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The Victims of Jack the Ripper

The most widely accepted list, referred to as the canonical five, includes the following five prostitutes (or presumed prostitute in Eddowes’ case) in the East End of London:

1. Mary Ann Nichols (maiden name Mary Ann Walker, nicknamed “Polly”), born on August 26, 1845, and killed on Friday, August 31, 1888. Nichols’ body was discovered at about 3:40 in the early morning on the ground in front of a gated stable entrance in Buck’s Row (since renamed Durward Street), a back street in Whitechapel two hundred yards from the London Hospital. 
2. Annie Chapman (maiden name Eliza Ann Smith, nicknamed “Dark Annie”), born in September 1841 and killed on Saturday, September 8, 1888. Chapman’s body was discovered about 6:00 in the morning lying on the ground near a doorway in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields.
3. Elizabeth Stride (maiden name Elisabeth Gustafsdotter, nicknamed “Long Liz”), born in Sweden on November 27, 1843, and killed on Sunday, September 30, 1888. Stride’s body was discovered close to 01:00 in the early morning, lying on the ground in Dutfield’s Yard, off Berner Street (since renamed Henriques Street) in Whitechapel.
4. Catherine Eddowes (used the aliases “Kate Conway” and “Mary Ann Kelly,” from the surnames of her two common-law husbands Thomas Conway and John Kelly), born on April 14, 1842, and killed on Sunday, September 30, 1888, on the same day as the previous victim, Elizabeth Stride. Ripperologists refer to this circumstance as the “double event”. Her body was found in Mitre Square, in the City of London.
5. Mary Jane Kelly (called herself “Marie Jeanette Kelly” after a trip to Paris, nicknamed “Ginger”), reportedly born in either the city of Limerick or County Limerick, Munster, Ireland ca. 1863 and killed on Friday, November 9, 1888. Kelly’s gruesomely mutilated body was discovered shortly after 10:45 am lying on the bed in the single room where she lived at 13 Miller’s Court, off Dorset Street, Spitalfields.

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(Source: fer1972)