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Case File No. 035 · PDF ebook · 29 pages

Jack the Ripper’s Last Victim

Mary Jane Kelly and the Door Nobody Opened

The 'Dear Boss' letter, the bloodhounds that never came, a one-day inquest, a hundred suspects, and the reporter who probably invented the name.

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Why it's worth it

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11 evidence exhibits
Real letters, police notices, cartoons and 1888 newspapers, shown large, with what to look for in each.
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2 maps drawn for this file
The five murder sites on the 1894 Ordnance Survey sheet, and Kelly's journey as she told it.
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6 stories the video skipped
The 'tame' Lord Mayor's Show, Kosminski's dog, Druitt's cricket alibi, the street that disappeared and more.
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The original words
The inquest of 12 November 1888 and the 'Dear Boss' letter, with plain-English notes.
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Printable replicas
Two Ripper dime novels of 1888–89, Punch's 'Nemesis of Neglect' and a Puck cover.
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Large-print edition included
Two PDFs, plus every source and image credit listed.

Inside this file

  • The case in one page, and a timeline from Limerick, c. 1863, to the 1931 confession
  • Exhibits: the 'Dear Boss' letter, the 'Saucy Jacky' postcard, 'From hell', the 1888 police notice, Punch's 'Blind Man's Buff', the bloodhound trial, the Goulston Street message, the Macnaghten memorandum and more
  • Original words: the 12 November 1888 inquest, and who really wrote 'Dear Boss'
  • Two maps drawn for this file: the canonical five on the 1894 Ordnance Survey sheet, and Mary Jane Kelly's road to Miller's Court
  • Persons of interest: Mary Jane Kelly, Joseph Barnett, Thomas Bowyer, George Hutchinson, Abberline, Warren, Dr Bond and Druitt
  • Myth vs. record: the signed letters, the bloodhounds, the surgeon, the royal plot, the 2014 DNA claim
  • Printable replicas: two 1888–89 Ripper dime novels, Punch and Puck
  • Visit it today, and case closed? Our verdict, with every source listed. No mortuary or crime-scene photographs.

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