4th victim Flashcards
name
Catherine Eddies ‘Kate Kelly’
Date:
30th September
timeline
the night before her death she was taken into police custody and detained until 1am (she was drunk and singing)
1;35am- a group of men see her taking to a man at the corner of Duke st and Church passage
1;45 approximately- Pc Edward Watkins discovers body in Mitre square
injuries
throat cut ears cut disfiguration to face handkerchief around throat intestines on shoulder flaps of skin all over face abdomen slit and stabbed kidney removed deep v's in check bruises on hand parts of womb removed tip of nose sliced off earlobes sliced
Mitre square
only had 3 exits and only one wasn’t watched by Police
Clue:
At about 3am that day a blood stained fragment of her apron was found lying in the passage of a doorway on Goulston street Whitechapel
At 2;20 there was no apron
the apron
was torn off of Eddows to carry the parts of body he cut off/out
covered in blood and faeces
evidence blade of knife had been wiped on it
Goulston street graffito
Found above the bloody apron in the doorway
shows he might of lived in area
written in white chalk
anti-semitism had surfaced un the wake of the leather apron scare
people commented it looked faded might have been there for a while
the building was mostly jewish people
what did the graffiti say
“The juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing”
when releasing info they erased ‘jukes are’ to stop a riot
The ‘letter from hell’
On october 16th a parcel containing half a human kidney was accompanied by a note
was received by the whitechapel vigilante committee
jack claimed to eat the other kidney
unique handwriting
left unsigned
kidney was a females
it resulted in copy cats- was it even real?
characteristics:
prostitute, woman, drinking problem, financial struggle, strained relationship with children, intelligent, fierce temper, aways singing
theories
nohing difffernet to other theories- but made people think it was more than one person due to the double event being so close together
