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Jack The Ripper Myths

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This is not a book about Jack the Ripper.
That would be an understandable misconception – his name is, after all, in the title, and multiple books claiming to be about the victims or other surrounding topics do indeed end up focusing on the Ripper himself. The Ripper’s identity is, after all, one of the great historical mysteries and the focus of over one hundred books. This is not one of them.
Although many pages have been devoted to concluding exactly how many women were killed by Jack the Ripper, the most commonly agreed-upon victims make up the so-called canonical five: Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth “Liz” Stride, Catherine “Kate” Eddowes, and Mary Jane (or Marie Jeanette) Kelly. These women were found murdered in the

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