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Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper kwam alleen als gecreeerde hoaxnaam voor in een publicatie. De moorden zijn mogelijk gepleegd door een enkele bende of verschillende bendes.
Several gangs were known to the police and believed to be operating in the area at that time, robbing and blackmailing honest tradesmen, fleecing drunken sailors and threatening prostitutes. The Blind Beggar Mob, a title derived from a public house in the Mile End Road where they used to meet, usually confined their criminal activities to the West End. The Hoxton Mob, or Hoxton High Rips, who were actually suspected of committing the Ripper murders. The Green Gate Gang and the immigrant gangs, the Bessarabians and the Odessians, as well as the gang which was suspected of killing Emma Smith, the Old Nichol Gang, who operated around Old Nichol Street, at the top of Brick Lane, close to where Smith was murdered.