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Mary Pearcey, who was convicted of the murders of Phoebe Hogg and her baby daughter, was hanged for the slayings 125 years ago this coming Wednesday December the 23rd. Pearcey sometimes is mentioned as a possible female perpetrator of the Jack the Ripper murders.
 
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The 125th anniversary of the murder of Frances Coles is this coming Saturday, February 13 of 1891. Her's is the last London murder many think might have been done by JtR. An acquaintance named Thomas Sadler was originally suspected but he was eventually released. R. I. P. Frances.
 
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The Coles murder site (125 years ago today) is the only "Ripper" murder site that still exists pretty much as it was then.
 
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Yes, the Ripper had this "rival" in addition to the Torso Killer. The Georgina Moore Murder is also thought to be possibly connected to the Ham Vanishings. Esther Pay was tried for that murder but acquitted. There was a popular belief at the time that the Ham Vanishing Killer was a woman because several of the girls were seen with an unknown woman shortly before they disappeared.
 
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I wonder why no one tries to associate these crimes with JtR since some people do try to put little John Gill on his tally.

Colin Wilson gives an account of these "Vanishing" murders in his The Mammoth Book of the History of Murder but he only includes the cases from 1881-1890.

I have the case at #129 on my eventual top 1000+ classic unsolved murders list.
 
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As pointed out elsewhere, the more time people spend focusing on Jack the less they seem to care about or empathise with the five women who lost their lives as anything other than Ripper-fodder for the myth.
 
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This Sunday, the 24th, is the 125th anniversary of the mutilation murder of Carrie Brown in New York. I think this is "the last" murder commonly mentioned as a possible Ripper slaying so that pretty much wraps up the 125th anniversaries. See you next year with the 130th anniversary of "the first", the Rainham Mystery.
 
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According to the Ripper sites, eminent Riperologist and true-crime writer Richard Whitington-Egan died today.

R.I.P. Richard (1924-2016)
 
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I read an article (it's probably been a couple of years ago) that made me believe that the murders were done by more than one killer and had no connection to one another except that the East End was a cess pool to live in in those days if you were poor. It stated that the name Jack the Ripper was coined by journalists who wrote fake letters and sent them to the police to sensationalize the crimes.
 
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