�Jack the Ripper� is the which was given to an serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished in and around the Whitechapel district of in 1888.� The name in a letter which was written by claiming to be the murderer.� The letter is to be a hoax and may have been by a journalist in an to heighten interest in the .� The �Ripper� attacked prostitutes from the slums whose were cut prior to abdominal .� Rumours that the murders were intensified in September and October 1888 and from people to be the murderer were by media outlets and Scotland Yard.� There are now over one hundred about the Ripper�s identity and the murders have multiple works of fiction.
