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By November 9, 1888, Mary Jane Kelly had been killed in her room on <break time="0.8s"/> Dorset Street. She was the most extensively mutilated of all five victims. Police arrived to find her door locked. They waited over an hour before breaking it down. Her landlord had come to collect overdue rent. <break time="0.8s"/> The delay meant the scene had gone cold before investigators even got inside.
A man named George Hutchinson then came forward. He claimed he had stood outside Kelly's building and watched a well-dressed man enter with her the night before. He gave an incredibly detailed description. Every button. Every curl of the mustache. The color of the man's boots. The chain on his watch. <break time="0.8s"/> Detectives treated him as a key witness. But his level of detail was almost too precise for a dark street at midnight. His account has never been verified. His motive for coming forward was never fully established.
Meanwhile the press had begun publishing letters supposedly written by the killer. One was signed Jack the Ripper. Most investigators at the time believed the letters were fakes written by journalists to sell papers. The nickname stuck anyway. And once it stuck, the mythology started to swallow the actual facts.
Police had no shortage of suspects. A Polish barber named Aaron Kosminski was named by at least one senior investigator. A doctor named Montague Druitt was named by another. A Russian con man named Michael Ostrog appeared on official lists. None of them were ever charged. None of them were ever tried. And the evidence against each of them was thin enough that serious researchers still cannot agree on any single name today.
The investigation had produced no arrest, no conviction, and no clear explanation for how the killings simply stopped. <break time="0.8s"/> Which raises a question nobody has ever answered convincingly — did the killer stop, or did somebody make sure the investigation did? <break time="1.5s"/>