Frances Coles was the last Whitechapel Murder File victim. In other words, she was the last woman named on the Whitechapel Murder File, dying on in February 1891. What Happened To Frances Coles? Frances Coles was found murdered under a railway arch in Whitechapel, on the 13th of February 1891. Her body was found under the railway arch in Whitechapel in Chamber Street and Royal Mint Street. Sadly the man who found Frances only found her a few minutes after her attack, had he been sooner, he might have saved her life. It was PC Ernest Thomson who found Coles body in the early hours of the morning, at 2.15am. One of the reasons that Coles has been linked to the Jack the Ripper case is due to some of the similarities of her murder - she was found in the early hours of the morning, she was a prostitute and her death didn't happen that long after the Canonical Five murders. What Is The Canonical Five? The Canonical Five is a name given to the five victims who were thought to have been killed by Jack the Ripper. Though, there are up to eleven women linked to the case, with the possibility of there being more victims. Though, we will never know the true extent and nature of the Jack the Ripper killings. Was Frances Coles A Victim Of Jack The Ripper's? On the surface it would seem like Frances was murdered by Jack the Ripper, she was a prostitute, who was murdered in the early morning hours and was murdered in Whitechapel. However, is this enough to say that she was victim of Jack the Ripper's? Not really. We have to take into consideration several other factors about her murder. Like the Ripper killings, Cole was killed through her throat being cut, however, the blade that was used to kill her, was a different blade than the one which Jack the Ripper used. We should also take into consideration that Jack got more violent and horrid the more he killed. There were also no mutilations on Frances Cole, with most of Jack's victims, with the exception of Elizabeth Stride, all of them had mutilations. ​Finally, if Jack the Ripper did really kill Frances Cole, then we did he take so long to kill again? If we take Mary Jane Kelly as Jack the Ripper's last victim, then why did it take him over two years to kill again? Perhaps that's a question for an expert criminologist or police officer. Maybe there were murders between those years that weren't discovered. Or maybe Cole's attacker and murderer wasn't Jack the Ripper. At the time, police suspected a man named James Sadler to be the Ripper at the time of Coles death. Sadler was charged with the murder of Frances Cole.
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