, Texas but currently lives in Chicago. He attended the University of Houston where he studied Theatre and Film.There he started the improv troupe Scatter! that went on to win the Southwest Regional of the College Improv Tournament and compete in Nationals. In Houston, he joined the ComedySportz Houston ensemble for four years until his move to Chicago in 2010. Caleb is a part of several wonderful teams in Chi-town including: HitchCocktails: An Improvised Drinking Show at The Annoyance, Thirsty: The Premier Improv Drinking Party at the Apollo Theatre, Chicago Improv League's d'Hôtél Winñetkå, and iO's Harold team Apollo. Caleb is the Training Center Manager and ensemble member at ComedySportz Chicago.
Matt Lusk is an improvisor and comedian from Houston, Texas. He played in the Comedysportz Houston Ensemble for 5 years, the Comedysportz Los Angeles Ensemble for 2 years and is now super stoked to be a part of Comedysportz here in the greatest city of all...Chicago.
Visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeLuskComedy
https://wn.com/George_Lusk_6.4.2014_Part_1
For Part 2 click here: http://youtu.be/kjs-H56FXyk
George Lusk is a comedy duo from the state of Texas. Comprised of Caleb George and Matt Lusk, the two met at the University of Houston in the Fall of 2005. They started the college improv troupe Scatter! together in 2007 and have been doing improv together for over seven years.
Caleb George hails from Arlington, Texas but currently lives in Chicago. He attended the University of Houston where he studied Theatre and Film.There he started the improv troupe Scatter! that went on to win the Southwest Regional of the College Improv Tournament and compete in Nationals. In Houston, he joined the ComedySportz Houston ensemble for four years until his move to Chicago in 2010. Caleb is a part of several wonderful teams in Chi-town including: HitchCocktails: An Improvised Drinking Show at The Annoyance, Thirsty: The Premier Improv Drinking Party at the Apollo Theatre, Chicago Improv League's d'Hôtél Winñetkå, and iO's Harold team Apollo. Caleb is the Training Center Manager and ensemble member at ComedySportz Chicago.
Matt Lusk is an improvisor and comedian from Houston, Texas. He played in the Comedysportz Houston Ensemble for 5 years, the Comedysportz Los Angeles Ensemble for 2 years and is now super stoked to be a part of Comedysportz here in the greatest city of all...Chicago.
Visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeLuskComedy
- published: 10 Jun 2014
- views: 238
25:26
Yours Truly Jack The Ripper - The Dear Boss Letter.
A question that we often get asked on the Jack the Ripper tour is, where did the name Jack the Ripper come from? In this video we take a look at where the name ...
A question that we often get asked on the Jack the Ripper tour is, where did the name Jack the Ripper come from? In this video we take a look at where the name came from and at how, once the name had caught the public imagination, the Whitechapel murders quickly gained an unparalleled level of notoriety.
The video begins by detailing how it was detailed in the newspapers in mid-October that the police were looking into the provenance of over 700 letters that purported to have been written by the unknown miscreant who was carrying out the murders in the East End of London.
One of the earliest of these letters was sent to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, on the 24th of September, 1888, and in it, the supposed perpetrator of Annie Chapman's murder claimed to be in "misery with nightmare."
The police were used to receiving letters such as this in high profile cases, and so they were quick to dismiss the communication as what it undoubtedly was - a hoax.
But, a few days later, on the 27th of September, 1888, a similar letter turned up at the Central News Agency at 5 New Bridge Street in the City of London. It was addressed to the "Boss", and Again, the author claimed to be the Whitechapel murderer. He boasted in gloating detail about the crimes he had committed and promised that in his next murder he would clip the victim's ears off and send them to the police officers, whilst also stating that he wanted to get to work right away if he got the chance.
The Central News passed the letter to the Metropolitan Police on the 29th of September, 1888, and, within 24 hours, the killer carried out two murders - those of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. The fact that the killer had, indeed, got to work right away, and had, in the case of Catherine Eddowes, cut through her right ear lobe, meant that the police had little choice than to take the Dear Boss missive seriously, and so, in early October, 1888, they made the letter public.
The name "Jack the Ripper" caught on immediately, and, suddenly, the police investigation into the Whitechapel murders became bogged down by a tidal wave of similar letters purporting to have come from "Jack the Ripper."
In the video we reveal who the police believed wrote the original Jack the Ripper letter, and take a look at some of the imitators who wrote other letters.
https://wn.com/Yours_Truly_Jack_The_Ripper_The_Dear_Boss_Letter.
A question that we often get asked on the Jack the Ripper tour is, where did the name Jack the Ripper come from? In this video we take a look at where the name came from and at how, once the name had caught the public imagination, the Whitechapel murders quickly gained an unparalleled level of notoriety.
The video begins by detailing how it was detailed in the newspapers in mid-October that the police were looking into the provenance of over 700 letters that purported to have been written by the unknown miscreant who was carrying out the murders in the East End of London.
One of the earliest of these letters was sent to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, on the 24th of September, 1888, and in it, the supposed perpetrator of Annie Chapman's murder claimed to be in "misery with nightmare."
The police were used to receiving letters such as this in high profile cases, and so they were quick to dismiss the communication as what it undoubtedly was - a hoax.
But, a few days later, on the 27th of September, 1888, a similar letter turned up at the Central News Agency at 5 New Bridge Street in the City of London. It was addressed to the "Boss", and Again, the author claimed to be the Whitechapel murderer. He boasted in gloating detail about the crimes he had committed and promised that in his next murder he would clip the victim's ears off and send them to the police officers, whilst also stating that he wanted to get to work right away if he got the chance.
The Central News passed the letter to the Metropolitan Police on the 29th of September, 1888, and, within 24 hours, the killer carried out two murders - those of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. The fact that the killer had, indeed, got to work right away, and had, in the case of Catherine Eddowes, cut through her right ear lobe, meant that the police had little choice than to take the Dear Boss missive seriously, and so, in early October, 1888, they made the letter public.
The name "Jack the Ripper" caught on immediately, and, suddenly, the police investigation into the Whitechapel murders became bogged down by a tidal wave of similar letters purporting to have come from "Jack the Ripper."
In the video we reveal who the police believed wrote the original Jack the Ripper letter, and take a look at some of the imitators who wrote other letters.
- published: 30 May 2021
- views: 45845