HALL OF HORROR: Jack the Ripper

Back in the 1800's it was Jack Doe, while now it's John Doe. So, when no one knew who was the killer these prostitutes, the named him Jack the Ripper. His first murder was Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols on August 31st, 1888. He was named "Ripper" because all of his victims abdomens were slashed and ripped, some were even missing an organ or two. Annie Chapman's body was found on September 8th, 1888 near the doorway in a backyard on Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. Her throat had been severed by two cuts and her abdomen was completely ripped open. Doctors later realized that her uterus had been removed. His next victims were found only minutes apart. Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were found in two different areas in the city of London. Stride's body was the least mutilated, and some thought that Jack was interrupted while he was killing her. Her throat was slashed but her abdomen had not been touched. Some even doubted that the Ripper had killed her. Eddowes' body was found about an hour after Stride's. Her throat was severed and her abdomen was ripped open by several deep wounds. Her left kidney and a major part of her uterus had been removed. A few witnesses were able to describe a man that was with the victims before they were killed, but none of them matched. His last murder was his most gruesome. Mary Kelly's body was found in a single room in an inn the she lived in on November 9th, 1888. Her throat had been severed all the way down to her spine, and her abdomen had been emptied of all of her organs. Even her heart was missing. Kelly's organs were found all around the room and her heart was the only organ missing from the scene. Her body had been hacked at and her face was missing.

Jack the Ripper sent letters to the press, taunting the police. There were three letter, "Dear Boss" "Saucy Jack" and "From Hell". The "From Hell" letter, though, was most likely NOT from Jack, but from a man only "claiming" to be Jack the Ripper. Most of the words had been misspelled and was sent to George Lusk who was head of the "White Chapel Vigilance Committee" while the rest had been sent been sent to the press. The "Dear Boss" letter was the first letter sent to the press. At first the police thought that the letter was a hoax, but when they found Catherine Eddowes' body with one of the ears severed they looked at it again. In the letter it said that "Jack" had saved some blood from his last victim(Annie Chapman) but it had gone bad so he had to use red ink. "Saucy Jack" was on the back of a postcard and was sent 24 hours after the "double event" of Eddowes and Stride. He stated that "number one squealed a bit" so he couldn't finish. It also mentioned that he didn't get the ears that he had promised to send to the police.
No one had discovered who Jack the Ripper was, so his identity is still a mystery.(i would like to thank wikipedia for giving me the info:))

The next Hall of Infamy killer will be Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Come back for info on her next week!
<3 Kalyn

For Now:)

I have been thinking ever since I put up the last post and I have decided to put up a Hall of Killers. Every week for a while I have decided to do a Hall of Infamy by putting up some info on a serial killer of the week. I will try to get a picture and list some of the victims and how he killed them and when, and hopefully I can get an idea of what to put in the book, if I follow through with that idea. I will try to put this weeks one up tomorrow and I think it's fair that I start with Jack the Ripper. He started the Serial Series and I want to honor him by doing a bit on him. So I will try to get that up tomorrow. At the end of the little rant about Jack I will tell you which serial killer I will do next and I will get that up the next week. I hope i can get some ideas out of this. I think I will talk about the ways to die when you've been convicted too. Like the electric chair and getting your head removed. "Off with his head!" I've always wanted to say that.
<3 Kalyn

Behind the Needle (comeing ideas)

so, i've been reading about serial killers(i'm morbid like that:)) and i watched a documentary about death and i came up with an idea. i thought that maybe that i could teach about serial killers and all that in behind the needle, as well as be all gory and stuff. so far she had disemboweled a guy:D it's pretty awesome. i have the beginning of it up on inkpop. here is the link:

http://inkpop.com/projects/79075/behind-the-needle/

so far on there it is a short story, but i have to get 10,000 together to make it a book, so it is staying that way until i have written that many words. so far, it's going good. and i have a LOT of ideas for an "educational" behind the needle. but it might be long. see, i thought that maybe Heather could try all the serial killer methods or something like that, so that people could at least know the methods and how feared they were. There are a lot, but i'm going to just do a few(the more important, and widely known ones. but maybe a few unknown ones too). I can't explain how surprised i was when i learned that a lot of the serial killers were CANNIBALS!! which is exactly what Heather is. To tell the truth, she was gonna start out as a vampire, but i decided that vampires are kind of a thing in the past and i would try something new. And i have, and she's a cannibal. I think i will definitely mention a few cannibals. And with the death thing? See, in the olden days(you know, kind of right after the medieval times. i can't remember what it's called) they would cut off the head of the accused, so a scientist tried something. One of his friends had been convicted of something(i can't remember what, i was fighting with my sister at the time) and instead of defending him, he told him to try something. That something was to BLINK really hard right before his head was severed too see what happened. And after his head was severed, his eyes were still blinking for 11 seconds. I thought it was cool, so i think i might try to throw that in. I'm not sure yet, so i will have too see. But i'm excited. me and my morbid self are having a party because i get to talk about it!! like, be all gory and sad and depressed and bloody and all that. it will be fun. But i might have to make 2 versions. one totally gory and out there, and then one that is not as gory and fit to read. yeah, i have no clue. lol. we'll see. i'm working on it!! maybe i'll get some up soon:)
<3 Kalyn (btw, "Kalyn" is like my first and my middle name squished together. I think i might use that and put it on my books. what is it called?? i'll think of it. just thought i would tell u:))