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 latter half of
1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings. The legends surrounding the Ripper murders have become a combination of genuine historical research,
conspiracy theory and
folklore. The lack of a confirmed identity for the killer has allowed
Ripperologists — the term used within the field for the authors, historians and
amateur detectives who study the case — to accuse a wide variety of individuals of being the Ripper. Newspapers, whose circulation had been growing during this era, 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 Ripper, sometimes missing the murderer at his crime scenes by mere minutes.
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