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Despite extensive enquiries and several arrests, the culprit or culprits evaded capture, and the murders were never solved. The Whitechapel murders drew attention to the poor living conditions in the East End slums, which were subsequently improved. The enduring mystery of who committed the crimes has captured public imagination to the present day.
The Poison Murders of Jack the Ripper: His Final Crimes, Trial and Execution. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5178-4. Stubley, Peter (1 September 2012). 1888: London Murders in the Year of the Ripper. History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-8974-2. M.J. Trow : The Thames Torso Murders, 2011; R. Michael Gordon :The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London, 2015
Antisemitism, crime, nativism, racism, social disturbance, and severe deprivation influenced public perceptions that Whitechapel was a notorious den of immorality. [11] Such perceptions were strengthened in 1888 when the series of vicious and grotesque murders attributed to "Jack the Ripper" received unprecedented coverage in the media.
The murder of Julia Martha Thomas, dubbed the "Barnes Mystery" or the "Richmond Murder" by the press, was one of the most notorious crimes in the Victorian period of the United Kingdom. Thomas, a widow in her 50s who lived in Richmond , London , was murdered on 2 March 1879 by her maid Kate Webster, a 30-year-old Irishwoman with a history of theft.
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Two focused entirely on him: Rod Leith's The Prostitute Murders: The People vs. Richard Cottingham (Lyle Stuart Inc., 1983) and Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer (Netflix, 2021). He was also featured in a 2-hour special episode of People Magazine Investigates entitled “The Times Square Killer” (Investigation Discovery, 2023).
A man was indicted on multiple hate crime charges in connection with the punching of an Israeli tourist in Times Square in October after the attacker made antisemitic remarks, including, “Hamas ...
The Whitechapel murders were committed between April 1888 and February 1891 and comprised the murders of eleven women, including at least five - Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly - believed to be the work of the same killer, the notorious Jack the Ripper. None of the crimes were ever solved ...