Jack the Ripper is an unidentified serial killer who attacked women in the late 1880s. One of the most disturbing aspects of the attacks, is that some of the murders were carried out in just ten minutes, in the pitch black night of London. A rhyme chanted by East End children summarizes the only thing we know for a fact about Jack the Ripper, that he’s dead.
Jack the Ripper’s dead
And lying in his bed
He cut his throat
With Sunlight soap
Jack the Ripper’s dead.
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