The Whitechapel Murders

Today we stopped into the Jack the Ripper Museum which tells the story of the notorious serial killer who murdered and mutilated anywhere from five to eleven or more women in the impoverished district of Whitechapel in East London in 1888.  The museum, housed in an an old building in Whitechapel, replete with squeaking floor boards and small ramshackle rooms, transported us back in time to the days when fear ruled the gas-lit alleys of Whitechapel's crowded slums.

Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim, 
discovered by Police Constable Watkins on his regular night patrol.

Jack the Ripper's Sitting Room, Imagined.
It has been speculated that Jack was a doctor, artist or 
member of the Royal family.

Jack the Ripper's Sitting Room, Imagined.
His identify remains a mystery.
Some have speculated that Jack was Queen Victoria's surgeon
or her grandson.

The Police Station

A Victim's Bedroom, Imagined

Mary Jane Kelly from Limerick, Ireland
Said to be the last of Jack's victims.
She died at age 25 years.
Shortly before her death, she was heard singing the song,
"A violet plucked from mother's grave."

A Victorian stain glass window from the Whitechapel mortuary
where the victims' bodies were brought.