You Don’t Know Jack: The Search for Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper is one of the most notorious yet romanticized characters in modern history. His gruesome prostitute murder rampage of 1888 in Whitechapel, a poor district on the East Side of London, shocked Victorian society and fascinated the world for over a century. Jack the Ripper is not the first serial killer in history, but he is the first greatly publicized killer of the …showed first 75 words of 1422 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1422 total…Odell 264). But maybe the killer is someone we have never heard of, as Donald Runbelow wonderfully puts it “I have always had the feeling that on the Day of Judgment, when all things shall be known, when I and the other generations of ‘Ripperologists’ ask for Jack the Ripper to step forward and call out his true name, then we shall turn and look with astonishment as he announces his name and say: ‘Who?’” (Colby-Newton 87)