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Jack the Ripper - How and why did he evade capture?  

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Jack the Ripper Throughout this essay I will discuss the many factors that contributed to the perpetrator responsible for the Whitechapel Murders to remain free. I will also discuss why the police were unable to catch the criminal who was responsible for these murders, also known as 'Jack the Ripper'. Some of the factors I will include are; The limitations and inefficiency of the police, the public, the media, the geographic area of Whitechapel and the 'Ripper' himself. Through the use of examining a number of sources, I will extract information and use this to back up my observations in order to come to a conclusion to why the police failed to grasp this notorious and twisted murderer. In order to establish a formal foreword, here is a definition taken from Wikipedia about the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders; "Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer...

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