"I really didn't expect it to be Jack the Ripper," Fang Yu's expression was serious, Jack the Ripper, it was almost a legend, but he didn't expect that this legend really appeared in front of him.

The legend about Jack the Ripper can almost be said to be a household name, and about the legend of Jack the Ripper, Fang Yu thought of a lot with a slight use of his brain.

After the Mary Carey case, Jack the Ripper seemed to have disappeared, and the same modus operandi was not seen in London for several years. An analysis of this chain of cases reveals many of the following common characteristics: 1. All the victims were cheap prostitutes at the bottom of society, with no permanent residence except for Mary Carey.

2. Most of the victims were married and had children, and later left their families and moved into the East End, and all of them cohabited.

3. All victims have moderate to severe alcohol problems;

4. With the exception of Mary Carey, the deceased in all the other murders were seen moving in the streets an hour or two before their bodies were found, and were all drunk. (On the night of the incident, Kethalin Ai Dao was detained for drunken trouble, and was released from the police station at 1:45 a.m., and his body was found on the street at 1:45 a.m.)

5. Except for the Mary Carey case, where a neighbor heard a woman crying for help at about 3 a.m., the rest of the murders seemed to be silent when they occurred, although they were not far from the main thoroughfares and there were many homes nearby.

6. The police determined that none of the deceased showed signs of strong struggle before their deaths.

7. Thirty minutes to two hours before each homicide, witnesses witnessed the deceased conversing with a sturdy, dignified-looking, hat-wearing man in his thirties.

At that time, the police, who had invested a lot of manpower, were deeply powerless in this series of murders in which the motive was unknown, the crime was not traced, and the only eyewitness testimony was often contradictory. At that time, fingerprints had not yet been used in case handling, forensic science was rather crude, and the police who followed the routine of handling cases were not even sure what class should be the focus of their investigations (first confirming the class affiliation of suspects is a traditional model of handling cases in a society with clear classes). In the face of this unprecedented hot potato, the police's ability to handle cases has been criticized, and even Queen Victoria has questioned the efficiency of the police's handling of cases, leading to changes in the top management of the police station. After the media fever subsided, the police decided to stop the formal investigation into the serial murders in Whitechapel in 1*2 (Note 2).

Who is Jack the Ripper?

After the serial killings in Whitechapel, the police did not make progress in handling the case, and local residents living in fear shouted at the crowd to be taken to the police station when they encountered men with slightly suspicious appearances, but most of these so-called suspects were immediately repatriated by the police after interrogation. After several murders, the forensic autopsy concluded that the killer must have knowledge of anatomy, based on the knife technique and the time of the crime, and Marianne's body was located 100 yards away from the sprawling building of the Royal London Hospital, so there were rumors that the killer might have been a nearby doctor, and several local doctors were even kept in plainclothes police custody for a long time. As a result, until the recent film, Jack the Ripper was depicted as a mysterious man in black, holding a surgical instrument in one hand, walking in the foggy streets of the East Side in pitch black.

There was also a chauvinistic belief that the brutal and perverted Jack the Ripper must not be a native of England, so the suspects pointed the finger at the immigrants. Due to the anti-Semitic sentiments of the East Side residents at the time, the most common suspects among the outsiders were the Jewish immigrants who lived in the East Side at that time. In addition, it was rumored that a Russian Anarchy had emigrated to Paris in the 1870s, and immediately went insane, murdered several prostitutes, and was imprisoned in a mental hospital.

After the First World War, books on Jack the Ripper began to appear in Britain (the first being Leonardmatters' ThemysteryofJacktheripper, published in 1929). Since then, the craze for researching and trying to figure out who Jack the Ripper is, and even the terms "ripperology" and "ripperologist" have appeared, and the publication of related books has been proliferated. These studies have identified dozens of suspicious "jacks", but the vast majority of claims are really speculations with very little evidence. Among them, the "royal conspiracy theory", which has become the habit of some modern British reasoning, involves Duke Cleine (Duke of Clarence, who may have become the emperor but died of influenza in 1893; rumored to have secretly married and had children with a low-level social painting model, and the serial murders were made by members of the secret Freemasons led by a nobleman to cover up this fact), and many people still believe that Buckingham Palace is more or less related to Jack the Ripper.

Could Jack be a midwife?

Conan Doyle, who began composing the Sherlock Holmes series of stories shortly before the murder, claimed that according to his Sherlock Holmes-style reasoning, the murderer was a man disguised as a woman to avoid people's attention. This relationship with this woman has later developed into another theory, which is that Jack the Ripper may have been a midwife, and there is a theory that Jacktheripper was changed to a female jilltheripper.

In 1959, a secret police report that had been sealed for 65 years was made public, which also caused a ripple. In this 1*4 year report, the police chief affirmed that the three most likely suspects were a 31-year-old lawyer who committed suicide by throwing himself into the Thames at the end of 1888 (Note 3), a Polish Jew who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in March 18* and died shortly after (Note 4), and a slightly unhinged Eastern European immigrant who was habitual thieves. According to follow-up research, it is not impossible that these three people are Jack the Ripper, but the probability is not too high.

More recently, two more delicate books have proposed two different theories. In 1995, an American pointed out in his book Jack the Ripper (Note 5) that the key to the identification of the murderer was the last case of the successive homicides, because there were some characteristic discrepancies between this murder case as the final version of the disembowelment and the previous cases. As a result of the crackdown, the author concludes that the ripper was in fact Josephbart, the cohabitant of Mary Carey, who died in the last case. Joseph was a relatively well-paid fishmonger, but in July 1888 his fishmonger's license was revoked for stealing and made a living by doing odd jobs. According to the book's inference, Joseph first warned Mary by killing prostitutes in a row, and then angrily killed his girlfriend, who had been living with him for a year and a half, in the most brutal way.

Mystery Diary Authenticity

Another book, published in 1998 and more than 400 pages thick (Note 6), is related to the diary of Jack the Ripper (Note 7), which was discovered in Liverpool in the early 1990s. In April 1993, a local newspaper in Liverpool revealed that an old-fashioned leather diary with black and gold trim had been found, and the author of the diary described himself as the enigmatic Jack the Ripper. Influenced by the previous falsification of Hitler's diary, most ripper scientists at the time scoffed at the diary and immediately thought it was another forgery gimmick. But the filmmaker, Paul Feldman, spent five years reviewing all relevant archives and dating the diary, the first 48 pages of which had been cut off with a knife and only 63 pages scrawled, to the conclusion that neither he nor any other experts could deny the authenticity of the diary. What is particularly convincing is the fact that some of the statements in the diary were deliberately concealed by the police in order to handle the case after the crime, and these hidden parts were not made public until more than a decade ago - while the diary itself is believed to have been written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The diary was written by a Liverpool businessman named James Maybrick.

After 110 years, the mystery has finally been revealed? No, some Ripper scholars say that some of their questions have not been satisfactorily answered. The mystery of Jack the Ripper seems to have found its way to Liverpool, but like so many answers over the past 110 years, the answer is still not recognized as the correct one. Jack the Ripper, a mystery novel co-written by many people for more than 100 years, seems to continue to be written after all: to solve a classic mystery in the history of world crime, to find a mystery that may never be determined.

Fang Yu frowned slightly, Jack the Ripper, isn't he already dead, has he been resurrected from the dark world again?

Zhou Bin brutally and frantically provoked the police On September 29, 1888, at 1 a.m., "Jack the Ripper" shot again. In front of the Bona Street Migrant Worker Residence House in the Whitechapel District, a prostitute named Elizabeth Streder was killed and dumped in the middle of the road. While the police were still investigating the crime scene, another female corpse was found in the middle of the street in Maite Square, only ten minutes away from Berner Street, this female corpse was Catherine Edos, also a prostitute, not only was it disemboweled, but also the intestines were pulled out and wrapped around the neck, the liver was also pulled out, and a kidney was lost. In addition to this, the bodies were subjected to all sorts of horrific abuse, so much so that the police record was several pages long. Both murders took place in areas with a high number of pedestrians, and Maite Plaza was even visited by police and citizen patrols every 15 minutes.

On October 16, "Jack the Ripper" defiantly wrote a letter to the chairman of the citizens' "Vigilance Committee", writing: "Dear bosses, I keep hearing that the police have arrested me, but unfortunately this is not true. When I heard them say that the case was on the right track, I couldn't help but laugh. Especially the joke that I was wearing a leather apron really made me happy.

I hate prostitutes, and I won't stop cutting their chests until you can catch me. I didn't give the woman a chance to scream. How did you catch me? I love this job, and I'm going to keep doing it. You'll soon hear me doing funny little tricks. Isn't it fun that I'm going to cut off the women's ears and give them to the police next time? My knife is so sharp, so good, I want to get to work right away.

Good luck!

Your sincere Jack the Ripper I don't mind giving me my name to a parcel that you sent with your letter, containing half a kidney, and the murderer postscripted: "I would like to give half a kidney, because the other half has been fried and eaten by me." "The medical examiner identified the kidney as belonging to the victim Catherine, so the letter was confirmed to be from the murderer.

"Jack the Ripper" looks familiar with the Whitechapel district and doesn't take the police seriously at all. The Director of the National Police Agency, Sir Zarles Warren, is at a loss in the face of social pressure. A new bloody case 1 month later pushes the horror brought by "Jack the Ripper" to the top.

Mary Jane Kelly was a prominent prostitute in the Whitechapel district, who once made many powerful people fall under her pomegranate skirt, and she was in her prime of life, and she was originally a high-class prostitute in London's noble district, and for some reason came to the Whitechapel district, where "Jack the Ripper" often hunted.

On the evening of Nov. 9, Kelly was seen taking the arm of a burly, well-dressed man with a reddish-brown beard. As late as 1 a.m., Kelly's house was filled with singing and laughter. At 9 a.m. the next morning, when Kelly was usually at home, the landlord sent a servant to ask her for rent, but the servant knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no answer in the house. The strange maid thought that Kelly had deliberately left the door open to avoid rent, so he climbed into a trash can and peered through one of the skylights in the room. But when his gaze touched the scene in the house, he was distraught and rolled to the ground. He let out a scream that he had never seen in his life as he ran towards the police station, telling the police that unless it was a demon, a normal person would never do such a thing.

Kelly's house was as if it had been visited by a bloodthirsty beast, and there was a large patch of blood all over the room, and a piece of intestines hung on the wall in the center. The first policeman to enter the house vomited and ran out as soon as he opened the door, and when he entered again, the policemen all subconsciously drew crosses on their chests. This is the first time that "Jack the Ripper" has been spotted committing crimes indoors, and unlike committing crimes on the street, this time he has plenty of time to disembowel and disembowel, without worrying about being seen. Kelly's throat was cut like any other victim prostitute, and in addition to that, she was cut to the vertebrae, her entire body was mutilated, and Kelly's nose and ears were deliberately cut off, as the killer had foretold in the previous letter. The most appalling thing was that Kelly's heart was placed in the center of the table in the room, her kidneys and * were placed in symmetrical shapes on both sides, and the murderer also folded the clothes that Kelly had worn before his death and placed them neatly on the chair next to the table.

The coroner speculated that "Jack the Ripper" would have to spend at least two hours quietly and carefully picking up such a crime, because it took the medical examiner a full six hours to find and piece together the body pieces and restore them. This unprecedented bloody case was like a bombshell, arousing the anger of the whole British people, and Queen Victoria of England also personally inquired into the case, and issued three edicts in succession, demanding that the Prime Minister Lord Salisbury must arrest the murderer as soon as possible.

The policemen were like ants on a hot pot, trying their best to even send dozens of policewomen to disguise themselves as prostitutes and stand on the streets of Whitechapel District at night as bait. At that time, there was a popular legend that the eyes of the deceased could freeze the images they saw before they died, so the police removed all the retinas of several victims and took pictures to study them, but in the end they found nothing. The London police became synonymous with incompetence, and the head of the Metropolitan Police Department, Sir Charles Warren, had to resign even if he had the most cheeky face.

"Jack the Ripper" committed suicide?

Like a ghost hovering the foggy capital, "Jack the Ripper" has caused the entire inhabitants of London to be terrified, and people have become suspicious and have arranged various legends about him. "Jack the Ripper" kills prostitutes, and some people think that this "Ripper" is the embodiment of the hand of God, and he goes down to earth to punish those who are dirty, some think that "Jack the Ripper" himself is a policeman, others think that he is a priest, and some think that he is a doctor or a butcher.

At the beginning of the new year in 1889, the Metropolitan Police suddenly announced the termination of the investigation and the withdrawal of all police officers who patrolled the Whitechapel district intensively. The citizens panicked, and the "Vigilance Committee" questioned the police about this, and received an answer, "In the future, 'Jack the Ripper' will not pose any threat to you." Because he had committed suicide. The police ended their reply, refusing to reveal the name and identity of the killer to the public. After this, "Jack the Ripper" really did not appear again.

The mystery was eventually revealed by Melville Mark Nedton, who in 1889 succeeded Sir Warren, who had resigned, as the new Metropolitan Police Director. He was the one who ordered the case to be closed. All files relating to the case were locked in a safe in the Metropolitan Police and marked as not allowed to be opened until 1992.

After Sir Nedton's death, his family stumbled upon the name of the killer in his private notes, mentioning that the killer was Montague John Druith. He came from a wealthy family, attended Winchester School and Oxford University, and excelled in his studies and showed outstanding explosiveness when playing cricket. After graduating from law school in 1882, he was registered as a solicitor in the London Profession Firm. In 1888, at the age of 30, he abruptly gave up his lucrative career as a lawyer and became a superintendent at a private school.

It is said that Druitt wrote to the Metropolitan Police to declare his suicide, the font of the letter was quite similar to that of the murderer, and that Druitt was well-educated enough to write beautiful English poetry, that he suddenly changed his profession for unknown reasons, and that he had a place to stay near the Whitechapel district in London. He came from a family of doctors and knew some surgical techniques. More importantly, Druyt disappeared shortly after Jack the Ripper's last crime, and on 3 February 1889, a body was found in the River Thames in London, after which the Ripper never appeared again. As a result, the police determined that Druith was the real culprit. But the police's conclusion is based on reasoning, and there is too little real ironclad evidence, which may be the reason why the police keep the name of the real murderer secret.

Judging from the postcard sent by the "ripper", the murderer was psychologically a perverted repeat offender and was unlikely to commit suicide. Moreover, Druitt was seen in court as a defense lawyer after Kelly's murder and before his own suicide, which is obviously not quite the case if he was really the murderer. The reasons for the London police to close the case were difficult to convince the British public, and "Jack the Ripper" became a de facto unsolved case. The National Archives of England still has many original letters of intimidation written by Jack the Ripper to the police in the 19th century for visitors to visit. In 2006, when Professor Findley, an Australian expert in "molecular and forensic diagnostics", examined the letters, he found that the seal of one of the letters was adhered to the shriveled skin cells of the human body and a small trace of blood, which was most likely left by the "ripper" himself when he wrote the letter and stamped it. Fender used his own genetic analysis methods to analyze these residues, and then came to a shocking conclusion that "Jack the Ripper" was a woman!

"The story of history turned out to be true, but, to say that you are a woman," Fang Yu said.

"I'm a woman, yes, when I was alive, I was a woman, but now I'm resurrected, I'm not a man, and likewise, I'm not a woman," Jack the Ripper's face had an abrupt expression of comfort, the silver knife in his hand seemed to be looking at everyone with a smile, a strong murderous aura was spreading, the bow and crossbow in Wayne's hand was already pointed at him, but the bow and crossbow did not fire a crossbow, and almost everyone present was deterred by his murderous aura at that moment.

"You have been looking for me again, I know, now, I am here, the stories of history will eventually become dust, you are already dead in my eyes, before you die, you will not understand everything, I want you to be a dead man who knows nothing, along with peace, you all give me a death hand," His eyes flashed with a dazzling red glow, which was almost the color of blood, and even Wayne had a kind of fear from the bottom of his heart, the person in front of him was so terrifying that he could suppress their actions just by relying on his murderous aura.

"No matter how strong you are today, however, you still have to die, this is your fate, Jack the Ripper, you will eventually become history, the Ripper Jack in history is dead, he should not be resurrected, your resurrection is a provocation of the dark world to the human world," Fang Yu said lightly, the headmaster's soul-attracting lamp had been hung high in the sky, mixed with the bright moon, and the strong murderous aura gradually faded away.

"Not all darkness is evil, at least, I'm not," Vayne glowed black with a black glow from her body, and the crossbow bolts in her hand shimmered with dazzling silver light, she was the Dark Terminator