The women were Elizabeth Stride, Mary Jane Kelly, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman and Catherine Eddowes. They are known as ...

Their names were Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. They were all desperately poor women who lived in the East End of London.

Catherine Eddowes fell into the Ripper’s clutches in the early hours of September 30, 1888. That Catherine, 46, had earlier been paralytically drunk may be a blessing. For the Ripper mutilated ...