Jack the Ripper is the popular name of an unknown killer who terrorized London between August and November 1888. Jack the Ripper is one of the most famous serial killers known today. Almost as many books and screenplays are written about him as there are about Adolf Hitler. The mystery of this Whitechapel murderer lives on today. Many people wonder why and how Jack the Ripper is still famous to this day for killing people. Jack the Ripper only had five victims and his killing spree only lasted about 12 weeks, so he wasn't the most prolific serial killer, so why is he so famous? Well, when the murders happened, there was worldwide coverage of the murders committed by Jack the Ripper, the media gave the people everything he was doing, so everyone knew. The Whitechapel area was also said to be called an "evil" area. The Whitechapel area was seen as an evil place full of murder, disease and other such things. Also, he became known as "Jack the Ripper" and sent letters to the media, terrifying letters and the media fed them to the people, which is the main reason he became so famous, he was a threat to the media. The mystery of Jack the Ripper begins on 31 August 1888 with the discovery of the lifeless body of a woman in Buck's Row, in the heart of the Whitechapel slum in London. Jack the Ripper's five victims were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Edowes and Mary Jane Kelley. All of his victims were women and all five were prostitutes, and all but one of the victims, Elizabeth Stride, were horribly mutilated. All the victims had been strangled and then had their throats cut, and all of them, except Stride, had been horribly mutilated. Many "Ripperologists" said there were... half the paper... The name of Macnaghten's second suspect was confirmed as Aaron Kosminiski, his documents show him to be a docile and harmless madman. that he heard voices in his head. Macnaghten's third suspect, Michael Ostrog, was investigated and there is nothing more to prove other than that he was nothing more than a fraudster. Over the past decade there has been more evidence recovered, new information gleaned through young criminal science, and more serious research conducted into the Jack the Ripper mystery than ever before since the case was officially closed in 1892. It is still a huge mystery and there there are still so many people determined to find out who did it. I'm sure if we had all the technology we have today, we would have been able to catch The Ripper, but we didn't. Sad to say, the mystery of these Whitechapel murders lives on today.