The crime scene was located about a half-mile from that of Nichols' crime scene at 28 Hanbury Street. I think the perpetrator of this act had sufficient time, or he would not have nicked the lower eyelids. Whitechapel within London’s East End is the notoriously grim district known for a series of murders that took place between Aug.

Mary Kelly, the last of the “Canonical Five” to be killed, lived in the Dorset Street neighborhood, which today, as Johnny explains, bears no resemblance to its 19th century description: “The 30 lodging houses, eight brothels, four pubs, and 2,000 of some of the worst people you could imagine—the sort of people that made Billy the Kid look like Winnie the Pooh—are gone. In Sweden, she had been on a registry of known prostitutes and had been treated for venereal disease many times. The City of London, aka the Square Mile—as designated on street signs and addresses by the EC1 postal code—is among the world’s preeminent economic epicenters, where immense wealth flows in and out from around the globe.The first victim that morning was Elizabeth Stride, whose body was found in Dutfield’s Yard, off Berner Street, and we pay a visit to the site to build up an impression of what it was like at the tie of the murder. She was moved from the mortuary at Shorditch to the graveyard at 12:30 pm on Monday, November 19th, 1888. At 11:00 pm, she was said to be very drunk and drinking with a young, respectable looking man with a dark mustache at the Britannia.

Today, the archways and cobbled streets inside the low, cloistered buildings are still as we imagine they were a century ago, minus the gas lamps with yellow halos barely able to light an area much larger than a foot of soot-filled air after midnight.

It’s difficult to imagine all of these people were out front and in the backyards of two adjacent apartments in the 30-minute window between Annie seen alive and Annie found dead without a definitive witness. The body of the first victim of the day, Elizabeth Stride, was found in Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street (now Henriques Street), at 1am. She moved to London in 1884, and may have stayed in a charitable house, the Providence Row Night Refuge, and worked as a charwoman. George Bagster Phillips made the post mortem report, but the carnage was so great that some of this information was suppressed for the public inquest.