Breakdancing with Jack the Ripper by Reb MacRath
Saucy Jack! Black Jack! Leather Apron! Oh no, no. One name alone does justice to your deathless razzmatazz. And nothing can do justice to the leap from your brief reign to world-wide Rippermania. It all started on four fog-swept nights... The Facts Scene: The impoverished areas in and around Whitechapel, London. Year: 1888. Five prostitutes--Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly--were murdered between 31 August and 9 November 1888. These women are the "canonical five", believed to have been murdered by a single killer. Three had had internal organs removed with surgical precision. And the fifth kill was the grisliest. Why Black Magic Beats Mere Numbers Oh, Jack. You might have been only a footnote in the annals of serial killers. The competition today is tremendous: Luis Garavito. Colombian child-murderer, torture-killer, and rapist known as ”La Bestia”. Confessed to killing 140 children over...