Case overview
Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved women working as women in the sex trade who lived in the slums of the East End of London. A police investigation into a series of eleven brutal murders committed in Whitechapel and Spitalfields between 1888 and 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the 1888 murders. [1]
At the inquest into Mylett's death, the jury returned a verdict of murder. He was briefly thought to be the Ripper, but was later discharged from court for lack of evidence on 3 March 1891. Eleven separate murders, stretching from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891, were included in a Metropolitan Police investigation and were known collectively in the police docket as the "Whitechapel murders". [2]
