The women were Elizabeth Stride, Mary Jane Kelly, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman and Catherine Eddowes. They are known as the ‘Canonical Five’ because out of all the murders at the time ...

Their names were Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. They were all desperately poor women who lived in the East End of London.

When the third victim of Jack the Ripper, Annie Chapman, was found in the yard of the Berner Street theatre, where the Worker’s Friend was printed, the Whitechapel community blamed the murders ...

In an attempt to solve the mystery, Stephen Knight concluded that five women-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-were murdered in 1888 to ...