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Jack the Ripper was the pseudonym given to a serial killer who acted not identified in the district of Whitechapel in London in the second half of 1888. The name was taken from a letter sent to the Central News Agency in London by someone who claimed to be the criminal.

His victims were women who earned their living as prostitutes. Two of them had his throat cut and body mutilated. Theories suggest that, not to cause noise, the victims were first strangled, perhaps explaining the lack of blood at crime scenes. The removal of internal organs of three victims of the time led officers to believe that the killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge.

The newspapers, whose circulation grew considerably during that time, gave extensive coverage to the case because of the wild nature of the crimes and the failure of police to effect the capture of criminals - that became notorious precisely because they can get away with it.

Due to the mystery surrounding the killer has never been disclosed, the legends surrounding his crimes have become a complex tangle of genuine historical research, conspiracy theory and dubious folklore. Several authors, historians and amateur detectives had hypotheses about the identity of the killer and his victims.