LONDON, September 1888.

DARE YOU WALK IN HIS SHADOW?

As the night sets in and the long shadows fall, we delve into the
crooked, cobbled alleyways of Whitechapel to follow the Ripper's
bloodstained trail of terror.

Step by bloodcurdling step you are spirited back to that spine-chilling

era of gaslit horror, to join the Victorian police as they hunt the Ripper
through a warren of crumbling backstreets.

Through the menacing shadows you weave, visiting and inspecting

the murder sites, sifting through the evidence, and eliminating suspect
after fascinating suspect.

YOUR SEARCH WILL TAKE YOU TO

 The doorway where the only clue was discovered as the police
chased just one step behind the Ripper.

 The atmospheric corner, where a lady met the Ripper and lived
to tell the tale.

 The wall upon which a sinister message was scrawled.

 The awe-inspiring building where the last victim desperately

sought shelter shortly before she was murdered.

Finally, by the light of a lone lamp and in the shadow of an abandoned

Victorian building, we will unmask the Ripper.

With more expert guidance, in more dark alleyways than any other this
is THE Jack the Ripper Walk. But we feel we must warn you that it
WILL get dark and it might be foggy.

DARE YOU JOIN THE SEARCH?

JACK THE RIPPER:

Put the words in the right place:

Jack the Ripper" is the popular name given to a serial killer who killed a number of
____prostitutes__________ in the East End of London in 1888. The name originates from a letter
written by someone who claimed to be the killer published at the time of the murders. The killings
took place within a mile area and involved the ___districs________ of Whitechapel, Spitalfields,
Aldgate, and the City of London proper. He was also called the Whitechapel Murderer and
"Leather Apron."

It is __unclear________ just how many women the Ripper killed. It is generally accepted that he
killed five, though some have written that he murdered only four while others say seven or more.
All five were prostitutes and were killed between early August and early November 1888. Most of
them were killed ___outdoors_____ and there is no evidence to suggest that any of them knew
each other. They varied in both age and appearance. Most were drunk or thought to be drunk at
the time they were killed"

The Ripper seized the women by their throats and strangled them until they were
__unconscious________ if not dead. The autopsies constantly revealed clear indications that the
victims had been strangled. He cut the throats when the women were on the ground. The Ripper
then made his other mutilations, still from the victim's right side, or possibly while straddling over
the body at or near the feet. No sign of intercourse was ever detected nor did the Ripper
masturbate over the _bodies_______. Usually he took a piece of the victim's viscera. The taking of
a "trophy" is a common practice by modern sexual serial killers. In the opinion of most of the
surgeons who examined the bodies, most believed that the killer had to have some degree of
anatomical knowledge to do what he did. In one case he removed a kidney from the front rather
than from the side, and did not damage any of the surrounding _organs___ while doing so. Given
the time circumstances of the crimes (outside, often in near total darkness, keeping one eye out
for the approach of others, and under extremely tight time constraints), the Ripper almost certainly
would have had some experience in using his knife.

Jack the Ripper has remained __popular__ for a lot of reasons. He was not the first serial killer,
but he was probably the first to appear in a large metropolis at a time when the general populace
had become literate and the press was a force for social change. Every day the activities of the
Ripper were chronicled in the newspapers as were the results of the inquiries and the actions
taken by the police. It was the ___press __ coverage that made this series of murders a "new
thing", something that the world had never known before. The press was also partly responsible
for creating many myths surrounding the Ripper and ended up turning a sad killer of women into a
"bogey man", who has now become one of the most romantic figures in history. He may have
been a sexual serial killer of a type all too common in the 1990s, but he was also bent on terrifying
a city and making the whole world take notice of him by leaving his horribly mutilated victims in
plain sight. Lastly, the Ripper was never caught and it is the ___misteries________surrounding
this killer that both add to the romance of the story and creating an intellectual puzzle that people
still want to solve.

Press, prostitutes, bodies, outdoors, mysteries, popular, organs, unconscious, districts, unclear

ROLE PLAY: Write a dialogue between two police constables and a

suspect of the East-End crimes. Find extra information for the
investigations that took place in 1888 and the different suspects in :
http://www.casebook.org/intro.html