![]() ![]() His death in 1886 was a death-blow to her will to live. Annie and her husband, while originally lower middle-class, took to drinking from the stresses around their children and separated after falling into poverty. Mother of three, one of whom was born crippled, another dead at the age of twelve in 1882. Annie Chapman, found at 6 AM, September 8, 1888, age 47. Polly was a homeless alcoholic during her last days and was last seen trying to secure money to pay for a bed at her lodging house. Separated from her husband, whom she left because of his affair during her fifth pregancy, Polly became caught in the downward spiral of drinking and prostitution. Mother of five, three of whom were grown at the time. While Jack the Ripper has gone down in history as the star of history's great whodunnit, few people remember the victims: -Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, found at 3:45 AM, August 31, 1888, age 43. There have been many theories as to who did this and there have been numerous urban legends (even the Royal Family was not spared the rumors), although most of these stories are certainly false. Contrary to the popular (romanticized) image of a black-caped figure in a top-hat, the victims were last seen with very nondescript, working-class men the Ripper would most certainly have been caught had he worn the cape and top-hat. ![]() Many women were forced to sell themselves as a sure way of supporting themselves and feeding their children, even if it meant going off to secluded nooks with six or seven strange (and potentially dangerous) men each day. 55% of children were dead before age five outhouses, clogged sewers, slaughterhouses, and horse-drawn buggies ensured that the filth and stench overcrowding in crumbling buildings and low job prospects ensured that whole families were homeless drinking and fights were rampant, and many people were missing teeth or had black eyes. By today's standards, the Ripper murders would barely make headlines a faceless lust killer murdering five streetwalkers in a huge slum that's already swarming with criminals and lowlifes. To this day, nobody knows the identity of the killer, since nobody saw or heard anything suspicious. The killer was given this nickname because a knife was used to cut the victims throats and mutilate their abdomens. The nickname given to an unknown serial killer who killed five women in the Whitechapel section of the East End of London from August 31 to November 9, 1888. ![]()
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