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"Jack the knife" - The Ripper murders timeline

  • Mary Ann Nichols

    Mary Ann Nichols
    Nichols' body was discovered at about 3:40 a.m Buck's Row (now Durward Street), Whitechapel. The throat was severed by two cuts, and the lower part of the abdomen was partly ripped open by a deep, jagged wound. Several other incisions on the abdomen were caused by the same knife.
  • Annie Chapman

    Annie Chapman
    Her body was found near a doorway in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. The throat was severed by two cuts.The abdomen was slashed entirely open. Later discovered that the uterus had been removed.
  • Elizabeth Stride

    Elizabeth Stride
    Stride's body was discovered in Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street (now Henriques Street) in Whitechapel. The cause of death was one clear-cut incision which severed the main artery on the left side of the neck.
  • Catherine Eddowes

    Catherine Eddowes
    Her body was found in Mitre Square in the City of London, three-quarters of an hour after Stride's.The throat was severed and the abdomen was ripped open by a long, deep, jagged wound. The left kidney and the major part of the uterus had been removed.
  • Mary Jane Kelly

    Mary Jane Kelly
    Kelly's mutilated and disembowelled body was discovered lying on the bed in the single room where she lived at 13 Miller's Court, off Dorset Street, Spitalfields, at 10:45 a.m. The throat had been severed down to the spine, and the abdomen almost emptied of its organs. The heart was missing.