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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? My essay will include details on the Whitechapel murders and the ripper letters which will relate to why the Whitechapel murders attracted so much attention in 1888. The ripper murders were very popular at the time because no one had ever seen such gore from a murder. The way these murders were conducted was not ones of vicious stabbing and bloodshed but of dissection and precision. The public had never seen anything like this and it caused a spark which spread through the population of London. The murders of Mary Anne Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Kate Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly were all conducted in exactly the same way: the murder would ask for the prostitutes services, they'd lift up their skirts, he would grab them by the neck and strangle them until they went unconscious, he would then...
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