Jack the Ripper killed twice in one night, in an event which has become known as ‘The Double Event’. The Double Event occurred during the early morning hours of the 30th of September 1888 within Whitechapel and within the City of London.
Both of these murders occurred in less than an hour of one another. The Double Event started that night with the murder of Elizabeth Stride. She was Jack the Ripper’s first victim that night, but she was the third or forth Jack the Ripper victim by the time of her murder. Elizabeth Stride was seen alive not long before she was found killed. She was seen alive in Berner Street in Whitechapel just before midnight. At 1am that morning, Elizabeth Stride’s body was found in Dutfield’s Yard by a man named Louis Diemschutz.
When Louis Diemschutz found Elizabeth Stride it was apparent that she had just been murdered by Jack the Ripper, as her body and face were still warm when Louis found her. This suggests that Jack the Ripper was interrupted during his murder of Elizabeth Stride, what further suggests that Jack the Ripper was interrupted during that first murder in the Double Event was that she didn’t have mutilations to her body, whereas, all of Jack the Ripper’s other victims did have mutilations to their body.
There is one final interesting thing about the murder of Elizabeth Stride during Jack the Ripper’s Double Event, and that is that Louis Diemshutz believed that Jack the Ripper was still in the yard when he entered it - with Louis going to seek help over Elizabeth’s murder, it allowed the Ripper to escape, however, had Louis Dimeshutz entered the yard he may have caught Jack the Ripper, and we would therefore, know today the idenity of Jack the Ripper.
The Second Murder Of Jack the Ripper’s Double Event
With Jack the Rippers murder of Elizabeth Stride not going to plan for him - in other words, by him being unsuccessful in mutilating Elizabeth Stride, he set on a quest to murder another victim. Sadly, that next victim would be murdered about an hour from the time that he murdered Elizabeth, his next victim was Catherine Eddowes. The Ripper could have been furious after he was interrupted, which possibly led him to seek out another victim. The Ripper seeking another victim on the night of the Double Event suggests that Jack the Ripper was out of control that night. The police were already on high alert for Jack the Ripper before Elizabeth’s death, as Jack by that point had already murdered two, possibly three victims so far that Autumn. But the murder of Elizabeth Stride on the night of the Double Event and Louis Diemshutz alerting the police to the killer just after 1am would have resulted in swarms of police all around Whitechapel looking for Jack the Ripper.
Therefore, it shows he was out of control as the police where all over Whitechapel by that point and he chose to struck again that night. His next victim was Catherine Eddowes.
Coincidentally, Catherine Eddowes was released from jail around the same time that Elizabeth Stride was murder during the Double Event. Catherine Eddowes murder in Jack the Ripper’s Double Event suggests to us that Jack the Ripper was being opportunistic in choosing his victims to kill - he couldn’t have possibly known that Catherine Eddowes was being released at that time, and her murder doesn’t seem planned - it seems like opportunism on behalf of Jack the Ripper when he murdered Catherine Eddowes that night. Catherine Eddowes was the second victim in Jack the Ripper’s Double Event that night. At around 8PM on the 29th of September, Catherine Eddowes was arrested for being drunk and disorderly on the street. By about 1am on the 30th of September 1888 Catherine Eddowes was sober and released from jail to go home. Shortly after that, Catherine Eddowes was murdered in Mitre Square by Jack the Ripper between 1.35am and 1.45am. This time, Jack the Ripper did mutilate Catherine Eddowes, and it was much more brutal than his previous mutilations.
As Catherine Eddowes was murdered in Mitre Square, it resulted in the City of London police being dragged into the Jack the Ripper case. From this point onwards, there became two police branches in London looking for Jack the Ripper - the City of London police and the Whitechapel police. Despite this, and despite Jack the Ripper being out of control on the night of the Double Event, he was never caught and his identity remains a mystery to this day.
Sources: http://www.rippervision.com/elizabeth-stride-the-body-in-the-yard/ https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/elizabeths-last-stride.html https://www.casebook.org/victims/stride.html https://www.casebook.org/victims/eddowes.html
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