A passageway into Miller’s Court from Dorset Street led to Kelly’s little room, which had a door on one side and two windows around the corner from the door. Because Catherine Eddowes was killed in Aldgate, one problem faced in the Ripper investigation was that City of London Police, who weren't part of the London Met, had to work alongside H Division, which was. The fact remains, however, that all inquests ended with the same conclusion: death by person or persons unknown. Kelly’s corpse was nude except for a chemise and lying in the middle of the bed that sat flush against the apartment wall.

The first victim that morning was Elizabeth Stride, whose body was found in Dutfield’s Yard, off Berner Street, and we pay a visit to the site to build up an impression of what it was like at the tie of the murder. Detective Constable Walter Dew, one of the responding officers, said that she was rarely seen without an entourage of other women, or at least arm and arm with two or three friends. On the evening before her murder, Nichols spent time at a local pub and was last seen by her friends in the hour leading up to her death entertaining the company of a gentleman. Thirty minutes later, John Davis, a resident of 29 Hanbury, walked out to his backyard and came upon Chapman’s desecrated body. The breasts were cut off, the arms mutilated by several jagged wounds and the face hacked beyond recognition of the features.Kelly had been renting a room in a boarding house and had brought a gentleman to her bedroom that evening.

Barnett and Kelly lived first on George Street, then Dorset Street, from which they were evicted for not paying rent and for being drunk. Investigative profiling has suggested that Jack the Ripper was a white male in his twenties or thirties, with a brown beard, who appeared well-groomed and well-dressed. Truly, if you do not want to see a billboard-sized photograph of Catherine Eddowes’ autopsy photo, Ripper-Vision isn’t for you. She had left the pub with a soldier and a soldier was seen loitering in the area where Martha’s body was found, so the culprit was likely a soldier, QED. The reader is transported back in time as page after page shows how the london of Jack has developed over the last 133 years.Halse stated at the Eddowes inquest that he sent Hunt off for 'Mr McWilliam for instructions to have the writing photographed' .

The line between wealth and poverty is so clearly delineated that you can stand with one foot in wealth and the other in poverty at the same time. Criminal activity in the East End was rampant, and the area was widely disregarded and ignored by the general public. Tenement apartments lined the rest of the courtyard, and nothing else stood inside but a water pump and a dustbin. Never one to stay put for long, Kelly moved on from there to frequent Cooley’s Lodging House in Thrawl Street, Spitalfields around the end of 1886.It was evident from arrival that Chapman suffered similar attacks as Nichols, but the murder of Annie Chapman was much more disturbing. Mitre Square, a busy area by day, had been empty 15 minutes before when patrolman Edward Watkins made his 1:30 a.