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Picture of Buck's Row Whitechapel in London's East End (now Durward St) - site of Jack the Ripper's first murder on 31 August 1888. Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols' body was discovered 3 metres back from the corner of the tall brick building.

Take a Ripper virtual tour from the first murder scene. Click on the map below to view all 5 murder scenes and other key locations in the hunt for the world's first recognised serial killer.

Buck's Row Whitechapel

Jack the Ripper's London 1888


View Jack the Ripper Walk, Whitechapel, Greater London UK in a larger map

This link will take you to the key points in London where Jack the Ripper carried out his 5 murders
over 71 days from 31 August 1888 to 9 November 1888. You can use this map to make your own Jack the
Ripper walk around London or to trace the movements of the Whitechapel killer whose identity has
never been established.

Jack the Ripper: New theory links sexual violence and a meatworker

The series of murders in East London's poor Whitechapel district in the 1880s created a frenzy of interest.

Jack the Ripper was most likely an East London slaughterhouse worker, says New Zealand-based animal welfare expert Professor Andrew Knight.

Knight said the way the prostitute victims were butchered matched techniques used by meat workers and not those of a surgeon - another popular theory.

This and other clues led him and Katherine Watson, an Oxford historian, to publish an academic paper on their Ripper theory earlier this year.

"We honestly think we have solved this case," Knight said.