jack the ripper time line

Easter Monday April 1888 Emma Smith, a local prostitute was attacked by a gang at the junction of Osborn Street and Brick Lane. Although she most certainly was not a victim of Jack the Ripper it was with this death that the police opened the file on the Whitechapel Murders, a file that enclosed the killings by Jack the Ripper

5 April 1888 Emma Smith dies of her injuries in the London Hospital.

7 August 1888 Martha Tabram, another common prostitute was found on a first floor landing of George Yard Buildings. She had been stabbed 39 times and two knives had been used to inflict the injuries she had sustained.

31 August 1888 At 3.40am the body of Mary or Polly Nichols was discovered in Bucks Row. She is considered by many to have been the first victim of Jack the Ripper.

8 September 1888 Annie Chapman, now acknowledged as Jack the Ripper’s second victim is murdered at between 5.30am and 6am.

10 September 1888- Mr George Lusk and a group of local business men form the Mile End Vigilance Committee, start to help police in their attempts to catch the killer. When the police arent getting anywhere they start to turn violent.

10 September 1888 John Pizer was arrested - the leather apron man!!

27 September 1888 A letter addressed to ‘Dear Boss” is delivered to the Central News Agency. It is signed JACK THE RIPPER he nicknamed himself and from that moment on thats what he was recognised as.

30 September 1888. The killer commits two murder in less than an hour. At 1am Elizabeth Strides body is discovered and at 1:45am Catharine Eddowes is found dead in Mitre Square in the City of London. This is where the police figured out they must be using a horse and carridge because there was no way in getting from the first murder scene to the second in less the an hour.

1st October 1888. The police release the Jack the Ripper letter and a legend is born.

4th of October 1888, a document or a jack the ripper letter was sent to MEPO saying that he was an American but in another letter he says that he is a poland jew.

8th of october 1888, another letter was sent by jack the ripper to MEPO on this document there were images and letter BLOOD at the top, in this letter he has average grammar skills, and you know he has local knowledge and know's his way around.

16 October 1888 . Mr George Lusk receives a letter addressed "FROM HELL" and containing half a kidney. Speculation if rife that it was taken from Catharine Eddowes.

17th of october 1888, a document adressed to MEPO saying " Dear sir i shall be in whitechapel on the 20th..." and in this letter he also makes a challenge to the police saying "catch me if you can"

19th of October 1888, a letter sent to Charles Warren.

21st October 1888. A ‘respectable’ woman aged 21 named Maria Coroner is charged in Bradford with sending letters signed Jack the Ripper. She is the only one of the hundreds of Jack the Ripper letter writers to be prosecuted.

29th of October 1888, a letter was sent to Dr Openshaw the pathological curator at london hospital, this letter has very bad grammer and you can bearly understand what he is saying. Wuth this letter he also left a kidney from one of his victims!

9th November 1888. 25 year Old Mary Kelly is murdered in Dorset Street Spitalfields. It is generally accepted that she was the last victim of Jack the Ripper.

and the jack the ripper timeline ends with the murder of Mary Kelly