Jack the Ripper was the name given to an unidentified serial killer who murdered five women in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.
Attacks ascribed to the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who worked in the slums of London and whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations.
The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to the suspicion that their killer possessed surgical knowledge.
Author Melvin Harris spent years of .