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Regarding Jack the Ripper, only Mary Jane Kelly was known as a prostitute by trade, and she was not soliciting on the night she was murdered. Only two of the five canonical victims were actively soliciting the night they were killed, Elizabeth Stride and Annie Chapman but were rather part of the many East-End unfortunates in serious need of money and occasionally into prostitution. For the past 10 years, I've been interested in the JTR case and even recently published a novel covering one of the suspects, Francis Tumblety.
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Bernard wrote: "Regarding Jack the Ripper, only Mary Jane Kelly was known as a prostitute by trade, and she was not soliciting on the night she was murdered. Only two of the five canonical victims were actively so..."It was certainly not a good time for many who lived or worked in Whitechapel in the late 1800s. Impoverishment and decrepit conditions forced more than a few to do things to survive the mean streets, including prostitution.
It will be interesting to watch the ABC sci fi series next year, "Time After Time," about the Ripper traveling to the future to carry on his ways.
R. wrote: "It was certainly not a good time for many who lived or worked in Whitechapel in the late 1800s..."Actually, only a few managed to 'survive' the East End before and after JTR. When the Ripper began his killing spree, business activity went down during the evenings and resulted in the creation of vigilante committees. Those who kept flourishing were dwelling owners who made more money per square feet in the East End than in any other part of London. They often rented apartments transformed into single rooms on a 12-hour basis; families packed in a room during the night hours and night labourers during the day charging of 3-4 pence per person per day! The following link will give an idea of how it was.
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/s...
Jack the Ripper, the unidentified Victorian serial killer of at least five prostitutes in the dangerous section of London, known as Whitechapel, in 1888. The Ripper, who slashed and horribly mutilated his sex worker victims, set the tone for diabolical, vicious serial slayers to follow for all time.
Aileen Wuornos was a white American prostitute, who doubled as a serial killer in murdering seven johns in Florida between 1989 and 1990. She claimed they tried to or succeeded in raping her during the course of prostituting herself. In the process, Wuornos ended up being apropos for this book as a sex worker and serial predator.
Kendall Francois was an African American serial killer, dubbed the “Poughkeepsie Killer,” who strangled to death eight streetwalker prostitutes in Poughkeepsie, New York, between 1996 and 1998. Francois used his own residence as a horrifying house of homicides and burial ground.
The Edmonton Serial Killer represented one or more mostly unidentified serial killers who targeted and murdered dozens of prostitutes in the city of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, between the mid-1970s and the early 2000s, and possibly beyond that. The sex trade worker victims were often picked up in the city’s red-light district stroll, murdered, and dumped in various killing fields in rural areas around Edmonton.
As bonus material, the book will also chronicle the infamous and colorful 19th century New Orleans prostitute and serial killer, Mary Jane Jackson, and modern-day American serial killers of prostitutes, Walter Ellis, nicknamed the “North Side Strangler,” and Vincent Johnson, dubbed the “Brooklyn Strangler.”
For fans of true crime tales and literary criminology, this gripping volume written by someone with the verisimilitude that the subject matter deserves will surely hold your attention in anticipation for volume two and beyond.
Available today in Kindle and print in Amazon and soon in audio.
https://www.amazon.com/Serial-Killers...