Whitechapel Murders Begin: Jack the Ripper Terror Starts
The first of eleven brutal murders of impoverished women began in London's Whitechapel district, launching a killing spree that would terrorize the East End and produce the enduring mystery of Jack the Ripper. The murders exposed the squalid conditions of Victorian London's poorest neighborhoods to horrified middle-class readers through sensational press coverage. Despite the largest police investigation in London's history to that point, the killer was never identified.
April 3, 1888
138 years ago
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