Annie Millwood is possibly an early victim of the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper. There is a general consensus that Jack the Ripper killed five women in the Whitechapel district of London, during the Autumn of 1888. However, there have been 11 women linked to Ripper case. These 11 women are known as the Whitechapel murders. The Whitechapel Murders The Whitechapel murders include the five women who were believed to have been killed by Jack the Ripper. The Whitechapel murders took place between April 1888 and February 1891. They consisted of eleven women being murdered. Those women were (1) Emma Elizabeth Smith, (2) Martha Tabram, (3) Mary Ann Nichols, or Polly Nichols, (4) Annie Chapman, (5), Elizabeth Stride, (6) Catherine Eddowes, (7) Mary Jane Kelly, (8) Rose Mylett, (9) Alice McKenzie, (10) Frances Coles, (11) And an unidentified women, the only part of her they found was her torso. At the time, these women were the Whitechapel Murder victims. However, Annie Millwood was not in the Whitechapel Murder files, she wasn't named as one of the Whitechapel murder victims. It only seems as if she has been linked to the Ripper murders through contemporaries. In other words, Annie Millwood has been linked to the ripper case through secondary sources. These two secondary sources are from two different books published in the 1990s. One is called 'The Complete History Of Jack The Ripper' (1994), and the other is called 'From Hell: The Jack The Ripper Mystery' (1998). Before those two books, it doesn't appear as if she is mentioned as a victim of Jack the Rippers. Who Was Annie Millwood? Annie Millwood lived in White Row's Spitalfields, near Dorest Street in Whitechapel. She was 38 at the time of her attack and was possibly a prostitute at the time of her attack. But, she was working and living at the Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary around the time she was attacked. Annie was attacked on the 25th of February 1888. She showed up at the workhouse with several stab wounds to her body, both in her torso and in her legs. Annie survived the initial attack, only to die a month later of natural causes and not of her injuries. The Reporting Of Her Attack Annie's attack was reported in the Easter Post. They wrote this about the attack: "It appears the deceased was admitted to the Whitechapel Infirmary suffering from numerous stabs in the legs and lower part of the body. She stated that she had been attacked by a man who she did not know, and who stabbed her with a clasp knife which he took from his pocket. No one appears to have seen the attack, and as far as at present ascertained there is only the woman's statement to bear out the allegations of an attack, though that she had been stabbed cannot be denied." There were doubts at the time about Annie's attacked, she wasn't believed. Those at the time thought that her wounds were self-inflicted, that she stabbed herself. Annie didn't give a description of her attacker. It's possible that Annie Millwood was an early victim of Jack the Ripper's. The attacker's modus operandi, his attack to Annie's torso and legs, is similar to what Jack the Ripper did to his victims. It's also similar to another woman who was potentially a victim of Jack the Ripper's, Martha Tabram, who had similar wounds to that of Annie's. Whether or not Annie Millwood was a victim of Jack the Ripper's, we'll probably never know.
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