Mary Anne Nichols (26 August 1845 – 31 August 1888 ) At about 23:00 on 30 August, Nichols was seen walking the Whitechapel Road; at 00:30 she was. An hour later she was turned out of 18 Thrawl Street as she was lacking money for a bed. She was last seen at the corner of Osborn Street and Whitechapel Road, at 02:30, an hour before her death. At the time of her murder Mary Anne was 45 years old, although she was well known for looking at least ten years younger. Mary was a prostitute working in London’s Whitechapel area. Her throat had been slit twice from left to right and her abdomen mutilated with one deep jagged wound, several incisions across the abdomen, and three or four similar cuts on the right side caused by the same knife at least 6–8 inches long used violently and downwards. The coroner expressed surprise at the small amount of blood at the crime scene, "about enough to fill two large wine glasses, or half a pint at the most". seen to leave a pub in Brick Lane, SpitalfieldsBrick LaneSpitalfields

Annie Chapman (September 1841 – 8 September 1888 ) seen to leave a pub in Brick Lane, SpitalfieldsBrick LaneSpitalfields According to the lodging house deputy Tim Donovan and the watchman John Evans, at about 1:45 a.m. on the morning of her death, Chapman found herself without money for her lodging and went out to earn some on the street. This may have been because she was an alcoholic who drank away her money. Her throat was cut from left to right, and she had been disembowelled, with her intestines thrown out of her abdomen over each of her shoulders. The morgue examination revealed that part of her uterus was missing. The face was swollen and turned on the right side. The tongue protruded between the front teeth, but not beyond the lips. The tongue was evidently much swollen. The front teeth were perfect as far as the first molar, top and bottom and very fine teeth they were. The body was terribly mutilated.

Elizabeth Stride aka 'Long Liz’ (27 November 1843 – 30 September 1888) Stride was originally from Sweden, moving to London when she was in her 20s where she married. This marriage did not last and she soon turned to prostitution and moved into lodgings in a notoriously criminal district. Stride's body was discovered close to 1 a.m. on Sunday 30 September 1888 by Louis Diemschutz, the steward of a Working Mens Club. The steward drove into the yard with a pony and two-wheeled cart, when his horse shied. The yard was so dark that he was unable to see her body without lighting a match. With blood still flowing from a wound in her neck, it appeared that she was killed just moments before he arrived. Her throat had been cut but there were no other mutilations of her body.

Catherine Eddowes aka ‘Kate Kelly’ (14 April 1842 – 30 September 1888) Born in Wolverhampton in 1842 Catherine moved to London with her father. She had three children but developed a drinking problem. On September 28 th 1888 Catherine and her boyfriend rented a cheap bed for the night at different doss houses. On September 29 th her boyfriend sold some boots so that the pair could have breakfast together that morning. At 8pm on September 29 th Catherine is arrested for being drunk and disorderly (she was pretending to be a fire engine). She is put in police cells/ On September 30 th she is released in the early hours of the morning. At 1.45am her body is found ten minutes away from the station. Catherine was found by Police Constable Edward Watkins who was on his nightly beat when he made the gruesome discovery. He found Catherine lying on her back with her clothes up above her waist. Her throat was cut and her intestines outside of her body. Her stomach was ripped up and she was lying in a pool of blood.

Mary Jane Kelly (1863 – November 9 th 1888) Mary Jane Kelly was 25 years old and born in Limerick, Ireland. She worked at a high class brothel in the West End as a prostitute. She became an alcoholic moving from brothel to brothel in Whitechapel. On November 8 th Mary was last seen singing in the street, completely drunk. On November 9 th her landlord broke into her room to demand rent and found her mutilated body on the bed. The cause of death was the cutting of the artery in her throat. She was said to have been murdered with “a very sharp, strong knife about an inch in width and six inches long.” Once she had been killed her body was horribly mutilated. Her face was cut beyond recognition and her internal organs had been removed and placed around the room.