Brief report.

1. What was the crime committed?
2. Who were involved?
(Criminal and victim)
3. How was it committed?
4. How was the case solved?
Who cracked the case?
5. Describe the techniques used.
(What evidence was collected? How was the evodemce analysed?)
6. Group reflections on the case.

CHOICE OF CASES:
Jack the Ripper (UK)
Simpson (US)
Adrian Lim (SG)
Huang Na (SG)
Nick Leeson (SG)
Anthony Ler/Lor (SG)

JACK THE RIPPER

From the testimony of various eyewitnesses, the police came up with a list of probabilities about the Ripper:
• A white male
• Average or below average height
• Between 20 and 40 years of age in 1888
• Did not dress as laborer or indigent poor
• Had lodgings in the East End
• Did have medical expertise, despite 1-2 opinions to contrary
• May have been foreigner
• Right-handed
• Had a regular job since the murders all occurred on weekends
• Was single so that he could roam streets at all hours

Sir Melville Macnaghten, who succeeded Sir Charles Warren as Chief Commisioner of the Metropolitan Police after the Ripper murders officially ended, identified three key suspectshe believed could be Jack the Ripper:

1) Mr. M. J. Druitt
- said to be a doctor and of good family background.
- found dead in the Thames one 31st December, 7 weeks after the last murder
- sexually insane
- his own family believed that he was the murderer

2) Kosminski
- a Polish Jew and resident in Whitechapel
- insane and had a great hatred of women (esp of the prostitute class)
- many circumstances that made him a 'strong' suspect

3) Michael Ostrog
- a Russian doctor and a convict
- a homicidal maniac
- whereabouts at the time of the murders never confirmed

How was it commited?

The first woman - Mary Ann Nicols aka "Polly", Age 42

- the daughter of a locksmith
- married William Nichols, a printer's machinist and had five children
- divorced due to very serious drinking problem
- lived by being a prostitute
- although a destitue woman, she was liked and pitied by people.

+ found lying on her bag, skits lifted to her waist
+ throat slasked from ear to ear with blood oozing out
+ eyes were wide open and staring
+ hands and wrists were cold, but warm in her arms suggested that she was not dead for a very long time (no longer than half an hour)
+ neck had been slashed twice, severing her windpipe and esophagus
+ killed where she was found but there was little blood, suggesting that she was dead before she was slashed.
+ abdomen had been wounded and mutilated, exhibited a long, deep jagged knife wound
+ bruised on the lower left jaw

> no witnesses, weapon or any other type of clues
> no vehicle or person seen escaping the scene

The second woman - Annie Chapman aka "Dark Annie", aged 47

- pathetic woman who was essentially homeless
- married to John Chapman, a coachman, and had three children
- divorced due to stress of the children's illness and heavy drinking
- eventually turned to prostitution to support herself

+ commited in daylight
+ deceased found lying on her back with her left arm across the left breast and legs drawn up with feet resting on the ground and knees turned outwards.
+ face was swollen and turned to the right side and the tongue protruded between the front teeth
+ small intestines and other internal portions were lying on the right side of the body above the right shoulder, still attached to the insides
+ large quantity of blood
+ body cold, with remaining heat
+ Stiffness of the body was just starting
+ throat dissevered deeply, incision of the skin was jagged and reached around the neck
+ abdomen has been entirely laid open with intestines severed from their mensenteric attachment
+ the uterus and its appendages, with the upper oprtion of the vagina and two-thirds of the bladder was entirely removed.
+ no trace of these parts could be found at the crime scene and the incisions were cleanly cut, showing professionalism in this area of dissection.

> although still no sign of escaping suspects, nor was there weapons found at the crime scene, there were witnesses this time round.
> the first witness is John Richardson (Mrs Amelia Richardson's son) who visted 29 Hanbury to check the locks on the cellar between 4.45am and 4.50am
> At that time, there was no body of Annie Chapman in the backyard

> The second witness is Albert Cadosch who lives next door to 29 Hanbury street
> heard voices coming from the backyard just after 5.20am
> few minutes later, at around 5.30am, heard the sound of something falling against the fence

> The most important witness was Mrs Elizabeth Long who was passing by 29 Hanbry street to the market at 5.30am.
> saw a man and a woman (later identified to be Annie) was conversing.
> Unfortunately, the man, who is most likely to be the murderer, was back facing Mrs Long.




okay wadever. supposed to be CID homework -___-
Jack the Ripper. damn pro
and DISGUSTING.
like wtf. who goes around slashing people's throats and taking out their organs and intestines and private organs lah.
wth zzz.
yuck.
yuck.
yuckkkkk.

i love mondays ;D because the only actual lessons are lang arts and chinese!
but there's this boring CID ):
nvm. i get to see hazel. and pekkhoon :D
basically, it's a slack day where i get to go home early and slack [: