Jack the Ripper Map

London Metropolitan Area in 2021

This is a map of present day London, which includes the city as well as the East of London demarcated as Whitechapel, all within the confines of the London Orbital motorway. This image is screenshotted and mildly edited from google maps to point out Whitechapel.

Victim 1: Mary Ann Nicholas

The first victim Mary Ann "Polly" Nicholas was found on August 31st at 3:30 a.m by Charles Cross on Bucks Row.

Age:44

Date of death: August 31,1888

Cause of death: syncope due to hemorrhage caused by the severance of the carotid arteries

Victim 2: Annie Chapman

the second victim of Jack the Ripper. Annies brutally murdered body was found on 29 Hanbury street.

Age:47

Date of death: September 8,1888

Cause of death: Blood loss due to severuty of the injuries

Victim 3: Elizabeth Stride

the third victim of Jack the Ripper. Elizabeth's body was found on Henriques Street.

Age: 45

date of death: September 30, 1888

Cause of death: Murder, hemorrhage due to partial severance to the left carotid artery; severance of trachea

Victim 4: Catherine Eddowes

Catherine Eddowes murder was on the same day of Elizabeth Stride's murder on September 30th at 1:44 a.m

Age:46

Date of death: September 30,1888

Cause of death: blood loss due to the severity of injuries

Victim 5: Mary Jane Kelly

The final victim of Jack the Ripper, Mary Jane Kelly's mutilated body was found in a room she had leased on Dorset Street. The most gruesome murders out of all of the Ripper's victims.

Age:25

Date of death: 11/09/1888

Cause of death: hemorrhage due to severance of the carotid artery

Victim 6: Martha Tabram

She could be the first victim of Jack the Ripper. Tabram's body was found on the Gunthorpe street, Martha Tabram was murdered in George yard, Whitechapel.

Age: 39

Date of death: 8/7/1888

Cause of death: Blood loss due to injuries

Mary Ann Nicholas Injuries

At 3:45 a constable name John Neil arrives on the scene and finds the body. He finds that the woman’s throat had been cut. The doctor notices incisions along her abdomen.

Two deep cuts to the throat, both of which had penetrated down to the spine

Annie Chapman's Injuries

Annie had been murdered and her body terribly mutilated. A handkerchief was tied around her throat, the Doctor also noted that despite the massive injuries to her neck and torso, there was not a lot of blood loss from the body, and that her tongue was left sticking out of her swollen head, this meant she was strangled first and then brutally killed with a sharp weapon.

Elizabeth Stride Injuries

The only injury reported that her throat was deeply gashed, six inches in length.

Catherine Eddowes Injuries

Her throat was slashed, abdomen carved open, and her left kidney was removed.

The Case of Bucks Row (Durward Street)

The first victim of the Jack the Ripper Mary Ann Nichols body was found in a gateway entrance between a board school and a neighborhood of cottages on Durward street. She was stabbed twice in the private areas, her abdomens were slashed, and was a victim of attempted decapitation (Curtis 2001, 20)

The Case of 29 Hanbury Street

This Annie Chapmans murder scene. At 6am on September 8, 1888 Annie chapman was found in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street where she had been murdered.

The Case of Berner/ Henriques Street

Berner street, now known as Henriques Street was the murder scene where the third victim was murdered. Elizabeth Stride, 45. It was believed she had a less brutal assassination as there was only a deep throat cut, believed to be an attempted decapitation (Curtis 2001, 20-21)

The case of Mitre's Square

The south corner of the square was the site of murder of Catherine Eddowes. She was found in the corner with her throat cut to the bone, face, stomach, pelvic area slashed, her left kidney and uterus missing, and intestines lying on her right shoulder and left arm. (Curtis 2001, 21)

The Case of Miller's Court

Mary Kelly lived in Miller's Court just off Dorset street before she was brutally murdered. Kelly was the last victim of Jack the Ripper.

Her mutilated body was discovered in a room leased on Dorset street in East London in the Spitalfields area, known as the most dangerous areas in all of Whitechapel. Today nothing of this street remains as it has been demolished and no resemblance as what it was in 1888 (Brennet n.d.)

The case of George Yard

The body of Martha Tabram was found on August 7, 1888 in Gunthorpe Street, known as George Yard. She was lying in a pool of her blood, and was wounded a total of 39 times (Ryder 1996).

Westminster Palace

With little connection to Jack the Ripper or any of the killings, the Westminster palace is a historic building for Great Britain's monarchs.

Image Source (Palace of "Westminster..." n.d.)

Buckingham Palace

Similar to Westminster, the Buckingham palace is as well a historical (but more modern) living abode for monarch of England. It is currently home to British royalty.

Image Source: (Britannica n.d)