The victim lay facedown, with a sweating forehead pressed fearfully into the pillow, silently praying the noises would just go away. Suddenly the victim found himself straddled and pinned to the bed. He was unable to scream for help due to the pressure of the handle of a pick-axe against his throat, preventing any breath from escaping, much less any sound. The victim struggled beneath the weight of the assailant.
The scant light from the sodium-arc street light. It made visibility extremely bad, so the murders would have been harder to witness. Most turned to alcohol. The people out at the time of the murder would have been tramps and drunks, not reliable witnesses. The East End streets were maze-like, and easy to escape from. These were a few of the problems the police encountered. Jack the Ripper was extremely clever to be able to evade the police the whole period in which he committed his murders.
He chose different locations for …show more content… Theories were on whom the murderer might be, causing tension in the Whitechapel area and creating more racial hatred.
The police had only just been set up when the murders occurred, so had no previous experience. The only way to prove someone committed a murder was to catch them in the act or get a confession. Though they increased the number of officers, they only ever came across the bodies, warm. They were never able to catch him. Despite macabre clues left at the crime scene, the identity of Jack the Ripper — the primal, prototype serial killer — was never uncovered. Among the main challenges for police officers investigating the Jack the Ripper murders were the conditions in the East End of London at the time.
In Spitalfields, the centre of the Ripper murders, there was gross overcrowding. In London as a whole, there were 50 people per acre. In Spitalfields, this number rose to an astonishing people per acre. Slums were being cleared, new businesses were being created, all forcing people into smaller and ever more cramped lodgings. People slept seven, eight or nine to a room. In the casual lodging houses, up to 80 people were crammed together into one dormitory. In this foetid landscape, lit only with dim gaslights, a serial killer could lurk unnoticed, mingling with the crowds.
In our modern world of forensic science and DNA evidence, it can be hard to imagine the difficulties of the Ripper police investigation. Fingerprinting, for example, was known but not used in policing until the first fingerprint-generated conviction in One of the most chilling of all the Ripper murders was that of Catherine Eddowes.
Her body was discovered in Mitre Square, near the eastern boundary of the City of London. Her throat had been slashed. Her face was disfigured. The shawl was later analysed by Dr Jari Louhelainen of Liverpool John Moores University in , who found evidence of split body parts consistent with human kidney removal. Louhelainen also found that mitochondrial DNA taken from the shawl matched that of direct descendants of both Catherine Eddowes and Aaron Kosminski.
Yet another Jack the Ripper wild goose chase. The police were unable to catch Jack The Ripper and solve the mystery of the Whit Chapel murders because of several reasons.
The first reason is the police themselves. In London, there were two police forces. The Metropolitan police and the City Of London police. The murders took place in both of the jurisdictions. The police forces each had separate investigations going on and they did not share evidence or information with each other.
This hampered their investigations because a vital clue being held by one police force may have linked in with evidence …show more content… Vital clues that could have led to the capture of Jack The Ripper were overlooked.
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