The teams: Jack the Ripper's London

"Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888.

Attacks ascribed to the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes from the slums whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations.

The murders were intensified in September and October 1888, and letters from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer were received by media outlets and Scotland Yard.

Butchers, slaughterers, surgeons and physicians were suspected because of the manner of the mutilation.

One of the most important documents was written by Sir Melville Macnaghten  in 1894.

In this document Macnaghten reported that the main suspects were : Montague John Druitt, Aaron Kosminski, Michael Ostrog, George Chapman and Francis Tumblety.