FROM HELL

'FROM HELL'

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Today, there are only three Jack the Ripper letters, that investigators believe may be credible.

But only the "From Hell" letter was sent with a little added extra....... a human kidney!

In 1888, between August 31st and November 9th, London police found five women, mutilated and murdered within one square mile of each other.

These would become known as 'The Whitechapel Murders' committed by Jack the Ripper.

During this time period, hundreds of letters flooded police stations and Scotland Yard, claiming ownership of the crimes.

All but three of these letters, were determined to be hoaxes.

But of those, one stood out for its chilling content......

It has since become known as the “From Hell” letter.

The writer claimed to have just killed again, and eaten half of the victim’s kidney.

Included with the letter, was said to be the other half of the kidney~preserved.

It also promised to send the murder weapon.

But the real reason the letter remains convincing is, two weeks prior, a woman named Catherine Eddowes was found dead in Whitechapel, and her kidney was gone.

By the time the “From Hell” letter was postmarked on October 15th 1888, four victims were attributed to Jack The Ripper.

All four women had their throats cut, and their bodies mutilated, in a manner indicating the killer had anatomical knowledge.

George Lusk, Chairman of the Whitechapel Committee, opened his mail on October 16th, to find an unusual letter.

It came with a small box wrapped in brown paper.

Inside was a human kidney that showed evidence of having been preserved in spirits.

The writer claimed to have fried and eaten half of the kidney, and had preserved the other half to send to Lusk.

The full text reads:

From Hell

Mr. Lusk

Sor I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise.

I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer.

Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk.

Written in red ink, the letter contained several spelling mistakes, and grammatical errors.

To police, this suggested an uneducated writer.

However, several silent letters were included, like the k in “knife” and the h in “while,” indicating that it was perhaps intentional misspellings to hide an educated person.

In 1888, there was no scientific manner to verify whether the kidney belonged to Eddowes, or not.

All that could be determined was that the kidney was that of an adult human, with alcohol dependency, and came from the left side of the body, leaving investigators at a dead end.

Unfortunately, the “From Hell” letter and the partial kidney went 'missing' from police archives shortly after it was documented and photographed, and is still missing today, ruling out any chance of modern analysis.

To this day, Jack the Ripper’s identity remains unknown.........

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