Exposing Jack the Stripper: A Biography of the Worst Serial Killer You've Probably Never Heard of: Stranger Than Fiction, #3
By Fergus Mason
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Jack the Ripper may get all the fame, but his 1960s counterpart, Jack the Stripper, will really send shivers down your spine. At least six women, all prostitutes, were murdered at his hand--possibly more. Most intriguing of all...he was never caught.
The crimes, though often forgotten today, inspired the crime novel "Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square," which Alfred Hitchcock turned into the 1972 movie, "Frenzy."
Go inside the hunt for this brutal killer in this gripping short biography.
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Exposing Jack the Stripper - Fergus Mason
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Introduction
Jack the Stripper? You’re having a laugh, right?
I could understand the librarian’s confusion. If I’d asked for information about Jack the Ripper I’d have been on solid ground; everyone has heard of the mysterious killer who stalked London’s Whitechapel district in 1888, committing a series of five increasingly atrocious mutilation murders that stopped as suddenly and mysteriously as it had begun. The Ripper was never caught. Despite hundreds of books and academic papers on the subject his identity still isn’t known a century and a quarter after his final crime. That hasn’t stopped people from speculating, of course; there are now more than a hundred theories about who was behind the crimes and why. Ripperology
is still big business, with a ready market for any new and interesting look at the notorious crimes. Conspiracy theorists have had a field day, especially with the mysterious graffiti that announced, The Juwes are the ones who will not be blamed for nothing.
Was it the work of an illiterate anti-Semite – or a coded warning from a Freemason?[1]
I wasn’t researching Jack the Ripper though. This time I was looking for information about a less well-known but equally ruthless killer, who between 1964 and 1965 left the nude bodies of six prostitutes scattered round Hammersmith. Two previous murders were probably his work too, and there’s a real possibility that he had started killing more than 40 years earlier. This maniac preferred to strangle rather than slash, but he killed with the same single-minded determination as the notorious Ripper. Like his almost-namesake there is speculation about his identity and a few suspects, but nobody was ever arrested and there’s no hard evidence either way.
Jack the Stripper never achieved the fame of the 19th century killer, but he hasn’t been completely forgotten. Over the decades since his mysterious killing spree ended several researchers have looked into the case, and some of them have made intriguing suggestions about his identity. Unless some new piece of evidence comes to light – and that doesn’t seem likely – we’ll never know for sure who he was. All we can be certain of is what he did.
Of course there’s nothing all that remarkable about a serial killer who stalks prostitutes. It’s a sad fact that ladies of negotiable affection make easy targets because their profession demands that they go off alone with men they don’t know, and the law doesn’t always pay their deaths the attention it should. Six – or even eight – isn’t even that high a death toll for a serial killer. Instead of remarking that Jack the Stripper hasn’t been completely forgotten you could wonder why he’s remembered at all. In fact there are several reasons why the case continues to fascinate people. London is one of the world’s oldest and greatest cities; murder is something usually associated with its slums, and when nude bodies start turning up in respectable neighborhoods or floating down the Thames people tend to take notice. The brutal nature of the deaths helps, and of course there’s always an element of mystery about serial killers who evaded capture. The Stripper case also has hints of a bigger picture, of connections between the sordid business conducted by street prostitutes and the glamorous upper reaches of London society. It even touches on