London Dedicates an Exhibition to Jack The Ripper

From 15 may to 2 November 2008 the London Museum in Docklands holds the first exhibition about Jack the Ripper, the most famous serial killer of history, who killed five women in the autumn of 1888. The exhibition Jack the Ripper and the East End will allow to examine, for the first time, surviving documents from the investigation, victims’ personal belongings, letters from the public and the supposed Ripper himself. It will also make room to the labyrinthine world of delinquency, prostitution and misery wherein the crimes was committed and the big impact that he had on the media of those times. Maybe the yellow press was born just with Jack the Ripper. Besides the five victims imputed to him, the exhibition will also revolve about six women killed likewise in those years.

Jack the Ripper is a legend, the holy grail of crime history. Who was Jack the Ripper? Maybe the serial killer par excellence was a woman, maybe a celebrated painter or even a Windsor. The theory more fascinating is that one about a Mason plot. Whatever the truth is, now the mysterious Jack the Ripper is making fun of us “From Hell”.

 

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