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Jack The Ripper: Phantom of Death
Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in late 1888. The name originated in a letter sent to the London Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer. The victims were women earning income as prostitutes. Most victims' throats were slit, after which the bodies were mutilated. The removal of internal organs from three of the victims led some officials at the time of the murders to propose that the killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge. Newspapers, whose circulation had been growing during this era, bestowed widespread and enduring notoriety on the killer because of the savagery of the attacks and the failure of the police to capture the murderer. Because the killer's identity has never been confirmed, the legends surrounding the murders have become a combination of genuine historical research, folklore, and pseudohistory. Many authors, historians, and amateur detectives have proposed theories about the identity of the killer and his victims.
Aired: Jan 01, 2009 Genre: DocumentaryRating: 0 Country:Production:
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01: John Wayne Gacy: A Monster in Disguise02: Jeffrey Dahmer03: Ted Bundy04: Ed Gein05: Aileen Wuornos06: Gary Ridgeway07: Dennis Rader (BTK)08: Henry Lee Lucas09: David Berkowitz10: Albert Desalvo: The Boston Strangler11: Andrei Chikatilo: The Butcher of Rustov12: Andrew Cunanan: Murder on the Run13: Charles Manson14: Gary Gilmore15: Hitler And Stalin16: Jack The Ripper: Phantom of Death17: Joel Rifkin18: Moses Sithole: The South African Strangler19: Ottis Toole And Henry Lee Lucas20: Pedro Alonzo Lopez21: Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker22: Richard Speck23: The Green River Killer (Gary Ridgeway)24: The Manson Women25: Timothy Mcveigh: Soldier of Terror26: The Boston Strangler 227: Albert Fish28: Monster of Belgium