1st victim

Question 1

name

Answer 1

Mary Ann Nichols “polly”

Question 2

occupation

Answer 2

prostitute

Question 3

date of murder

Answer 3

30th August

Question 4

injuries

Answer 4

throat slit left to right
tongue laceration
abdomen mutilated
several incisions across the abdomen

Question 5

timeline of death

Answer 5

11pm last seen
12;30 am: returns home
shadwell dock fire
2:30am Polly seen drunk and trying to find another client
3;30 am-killed
3:40 am body discovered

Question 6

other details

Answer 6

scary level of casualness
skirt was raised
nightime
no screaming or commotion heard
nothing suspicious before murder

Question 7

murderer:

Answer 7

most likely left handed
long bladed knife used
a lot of info about human body
as if she was cleaned up

Question 8

theories:

Answer 8

gang attack
one person
more than 1 person
butcher
doctor
surgeon
leather apron

Question 9

Leather apron

Answer 9

demanded money from prostitutes and beat up those who refused
known to be abusive to prostitutes
leather aprons used at slaughterhouse

Question 10

John Pizer

Answer 10

leather apron
sinister character
wore deer stalker hat
threatened to rip people apart if people didn’t give him money
pulled out knife
was dismissed as suspect for jack the ripper as he had alibis and there was no solid evidence

Question 11

Charles cross

Answer 11

found polly or was this a story he just told the police,
could have pretended to throw police of track
witness claims they saw him trying to hide some of the wound
removalist- moved around apt
always around the areas of the murders

Question 12

characteristics

Answer 12

poor, desperate to find a job, alcoholic, divorced, lived alone, prostitute, woman, depressive, dissolute, clean, kept to herself