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Jack the Ripper Coursework Assignment 1. from source A, I can learn that the murder of Polly Nicholls was not a murder for profit. The fact that the killer used an "excess of effort" indicates to me that the murder was premeditated and was carried out for pleasure. The murder was not done to steal from the victim. Also, the killer may have brought along equipment to aid in whatever perverse fantasies he wanted to carry out. Again the fact that "no adequate motive can be traced" backs up my point that there obviously wasn't anything missing from the body. Otherwise the authorities would have thought the motive as being theft. Also, because the victim (Polly Nicholls) had been "the poorest of the poor" (a prostitute) it meant again that the killer wasn't doing it for profit. In fact this actually tells me that the killer was killing victims that were...

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