On September 27, the Central News Agency received a letter, which was written in red ink and stamped with fingerprints. The letter began with Dear Boss, and the content can basically be summarized as "I killed those whores, and all these It's far from over." The words in the letter are joking and the attitude is arrogant. The sender's meaning is very clear. Until the police arrest me, I will continue to do so.
And at the end of this letter, there appeared the signature that is of great significance in the entire history of human crime—Jack the Ripper!
At one o'clock in the morning on September 30, Elizabeth Stadler's body was found by a coachman. Unlike the previous victims, the 44-year-old Swedish prostitute was not cut open, but died. Excessive blood loss in the left carotid artery.
Just as a large number of police rushed to the scene, around 1:45 in the morning, the 46-year-old prostitute Catherine Eddos was found dead in Bishop's Square. In addition to having her throat cut and laparotomy, and her intestines thrown into her right chest, she was also deprived of part of her uterus and kidneys.
The shocking thing is that there was a patrolling police officer passing by at 1:30, and he could swear to God, there was nothing unusual here at that time. In other words, within that short fifteen minutes, the murderer neatly completed the heinous murder and cut up the corpse.
It seemed destined to be a sleepless night when, at three o'clock in the morning, a police officer searching for a suspect found some blood-stained clothing (which was later identified as Catherine Eddos's) near Goston Street. part of the apron). On the high wall near where the clothes fell, a line of text written by the suspected murderer in chalk was found: "Jews are not a nation willing to be resented!"
Inspector General Thomas Arnold ordered the words to be erased immediately after arriving at the scene, because he feared that the graffiti would be seen by passers-by after daylight and arouse anti-Semitic sentiment.
Master Cat's evaluation of this guy afterwards was: "He could have found a piece of tofu and killed him or hanged himself with a few sticks of vermicelli! This is the only evidence that can be used to compare the handwriting on the murderer's letter!"
On October 1, the next day, the Central News Agency received another postcard, which was also written in red ink. The writer claimed to be "Naughty Jack" and mentioned that he planned to "do two more things the next day". Based on the date this postcard was sent, the "two things" he said were undoubtedly the early morning of September 30th. homicide.
On October 15, a letter sent to the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee once again attracted everyone's attention. The letter contained half a kidney and was written in black ink. The writer claimed to be "from hell" and said the kidney was taken from "a certain woman" (Katherine Eddos from whom the organ was taken) and that he had cooked and eaten the other half . Unlike the previous two letters, this one does not have any signatures.
Things have developed to this point, the city of London can be regarded as completely exploded, and the name of Jack the Ripper has become synonymous with bloodthirsty killers. He was the first killer to create a frenzy of murders reported by the global media. During the years when the newspaper industry was booming, for some tabloids, the appearance of Brother Jack had the same significance as the reform of stamp duty, at least the circulation won't lie...
There has never been a killer with such popularity. People don't even know whether he is male or female, old or young, human or ghost... They only know that a terrifying legend has been born, and everyone is a witness.
And the facts have also proved that for many years to come, Jack's shadow hangs over almost all serial killers, because he taught the whole world a lesson. If there are "textbook acting skills" in the world, then he is here "Textbook serial murder" was taught on the European stage at the end of the nineteenth century.
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On October 22, the dense fog still persisted, but the rain stopped.
A man in a black windbreaker came to Master Mao's office and knocked on the door.
"Please come in." Master Cat's voice was listless.
The man who walked in was very strange, he was a very handsome young man, yes, that is "beautiful", according to our Chinese saying, maybe it is better understood - he was born with a pretty face.
"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Monte Douglas and I am..."
"It's a young and wealthy boy." Master Mao continued on with his words, but he didn't look at him at all.
Douglas felt a little strange: "Sir... have we met before?"
Master Cat didn't bother to answer his question, and said to himself: "I am Logan, a detective, and he is my assistant, Mr. Atkinson. You can entrust him with full power to handle your case. I think you will get it soon." A satisfactory result."
Wang Xu on the side yawned impatiently: "Tell me, brother Douglas, what do you need help with?"
Douglas really didn't expect to open the door to do business like this, and his attitude was so self-willed, but after a little thought, he still said: "Well... That's right, I hope to investigate the identity of a certain lady, she is a friend of mine , although I think this kind of secret investigation is a bit impolite, but as you said, I come from a noble family, and if I make friends carelessly, it may bring unexpected bad consequences... "
Master Cat still didn't look this way, but his attitude was as rude as before: "Okay, let's stop your nonsense here, the people in front of you are detectives, not those old men in church who can only memorize the Bible, let me Guess the truth... You fell in love with a lady from a certain family, but it was only a one-time relationship or a casual acquaintance, or even worse, your pursuit was ruthlessly rejected by her, in a word, you fell on the road of love After a big somersault, I wanted to get to know each other better and find out if there were any other breakthroughs. According to our Chinese saying, this is called knowing yourself and the enemy and never ending a hundred battles.
Then you come here with a feverish head, of course, people in love don't have any rational minds, and then, you want to make up some nonsense, let us go out and do things for you, and I'll stop here right? "
Douglas' expression instantly became startled and angry: "You... how do you know? Who are you? Who sent you to spy on me?"
Wang Xu picked up a cup of tea: "Calm down...young man... calm down..." As he said this, he started drinking tea himself.
Master Mao continued: "You don't need to put on that expression, I rely on reasoning, and the people who eat the job of detectives are much more powerful than you think, anyway, just don't play any tricks in front of us, Tell the truth if you have a request, and Mr. Atkinson will be obliged to do it no matter how trivial it is."
"I... I..." Douglas was speechless for a moment.
Wang Xu sighed and said: "Hey... he is quite irritable because he got into a difficult situation in a certain case. You'd better not mess with him. Tell me if you have something to say, but tell the truth, otherwise that guy will take the opportunity to find fault again." vent."
Although Douglas was a little angry, he felt that the abilities of the two guys in front of him were absolutely worthy of affirmation. For the sake of his beloved woman, he had no choice but to bear it: "Well, the thing is like this... About half a month ago, I Visited Mrs. Edith Baxter, who was my nurse, and was a good friend to my mother, almost like my aunt. I was doing some errands near Paddington station that day, and her house was not far from there. It was very close, so I stopped by to visit her.
Her husband died young, and her daughter is ten years old, but her life is quite prosperous. Every time I visit them, I am very relieved to see that Mrs. Baxter and little Sally are still healthy.
But that time, I saw another person, she was little Sally's governess, and she stayed at Mrs. Baxter's home. I remember that I had never seen such a beautiful teacher when I visited them in early July. .
She is so beautiful, I thought such a beauty would only appear in dreams, but that day she appeared in front of me so vividly, her sweet voice and graceful figure can conquer anyone man! I think her suitors could line up all the way to Northern Ireland! "
Wang Xu stared blankly, as if Douglas's provocative speech was meaningless, he took out the paper and pen from the drawer and threw them on the table, the other hand didn't even put down the teacup: "Okay, you keep these words for yourself Take it easy, I just need the name and address, after writing it down, I will help you check her out, from cosmetics to toilet paper brands, from mate selection to allergies can be listed for you documents."
Not only did Douglas not feel that Wang Xu's words were vulgar at the moment, but he thought that being able to say such explicit words was a reliable performance! I saw him picking up a pen to write down a string of addresses, and finally wrote the name of a young beauty in another blank space with a very devout expression.
The corner of Master Cat's eyes finally glanced this way, and then the corner of his mouth almost cracked to the root of his ear...
Seeing the piece of paper being placed in front of her, Wang Xu's eyes nearly popped out. Her mouthful of tea was sprayed on Brother Douglas's face, and she choked to death.
The name on the paper was—Eleanor.