e: investigative policing in whitechapel in the context of ripper murders

all the ripper murders took place in

1888

the 4 dates of the murdes were

31 august, 8 september, 30 september, 9 november

all the ripper murders took place in

1888

the 4 dates of the murdes were

31 august, 8 september, 30 september, 9 november

the order of the killings were

Mary Ann Nichols found in bucks row, Annie Chapman found in spitalfields, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Edwards, Mary Jane Kelley

………………… were assigned to the murders, to help …….

inspector frank abberline and his CID team, h division

the task of the police was made much harder by …………….. sent by men claiming to be the murderer. one letter called …… was reproduced in newspapers to try and ………….

more than 300 letters and postcards, ‘dear boss’ gain information about the author

the press were ……………. especially after the … and they made the investigation more difficult by ……

very critical of police methods, double event, publishing stories based on journalists’ guesswork and unreliable interviews with locals

with rising ……… huge number of cheap newspapers called …….. circulated with low ……..

literacy and cheaper newspapers, penny dreadfuls, journalistic standards

to solve this kind of crime there needed to be …….. between ………… and this …….

cooreration, met police, city of london police and scotland yard, did not always happen

an example of bad cooperation is when an important clue was discovered on …… and commissioner ……….

glouston street inside the boundaries of the city of london police area, warren ordered it to be washed off to stop the involvement of the city of london police

in the ripper murders they used evidence of ………….. as a local doctor suggested that the cut marks on one of the victims indicated …………….. which lead to

post mortems, the killer was left handed and has experience of dissection, the police making enquiries at slaughter houses and hospitals

police followed up leads from ……………….. for example a report in ………. suggested that the murder could be a …………

articles by investigative journalists, Manchester guardian, a local man nicknames ‘leather apron’

the follow up clues in ………….. such as …………………

the victims’ possesion, a fragment of an envelope found near Chapmans body that contained the seal of the royal sussex regiment

they also visited ……… believing that the murder must be …….

lunatic asylums, insane

they followed up on …….reports, such as …………. who argued the murderer must have considerable ………

coroners’ reports, Dr Wynne Baxter’s report, anatomical skill

they interviewed ……….. such as ….. who claimed to have seen a man talking to ……….

key witnesses, elizabeth long, chapman a few minutes before she was discovered dead

they set up ……….. to encourage poor people to …………….

soup kitchens, come forward by offering them a hot meal

as critisism mounted, they started conducting …………..

house-to-house searches and distributing 80,000 handbills

they had almost no …………..

scientific forensic techniques at their disposal

the failure to catch the ripper led to a ……. leading to the …………. where ……………….

review of police record-keeping, the adoption of the Bertillon system in 1894, measurements of suspects were takes along with their mugshots and the records were stored centrallyth

there is no evidence that the ………………… helped the …….

bertillion system, CID to catch criminals

after there ripper murders, there was also more ……… and the ………… started the process of replacing …….

awareness between poor living conditions and crime, houses of the working class act of 1890, slums with mass low-cost housing

the ………… gave more powers to ………… to improve ……

public health amendment act of 1890, local councils, toilets, rubbish collection and other sanitary services