Whitechapel 3 key info

What reports did police follow up on?

• Manchester guardian suggested it was “ Leather Apron”- disproved by alibis

How many lines of enquiry did police follow up on?

• 300 lines of enquiry

• Visits to pawnbrokers to track down rings from Annie Chapman’s fingers

Increased police presence

• questioned over 2000 residents

• distributed over 80,000 handbills

• Neighbouring police searched docks

Sketches and photographs

• Sketches made of Catherine Eddowes

• Photographs taken of Mary Kelly

What evidence did Rees Llewellyn give?

• Cut marks= victim was left handed

What evidence did coroners give?

• Dr Wynne Baxter suggested Ripper had surgical knowledge as womb of Annie Chapman removed intact

  • Doubt after Catherine Eddowes body found- badly mutilated

Who did criminal profiling?

• Dr Thomas Bond after murder of Mary Kelly

How many new inspectors in 1888?

20

How many suspects and witnesses interviewed?

2,000

How many hoax letters ( Ripper Letters)?

• 300

How many victims did the newspapers report by end of 1888?

• 11

Who ordered what to be scrubbed away?

• Comissioner Warren

• Message on the wall (Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing)

When was the Whitechapel ‘Vigilance Committee’?

10 September 1888

Who led the committee?

George Lusk