Written by: Yawat Malla - 24037, Grade XI
Posted on: 04 July, 2022
Murder, genocide, and war are not unfamiliar topics to human beings ever since the origin of civilization. Generally, murderers are driven by their feelings of hatred, greed, and anger or by their self-designated sense of justice or injustice or even for revenge. Generally, murderers commit such crimes in response to the physical or emotional damage dealt with them by their victims, but at certain times, some murderers commit their crimes in such a way they almost seem passionate about turning people inside out. The reason for this behavior of people is considered to be some sort of abnormal psychological satisfaction. These kinds of dreadful psychopaths kill their victims in a specific pattern and by a particular procedure. Turning back the pages of history, there are several names that have gained an astonishing amount of popularity for their merciless yet unsubstantiated killings, which sends shivers down the spines of the listener or observer yet finding it unusually astonishing. Jack the Ripper is even more popular among them, whose true identity has yet to be revealed, even after a couple of centuries.
Jack the Ripper, the ghost and the devil, is the dreadful villain of many western stories, the ultimate case for many detectives, and a fascinating tale for many mystery lovers. Ever since the murder of his first victim in the late 19th century, his popularity has only skyrocketed and he has been the ideal for many criminals. This unidentified killer crept into the slums and improvised districts of East End London in the late 19th century usually at night, whose victims were mostly female prostitutes. He mercilessly mutilated the abdominals of his victims after opening up their throats. It is said that every cut he made in the victim’s body and every injury he dealt with his victim was convincing and frighteningly meaningful and he didn’t leave a strand of hair as evidence. Records say that he had such excellence in mutilating the organs of his victims that the investigators back then were almost sure that whomever they were seeking was an expert in the medical field and had detailed knowledge of human anatomy. But unfortunately, the investigators were not able to track the killer down and more women fell victims to his crimes.
During his lifetime, it is believed that at least 5 women fell victims to Ripper, but the number may be even greater considering the unreliability of records in the past. Investigators consider his first-ever unfortunate victim to be Mary An Nichols who was found murdered and mutilated in the city’s Whitechapel district. After the first case, the murders continued for several more months and the whole of London was left in fear of the mystery murderer.
After days and nights of investigation of the case, the investigators finally narrowed down the list of suspects to a number of four. Charles Cross, Joseph Barnett, Aron Kosminski, and Francis Tumblety were the primary suspects of being the infamous murderer. It was impossible for the police to identify a particular individual as the murderer because there was no evidence backing them up. Ultimately, the identity of Jack turned out to be a game of who’s who and the case eventually faded after the murder of the final victim, Mary Jane Kelly. The case was lost in the files of East London but gained massive popularity all around the world astonishing even modern-day detectives and investigators.
Jack may have gained such massive success mainly due to the state of anarchy in the district of Whitechapel, and due to the absence of modern technology such as DNA testing due to which we can almost confirm that there will never be the emergence of another Jack the Ripper since the number and intelligence of the goodwill simply outnumber the number of loathsome murderers.
