Whitechapel, London · August to November 1888
What does the evidence actually permit us to conclude?
An investigation built from the inquest reports, police papers and press of 1888. Each quotation links to the passage it came from, and the site keeps "this document says X" apart from "X happened". Where sources disagree, both accounts stay on the page.
The five cases usually grouped together
These five are called the "canonical five". Whether one person killed all of them has not been proven, and the site does not assume it. The victims come first here: each case begins with her life.
How to read this site
Historical text
Quotations appear on aged paper with a burgundy rule, and always name their source.
(Specimen of the styling. Not a historical quotation.)
Editorial text
Editorial summary
Summaries and interpretations written for this site carry this label, so they cannot pass for evidence.
Confidence labels
Claims are labelled well supported, disputed, weakly supported, unknown or unverified, each with reasons. Ten newspapers repeating one report count as one line of evidence. How labelling works.
Archive status: 369 sources, 1036 verbatim passages, 544 claims, 192 people, built 14 October 2026.