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THE FIVE WOMEN 

Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols- death portrait (Wikipedia)

Annie Chapman- Wedding Photograph (Wikipedia)

Sketch- Catherine Eddowes- The Penny Illustrated Paper (Wikipedia)

Elizabeth Stride, death portrait (Wikipedia)

Sketch Mary Jane Kelly The Penny Illustrated Paper (Wikipedia)

London- Whitechapel: Sites of 7 Whitechapel murders: Osborn Street (center right), George Park (center left), Hanbury Street- Annie Chapman - (top), Buck's Row - Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols (far right), Berner Street - Elizabeth Stride (bottom right), Mitre Square- Catherine Eddowes-  (bottom left), Dorset Street- Mary Jane Kelly (middle left). 

https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/Jack-the-Ripper-murders-site/Ee0d8C79MN

London School of Economics & Political Science Map 1898

A London workhouse or doss house (Wikipedia)

Peabody Building, National Archives UK

The tragic shipwreck of the Princess Alice, Thames River, Sept. 3, 1878

(Wikipedia)

Recovering bodies from the Thames River (Wikipedia)

Burial of the unknown at Woolworth Cemetery (Wikipedia)

Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London 1851 - Visited by Catherine Eddowes. (Wikipedia)

Gothenburg, Sweden- where Elizabeth Stride was born 

Ten Bells Pub, Whitechapel 

Drawings - Jack the Ripper's London (Newspapers.com)

Sleeping in the rough- London's East End 1880s

(Newspapers.com)

Fear/Suspicion runs rampant in London (Newspapers.com)

1885 Sketch Inspector F. Abbeline, investigating the Ripper Case

(Wikipedia)

Jack the Ripper "From Hell" Letter

(Wikipedia)

13 Miller's Court - Mary Jane Kelly's Room

(Wikipedia)

Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, North London where Aaron Kosminski was an inmate from 1891-1894.  (Wikipedia)

1894 Memo written by Sir Melville Macnaghten, Assist. Chief Constable of the London Metropolitan Police, naming "Kosminski" as one of the 3 suspects in the Ripper case. 

The shawl! (Daily Mail)

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Halie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed By Jack the Ripper, Mariner Books, London, March 2020. 

Irish Eyes Tea Company, 36 East Main Street, Lititz, Pennsylvania, 17543

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Jack the Ripper, History.com, March 2025. 

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Kristina Killgrove, Archaeological Geneticists Call Jack The Ripper DNA Study 'Unpublishable Nonsense', Fobes.com, March 18, 2019.

Lady Londonderry Tea, Irish Eyes Tea Company, 8 Sturgis Lane, Lititz, Pennsylvania 17543

Lindsey Goodwin, Victorian Watercress Sandwiches, TheSpruceEats.com, Dec. 22, 2022.

Patricia Cornwell, Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, Thomas and Mercer, Feb 28, 2017.

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