Locating 'Jack the Ripper' in the Archives, Dr. Jill Bender
Channel: UNCG Special Collections and University Archives
Date: 2022-10-06

In the fall of 1888, the East End of London was terrorized by a string of brutal murders. The victims were all impoverished women who lived on the margins of accepted society. The murders occurred at night, and there were no witnesses, no clues, no perceivable motives. The police were at a loss and the murderer was never caught. With time, these brutal crimes have been attributed to “Jack the Ripper,” a serial killer whom no one has ever identified. In this talk, Jill Bender will place the crimes and the proposed suspects into historical context and explore what the unsolved case of “Jack the Ripper” tells us about late-Victorian society.