Jack Ripper
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Publicado: 25 de abril de 2012
1. What do you know about Jack the Ripper?
2. Do you know any other famous serial killer?
3. Why do you think stories of this kind attract people’s attention?
4. Read the followingarticle and consider if Dr Andrew Cook’ book makes any significant contribution to what you knew about Jack the Rippper:
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Tuesday, May 19 2009
Jack the Ripper 'was invented to win newspaperwar'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:45 AM on 01st May 2009
Jack the Ripper was a forgery invented by journalists to link a series of unrelated murders and sell newspapers, according toa new book. The unsolved murders of five prostitutes in London's East End in 1888 have spawned innumerable theories over the identity of the 'real' Jack the Ripper - with candidates including artistWalter Sickert, Alice In Wonderland author Lewis Carroll and even Queen Victoria's grandson the Duke of Clarence.
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'Myth': A contemporary illustration shows Blame: Prince AlbertVictor, Duke of Clarence,
Jack the Ripper attacking one of his victims is one of many Ripper 'suspects'
But now historian Dr Andrew Cook claims to have blown all these theories out of the water bydismissing the notion of a brutal, murderous spree by one 'serial killer' altogether. In his book Jack The Ripper: Case Closed, he argues that the famous letter bragging about the killings - signed'Jack the Ripper' in the first-ever use of that name - was actually forged by journalists desperate to sell their newspaper.
Dr Cook says streetwalkers Mary Nichols, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Kelly,Elizabeth Stride and Annie Chapman were killed by different men, as were the six other Whitechapel victims often added to the Ripper's toll. He takes his evidence from police and medical experts at thetime who expressed doubts about the single killer theory even as it began to take hold on the public imagination.
The senior Whitechapel policeman at the time of the killings admitted in his...
2. Do you know any other famous serial killer?
3. Why do you think stories of this kind attract people’s attention?
4. Read the followingarticle and consider if Dr Andrew Cook’ book makes any significant contribution to what you knew about Jack the Rippper:
[pic]
Tuesday, May 19 2009
Jack the Ripper 'was invented to win newspaperwar'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:45 AM on 01st May 2009
Jack the Ripper was a forgery invented by journalists to link a series of unrelated murders and sell newspapers, according toa new book. The unsolved murders of five prostitutes in London's East End in 1888 have spawned innumerable theories over the identity of the 'real' Jack the Ripper - with candidates including artistWalter Sickert, Alice In Wonderland author Lewis Carroll and even Queen Victoria's grandson the Duke of Clarence.
[pic] [pic]
'Myth': A contemporary illustration shows Blame: Prince AlbertVictor, Duke of Clarence,
Jack the Ripper attacking one of his victims is one of many Ripper 'suspects'
But now historian Dr Andrew Cook claims to have blown all these theories out of the water bydismissing the notion of a brutal, murderous spree by one 'serial killer' altogether. In his book Jack The Ripper: Case Closed, he argues that the famous letter bragging about the killings - signed'Jack the Ripper' in the first-ever use of that name - was actually forged by journalists desperate to sell their newspaper.
Dr Cook says streetwalkers Mary Nichols, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Kelly,Elizabeth Stride and Annie Chapman were killed by different men, as were the six other Whitechapel victims often added to the Ripper's toll. He takes his evidence from police and medical experts at thetime who expressed doubts about the single killer theory even as it began to take hold on the public imagination.
The senior Whitechapel policeman at the time of the killings admitted in his...
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