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When one hears the term "Victorian", many images come to mind. For some, the term conjures up visions of lace and gloves and fragile lovers. Others think of restricted corsets and even tighter morals. Others, swayed perhaps by one too many British costume dramas, envision mild elegance and long lost beauty. Effortlessly, few people think of multiple inactive body cast about in the roads or dark bed rooms, most mutilated to a shocking degree, and yet, those tragic images enjoyed a substantial role not only in overdue Victorian London but ever since. In 1888 and 1889, a killer stalked the dark backstreets of the town through the notoriously overcrowded and crime-ridden Whitechapel region, murdering young women and then chopping their body up such as a butcher. There have been a countless amount of serial killers throughout background, and certainly more prolific ones, but the timing, circumstances, and unsolved mother nature of the circumstance continue to make Jack the Ripper the most famous serial killer in history. The murders arrived at a time when press coverage could be both more acute and more common, and it allowed the general public a closer look into how police businesses operated at the time, exposing both their strengths and shortcomings.
