Martha Tabram
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crakatoot — 12 years ago(November 12, 2013 08:46 AM)
who else thinks she was the first victim. And I'm not talking about the movie but in real life.
I think she must have been, think about it, she was kill in Whitechapel , a few weeks before Polly Nichols. Now since most of the murders took place around the weekend most people think Jack must have had some regular day job and while Martha wasn't killed on a weekend she was killed right before a bank holiday meaning Jack would have had off from his job. And the reason she isn't considered a jack victim is because her throat wasn't slit. The other five, there throats were slit before they were further mutilated. But Martha she was just stabbed a bunch of times. 39 times in fact. a bit excessive. Like think about it even though her throat wasn't slit since she was probably Jacks first victim so he was probably still new to killing and he wasn't sure how to do it. It probably didn't go well so when he got to Polly he tried something different, the throat slitting and that worked well so he kept at it. Plus with Martha she wasn't robbed or sexually assaulted just killed, like all of Jacks other victims. And if some regular guy just wanted to kill her he probably could have just stabbed her ten or fifteen times. But thirty nine times, that's a lot. like who ever did it wasn't just trying to kill the victim but actually mutilate them , like Jack. any ripperolgist out there agree.
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Bergman_Fellini87 — 9 years ago(December 23, 2016 09:53 PM)
When I first visited the area, I had stuck with the Canonical Five, but seeing how close Gunthorpe Street is (formerly George Yard, where Tabram was murdered) to the other sites, I think it is a possibility she was a Ripper victim. And although it was a different MO to the others, it was still a really vicious attack.