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Why did the Whitechapel murders attract so much attention in 1888?
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Why did the Whitechapel murders attract so much attention in 1888? In 1888 Jack the Ripper started a series of murders in Whitechapel. We found that all these murders were linked, not only were they all prostitutes but the mutilations done to them were horrific. The fact that they were all murder was bad enough but the horrific nature of them was unbelievable. For example Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols' throat was slit from ear to ear, her body was ripped open from thorax to the abdominal and after death she sustained other abdominal injuries. Jack the Ripper even took the skin off some of his victims. No one had ever heard anything like this before, the nature of these attacks was inhumanly and extremely grim. However, these attacks wouldn't have been as widely known f it hadn't been for the main way to get news round in those days, the press. The...
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