Mysterious+murders

== = = ==Another victim has now been found in Whitechapel in London’s East End. This fifth murder within a very short time is, like the others, identified as a poor prostitute. Police inspector Abberline tells that the police still haven’t found any suspects. Is this the work of the socalled ”Jack the Ripper”?==



Grotesque murders follow people in the narrow streets in Whitechapel, East London. Now the fifth body has been removed from a filthy room in a backstreet. This one is also identified as a prostitute. Witnesses claim to have seen her working in the streets with some of the other victims. The similarity of the murders makes the police think that they are accomplished by the same person. Unpleasant happenings are not unusual for the inhabitans in East End, but these attacks will make even the toughest nightwanderers look twice. Except from this one, which was found in a single room at Miller’s Court, off Dorset Street, all the bodies were found lying on the street, with the throat cut. Not that that is something extraordinary, but the faces and abdomens of the victims were heavily mutilated, and some of them even got internal organs removed. The mutilation of the faces made the work even more difficult for the police. Still, they have decided not to give it up, because this is so remarkable that it most likely will become history, says inspector Abberline. Even though the police department still won’t say too much about the murderer, or prospective murderers. The inhabitans of the Whitechapel-area have no doubts in this case. Many even abet that they have seen the murderer, who flagrantly shall be a man dressed in all fancy black, with a travelling cloak.

These grotesque murders has been going on since August. Some mystical letters sent to the police department, which was received in between September 27th and October 16th from a man called ”Jack the Ripper”, erases every bit of doubt about this being a cynical serial killer, a madman – at least with the common people. One of the letters contained a kidney. Inspector Abberline does not want to comment this case. ”As the conditions are at the moment, we do not dare to say too much. For all we know, he can be standing just around the corner reading this. And we do not want to spread too many rumours and cause panic among the people”.

Inspector Abberline hesitates when the mutilations of the victims are mentioned. ”Why it is done this way, we cannot say for sure. The cuts were made after the very killing. First the victims got their throats cut, and THEN they were mutilated. That is not very common, because wounds from stabbing is usually made to kill, and not after”, he tells us and reveals that because of this, they suspect the murders to be accomplished either for medical or ritual purposes. "The murderer is most likely to be a well-educated person. Not many knows where the liver is, and are able to remove this in darkness without harming other intestines"

The police department will not say anything for sure yet, but in the streets there are no doubt about who’s the murderer; anywhere you ask, you will hear different varieties of the same story; The man who sends letters addressed in Hell is the very man who assaults poor women and removes their inner organs, even the heart of one of them, they say. Then their voice will drop to a whisper - as if the very walls are listening - when they utter the name you will hear in every dark alley : **//Jack the Ripper.//**