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...away was a single brown stack-heeled shoe. Coming closer, the woman discovered Josephine's body; she had died only 300 yards away from her parents' front door. The bruised, bloodstained corpse bore distinctive wounds, convincing police that a sadistic killer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" had claimed another victim. Declared George Oldfield, assistant chief constable of the West Yorkshire police: "Clearly, we have a homicidal maniac at large...
...been nearly a year since the Ripper last struck. Nine of his ten previous targets were prostitutes working the red-light districts of such grimy North England industrial towns as Leeds, Huddersfield and Bradford. The murder of Josephine Whitaker, an entirely respectable clerk, set off fears that the unknown killer might attack any woman in "a triangle of terror" in West Yorkshire and Lancashire. "The whores in the red-light area of Leeds are so jumpy that some gulp tranquilizers before going out to work," reports TIME Correspondent Art White after a visit to Yorkshire last week. "Some are carrying...
Police will not discuss the Ripper's trademark murder technique, because they fear that lurid revelations might inspire other killers to imitate his grisly methods. Some details, however, came out at an inquest on Jean Jordan, the Ripper's seventh victim. At that proceeding, a pathologist reported that the victim had been slashed and mutilated in a style reminiscent of the original Jack the Ripper. In 1888 a rapacious killer whose identity has never been established savagely murdered five prostitutes in London's East...
...through with echoes, correspondences and recapitulations of earlier moments. When Lulu is reduced to streetwalking in London, Berg called for her three clients to be played by the same singers who previously played her victims. The last of these, corresponding to the murdered Schön, is Jack the Ripper, who kills Lulu...
...film is so heavy-handed that you can almost see Clark's cinematic brain at work. First you take Jack the Ripper, a colorful killer with his gory methods, and popular with the masses as well. Jack does his work at the right place and in the right time, too, Victorian England--perfect. When Holmes meets Jack the Ripper, the temptation to indulge in gruesome special effects overwhelms the directors. No matter that the story line, a mish-mash of all the Jack the Ripper identity theories, is so complex and capricious as to make Conan Doyle's brand...