text: etters the police have received. You will never find out: senior police officers fearing the graffiti might inspire hostility against the Jewish community in London order the chalk washed away hours later.
  
  > With much to think about you head home
  You go home and have a strong drink to recover. Inspector Abberline arrives at your house just hours later as the morning sunlight is creeping over London.
  
  "We need to move fast if we are to find evidence that will lead us to this bastard," he tells you, looking more angry and determined than you have seen him yet. "We have identified the dead woman in Dutfield's Yard as Elizabeth Stride and the woman in Mitre Square as Catherine Eddowes, both prostitutes working in the Whitechapel district. I want you to investigate Mrs Stride's murder while I will handle the investigation into Mrs Eddowes's killing. Dr Phillips has conducted an autopsy and also listed Mrs Stride's possessions and can supply you this information if you visit him. We have also traced Mrs Stride's partner Mr Kidney to an address on Commercial Road."
  
  Abberline opens his ever-present notebook.
  
  "We have been overrun with eyewitnesses. A Mr Gardner, Mr Marshall, Mr Packer, one of our own Policemen Constable Smith and Mr Schwartz all claim to have seen Mrs Stride with a suspicious man on the night of her death and Mr Coram has found a bloodied knife in the street that may be relevant. I would like you to chase these leads up and see which are credible. Depending on your findings I may have some useful information to share with you."
  
  Feeling slightly overwhelmed you prepare yourself for your latest investigation.
  
  > talk to Dr Phillips to learn about Elizabeth Stride's autopsy and view her possessions
  Going to Dr Phillip's mortuary he presents you with a very brief autopsy report: Elizabeth Stride was killed when her throat was cut and no other wounds were inflicted. You go through her possessions, in her pockets were found a key, a pencil, several buttons, two combs, a spoon, a hook, a strip of cloth, a thimble, a reel of thread, some handkerchiefs and a few scraps of paper. Her clothes are likewise unremarkable, shabby and blood-stained. Two interesting objects were found on her however, the packet of Cachous and the flower pinned to her dress.
  
  "She never had time to swallow one as none were found her mouth," Dr Phillips says indicating the breath mints. "The flower is interesting, her friends say she was not wearing it at the time she left her lodging house about five hours before her murder. At some point in the intervening time she must have brought it or had it brought for her as a gift from someone." You examine the flower closely, it is a beautiful and fresh red and white fern.
  
  Laying it down you thank Dr Phillips for his help and move on.
  
  > talk to Elizabeth Stride's partner Mr Kidney
  You go to Mr Kidney's house on Commercial Road to find him a drunk and emotional man.
  
  "I've known Liz for years," he declares. "She came here from Sweden twenty years back, she told me her husband and children drowned when the Princess Alice sank ten years ago. We've stuck together through the highs and lows, been arrested a few times for being but who hasn't round here? We had our fighs sometimes and split up, it was always the drink that made her go away but she always came back. She said she liked me more than any other man."
  
  He pauses to take an impressively big gulp from a bottle of gin at his side and blinks at you.
  
  "We spoke about this Ripper you know? She told me 'Me and my friends, we're all up to no good, no one cares what becomes of us. Perhaps some of us will be killed next.' If you gave me a dozen coppers I would find this murderous fuck. I'd get him right in the act and see him hung like a dog from a noose in Tyburn for what he did to Liz... she never did any harm to anyone and helped many who didn't deserve such kindness. She was a good girl."
  
  Thanking Mr Kidney for his time you leave.
  
  > talk to Witness Mr Gardner who saw the victim with a suspicious man
  Going to Chapman Street you meet Mr Gardner, a burly dockside laborer.
  
  "I saw this woman Liz Stride who I knew near the door of the Bricklayer's Arms Pub when me and my mate went in for a drink around 11pm," he tells you. "She was hugging and kissing a man and me and my pal were surprised by how much they were getting into it. The man wore a suit and coat, he was a short man with a dark mustache and hair. I'd already had a few drinks and thought this was pretty funny so I called out to her "that's Leather Apron getting on your good side Liz." They left soon after."
  
  You thank Mr Gardner for his information.
  
  > talk to Witness Mr Marshall who saw the victim with a suspicious man
  You go to Berner Street where you meet Mr Marshall, a middle-aged labourer.
  
  "I was heading home just before midnight when I saw this woman Elizabeth Stride standing with a man in a doorway just down from my house," he tells you. "The man wore a suit and was on the stout side, he also had on a small peaked cap like a sailor might wear but his suit looked more like a clerk. I recognized the woman the photo in the papers only when I saw her she didn't have no flower pinned to her jacket. The couple were kissing and as I walked by the man said to her 'you would say anything but your prayers', I didn't linger to spy on their love-making but went right into my house and off to bed."
  
  This might be linked to other testimony you have heard.
  
  > talk to Witness Mr Packer who saw the victim with a suspicious man
  You go to see Mr Packer, an elderlr man who runs a fruit shop on Berner Street close to where the body was found.
  
  "I saw this Catherine Eddowes... no Elizabeth Stride woman at 11pm... or was it midnight?" he says in a confused, halting sort of way. "She came by with a young man with a black coat, a hat and a rough voice. She was playing with a sort of red and white flower and after he brought them both grapes they moved off. This happened last night... or was it the night before? Anyway I saw the man again in the street this morning, he stared at me for a while before running away when I challenged him."
  
  Unsure what to make of this old man's confused statements you thank him and move on.
  
  > talk to Witness PC Smith who saw the victim with a suspicious man
  You go to talk to PC Smith an experienced officer with a professional manner.
  
  "I was walking down Berner Street just after 12.30am when I saw a man and a woman standing on the pavement opposite the entrance to Dutfield's Yard where the dead woman's body was later found," he tells you consulting his notebook. "I am certain the woman I saw was Elizabeth Stride. Her companion was a young man in dark clothes in an hat, overall he looked respectable. He was carrying a parcel about twenty inches long and several inches wide. The woman had a red and white flower on her jacket. I didn't hear them say anything as I walked by but they didn't seem in any way drunk. When I walked back down the street thirty minutes later two police officers and a small crowd had already gathered outside the yard to view the body. I remember seeing you there sir but I don't know if you remember me."
  
  You don't but pretending you do you thank PC Smith for his interesting information.
  
  > talk to Witness Mr Schwartz who saw the victim with a suspicious man
  Mr Schwartz is a nervous little man who hurries you into his home in Backchurch Lane when you visit him.
  
  "I was walking down Fairclough Street when I saw a stout man in a black coat and hat leading the dead woman down the road," he tells you looking frightened. "She said 'no not tonight, some other night'. They turned into Berner Street. By the time I arrived I saw them standing in the gateway where the murder happened. The man seized the woman and threw her down on the pavement and she gave some quiet cries of alarm. Across the street a second man was lighting his pipe."
  
  Schwartz takes a deep breath and goes on.
  
  "This second man was middle-aged with dark hair and a brown mustache. He wore an overcoat and an old black hat. I didn't see the first man clearly. The man who threw drown the woman called out to the one with the pipe 'Lipski'. I turned to walk away and the second man, the one with the pipe, began following me. I ran as fast as I could and the man stopped following me. About fifteen minutes later I heard the first cries of "murder" in the street and saw people running towards Berner Street."
  
  You frown at Schwartz unsure what to make of him and uncomfortably aware that he is suggesting that the Ripper does not work alone. Thanking him you move on.
  
  > talk to Witness Mr Coram who saw the victim with a suspicious man
  Going to Plumber's Row you meet Mr Coram, a warehouse packer.
  
  "Soon after the murder I was walking along Whitechapel Road in the morning when I saw a knife lying on the edge of the street," he tells you. "It was about ten inches long, blood-stained and had a white blood-stained handkerchief tied around it's handle. I gave the knife to a policeman who said he had passed the spot fifteen minutes before and that the knife had not been there then. He told me later that he took it to Dr Phillips who said it was probably not the weapon used to murder those women. I don't know where the knife is now."
  
  You thank Mr Coram for his interesting information.
  
  > wrap up this investigation
  Feeling tired after hearing so much confusing testimony you go home and the next day Inspector Abberline calls on you. He looks tired too.
  
  "We've now got at least a dozen witnesses including a pony who may have seen the killer and I'm not sure any of them are reliable," Abberline tells you, shaking his head. "Apart from the bodies we've got precious little physical evidence and the public are not helping: everybody has a theory. I even had to deal with one woman who kept insisting that Elizabeth Stride was her sister until two of my officers found her sister living alive and well in a nearby street. Still, out of all the witness descriptions of the men with Elizabeth Stride on the night she was killed who sounds most likely to be the murderer?"
  
  > tell Abberline about the stout man in the suit who Stride was seen kissing
  Abberline listens to your description and sighs.
  
  "A little man in a suit with a sailor's hat with dark hair and mustache who was embracing and kissing Mrs Stride in front of a crowded pub and in a busy street? I think he sounds more like a boyfriend or client than a potential killer to me and besides he'd left the scene by midnight when the other men were seen with Stride."
  
  Your poor detective work damages your Reputation.
  
  > Abberline tells you about his investigation of Catherine Eddowes's murder
  "Now as you know I have been looking into Catherine Eddowes's killing and we have a pretty good idea of her movements on the night she died," Abberline tells you. "It seems she spent most of the night in a jail cell for being drunk and disorderly but was released less than an hour before she was killed. Her belongings are with Dr Frederick Brown of the London Police and we have traced her partner John Kelly to a lodging house in Flower and Dean Street. Sergeant Byfield was the Desk Sergeant at Bishopsgate Police Station who discharged Mrs Eddowes while a Mr Lawende and some friends claim to have seen Mrs Eddowes talking to an unknown man near Mitre Square just ten minutes before her body was found."
  
  Abberline looks up from his notebook at you.
  
  "I think you might find it useful to talk to some of these witnesses to see if you can uncover any facts I've missed. Specifically I want you to visit Dr Brown and take a look at Mrs Eddowes's belongings... I am forming a theory about the way our killer operates and I want to see if the evidence you find supports this theory or not. Hopefully we can start to get the upper hand over this brute if we can understand how he thinks and operates."
  
  Agreeing to help you set out once more.
  
  > talk to Dr Brown so you can see Catherine Eddowes's possessions
  Going over to Dr Brown's mortuary in the City of London (the heart of the financial district) you go inside. You get a shock when you see Catherine Eddowes's naked body hanging from a hook on the wall directly opposite the door, it's savaged face drooping lifelessly. A massive pile of clothes and possessions lie on the floor in front of her. Dr Brown gives you permission to look through them: among her belongings are two small bags, two smoking pipes, two boxes containing tea and sugar, a matchbox, fifteen rags, six chunks of soap, a comb, a small butter knife, a tea spoon, a very expensive-looking red leather cigarette case, a ball of string, a dirty apron with a piece cut out of it, several buttons, some receipts for selling a shirt and boots, a pair of glasses and a cheap red glove.
  
  You look carefully through the items as some are more important than others.
  
  > talk to Catherine Eddowes's partner Mr Kelly
  You meet Catherine Eddowes's partner Mr Kelly at their home on Flower and Dean Street, he is a sickly-looking middle-aged man with a wracking cough who is so overwhelmed with sadness he can barely speak.
  
  "I took up with her several years ago after she split with her last partner," he says hoarsely. "We took one of her two children in to live with us, the other stays with her mother. Catherine liked a drink but I swear to you she was no prostitute. We've been hard up lately and she had to sell one of my shirts and a pair of boots a little while back. I left her at 2pm on the afternoon before her death and heard that evening she'd been arrested for being drunk. I don't know how she got the money to buy drink as she didn't have any when we parted. That was the last I heard of her until I saw- I saw her in the morgue... and-"
  
  Kelly breaks into sobs and buries his face in his hands. You quietly leave.
  
  > talk to Sergeant Byfield who was one of the last people to see the victim alive
  You go to Bishopsgate Police Station where you find Sergeant Byfield, a sensible middle-aged police officer he gives you a straight-forward account.
  
  "Mrs Eddowes was brought in just before 9pm sir," he tells you. "She was hardly able to stand and fell asleep as soon as we put her in one of the cells. Soon after midnight she woke up and started singing loudly before asking me to release her. She seemed steady enough so I let her out around 1am. She asked for the time and I told her it was too late for her to buy any more drink. 'I'll get a damn fine hiding when I get home,' she told me. 'It serves you right, you had no right to get so drunk,' I told her. She said goodnight to me and went out the front door, shutting it behind her. Forty-five minutes later her body was found in Mitre Square."
  
  You thank Sergeant Byfield for his information.
  
  > talk to Mr Lawende who saw the victim with a suspicious man
  You go to Norfolk Road where you meet Mr Lawende, a surprisingly wealthy-looking gentleman in a suit who speaks English with a Polish accent.
  
  "Me and my friends came out of the Norfolk Club just after 1.30am," he tells you. "Near the entrance to Mitre Square we saw this lady Mrs Eddowes talking to a man. I only got a brief glimpse of him as I walked by but I suppose he was around thirty with fair hair and mustache and a suit. He wore a red handkerchief across his neck which made me think of him as a sailor. The couple weren't arguing in any way, just talking. I passed them by and didn't think anything of it until I read about the murder the next day."
  
  You are impressed by Mr Lavender's matter-of-fact description and thank him for his help.
  
  > wrap up this investigation
  Having finished your inquiry into Catherine Eddowes's murder you return to your home where Inspector Abberline drops by in the evening. You ask him how his investigation is going.
  
  "Not well," he admits. "We had three men in custody at the time of the double murder a few nights ago: a crazy butcher called Jacob Isenschmid, a lunatic who was screaming he hated all women when we arrested him called William Piggott and a German man who threatened his friend with a knife called Charles Ludwig were all under arrest under suspicion of being the Ripper but we had to release them after somebody else killed Stride and Eddowes. That is by the by though, more importantly did you find any interesting items in Mrs Eddowes's things?"
  
  You think back to the large collection of items taken off the dead woman to try and recall if any particularly stood out.
  
  > talk to Abberline about the expensive red cigarette case
  Abberline smiles and nods.
  
  "Exactly," he declares. "Mr Kelly told me he and Eddowes were so short on money they had to sell one of his old shirts and a pair of shoes. If Mrs Eddowes had no money how did she come into possession of an expensive cigarette case and find the money to get drunk the evening of her death? My theory is that the Ripper gave her this item and probably the money too. My theory is the Ripper meets his victims beforehand and gets to know them, build up a trust if you will before he kills them. Even now my guess is there are prostitutes out there who know his face, maybe even his name. These women are in great danger though, we must find him."
  
  Your good work has improved your Reputation with the police.
  
  > Abberline produces another letter
  "We have just received this postcard from the killer today," Abberline tells your and reads it:
  
  "I was not kidding dear old Boss when I gave you the tip, you'll hear about Saucy Jack's work tomorrow, double event this time. Number one squealed a bit, couldn't finish straight off. Ha, not the time to get ears for police. Thanks for keeping last letter back till I got to work again. Jack the Ripper.'
  
  "I'm convinced it was written by the same man who wrote the earlier 'dear boss' letter promising to cut one of his victim's ears off as he did with Mrs Eddowes," Abberline tells you." This killer is toying with us and the bugger's enjoying himself."
  
  Abberline is interrupted by a Policeman bursting through the door into your study.
  
  "Sir they've found another body, this one right inside the grounds of Scotland Yard!"
  
  "But that's the third in three days!" Abberline exclaims looking thunderstruck.
  
  Your legs suddenly feel weak and you sink into a chair.
  
  > The three of you rush to Scotland Yard
  When you arrive at Scotland Yard you find yourself confronted by a real mystery: the decomposing torso of a woman has been found in one of the police headquarter's old vaults partly wrapped in paper. The limbs have been sawn off but otherwise all the organs remain inside. It is estimated by doctors the victim has been dead around two months and they do not think this is the work of the Ripper. Later the woman's arms are fished out of the Thames and strangely enough police doctors suggest they thinks the victim died of natural causes but can't explain why she was disposed of in this terrible manner. Inspector Abberline decides it must be some medical students playing a horrible prank.
  
  In the weeks following the double murder your investigation goes nowhere and still hundreds of letters, most allegedly written by the Ripper pour into Scotland Yard. Abberline sends you the most credible to read.
  
  One addressed to an unknown source reads says "You thought yourself very clever I reckon when you informed the police. But you made a mistake if you thought I didn't see you. Now I know you know me and I see your little game and I mean to finish you and send your ears to your wife. If you show this to the police or help them... if you do I will finish you. It's no use your trying to get out of my way because I have you when you don't expect it and I keep my word as you soon see and rip you up. Yours truly Jack the Ripper PS you see I know your address."
  
  The most chilling letter is sent to George Lusk, a prominent London resident who has personally offered a large reward for the killer's capture.
  
  The most chilling of all these letters is sent to George Lusk, a private citizen offering a generous reward for the capture of the Whitechapel killer. Accompanying the letter was half of a woman's kidney, kidneys being one of the many organs removed from Catherine Eddowes. The letter reads: "From Hell. Mr Lusk, sir. I send you half the kidney I took from one woman and preserved it for you, the other piece I fried and ate. It was very nice. I may send you the bloody knife that took it out if you only wait a while longer. Catch me if you can Mister Lusk."
  
  When Dr Openshaw, a Police Doctor, publishes his opinion that the kidney may have come from Catherine Eddowes he too received a letter from the Ripper. This one reads: "Old Boss you were right, it was the left kidney. I was going to operate again close to your hospital, just as I was going to draw my knife along her throat those coppers spoiled the game but I guess I will be on the job soon and will send you another bit of innerds. Jack the Ripper. O have you seen the devil with his microscope and scalpel looking at a kidney with a slide?"
  
  You are beginning to find yourself unable to sleep at night, knowing another lady's life hangs in the balance. Abberline is just as stressed, one week he has to travel up to Birmingham where a drunk called Alfred Blanchard claims to be the Ripper (several friends come forward providing alibis). Soon after two London men, William Bull and Benjamin Graham both claim to be Jack the Ripper as well and again Abberline has to waste his time interviewing them only for friends to clear them. One promising lead, a French criminal called John Langan, is found to have been in Boulogne at the time of the murders.
  
  > Inevitably the Ripper kills again and you are unable to stop him
  You are not prepared for the horrors you will witness today.
  
  You are eating lunch when a visibly shaken Policeman calls you from the window. Though it is nearly noon you know at once what has happened and hurry with him to Millers Court on Dorset Street. Several policemen are standing outside the ground floor door of one of the rooms. Incredibly though there are six experienced veteran Policemen on the scene not one of them is willing to enter the room. Two are sitting on the ground and one is actually crying, tears running uncontrollably down his face.
  
  As you approach the window you know it's going to be bad but you have no idea how bad.
  
  Whatever is lying on the bed in that room has not been killed. It has been obliterated.
  
  The shape lying on the bed is only vaguely recognizable as human. The face has been completed hacked apart and the chest torn open, emptied of it's organs which are scattered around the room. The bed and walls around it are drenched with blood. The only thing that has escaped destruction are the legs. A badly slashed left arm rests inside the open chest cavity. A full set of women's clothes are lying neatly folded on a chair near the bed.
  
  You have never even heard of one person doing this to another person before and now you have just seen it. It is little wonder the Policemen outside don't want to go into the bedroom. When the Police Doctor, Dr Bond, arrives even he looks stunned by the level of carnage. He declares he has treated train wreck and coal-fire victims but this is the worst he's ever seen. You're as brave as any other person but you've had enough. You can't deal with this.
  
  Returning home you sit in a chair and cry uncontrollably for forty-five minutes for this unknown woman you've been trying to save but couldn't. You manage to pull yourself together when Abberline arrives. The tough old Inspector looks sick. In robotic movements he draws out his notebook and opens it.
  
  "Mary Jane Kelly," he says flatly. "Twenty-five. Her friends say she was beautiful. Her partner is a Joseph Barnett. Witnesses Mrs Cox and Mr Hutchinson saw her with a man. Witness Mrs Prater heard someone cry out "murder". Witness Mrs Maxwell claims to have seen Mrs Kelly this morning though Dr Phillips is certain that she was killed in the night. These are the people I want you to talk to."
  
  "I'm out," you tell him. "I've had enough. We'll never catch him."
  
  "Yes we fucking will," Abberline says ferociously. "Because if we don't he'll never be punished. He'll just keep on killing and killing. You have to get out there and help me find this cunt. He's human. He'll make mistakes. If someone does enough bad then soon or later it will come back to get them, a criminal can't do anything against people who are in the right and who keep on after them. All they can do is run. Sooner or later we will catch up to him and when we do... he's dead."
  
  Gritting your teeth you set out once more.
  
  > talk to Mary Kelly's partner Mr Barnett
  Joseph Barnett is a man of medium height, about thirty years old with a mustache. He clutching a bottle of ginger beer looking utterly destroyed when you find him sitting near the entrance of Miller's Court.
  
  "I've been with Mary for about a year," he tells you in a monotone. "She was born in Ireland but grew up in Wales. She had a husband before me but he died in a fire. I lost my job a little while back, I was a porter in the market, and Mary went back on the game... I left her after that. She was a good lass, beautiful and not an alcoholic but she knew how to drink. She had lots of friends and everyone liked her... I don't know why someone would do this to her. I can't understand it. I just can't."
  
  You thank Mr Barnett for his information
  
  > talk to Witness Mrs Cox who saw the victim with a suspicious man
  Mrs Cox is a middle-aged widow with a pale, thin face and she tells you her story through tears.
  
  "I knew Mary well," she tells you. "Last night I headed to my home in Millers Court just before midnight to get something when I saw Mary walking ahead of me with a stout man in an overcoat. He was about 35 with a blotchy face, a mustache and was carrying a pint of beer. He led her to her room and said 'goodnight' and she said 'goodnight, I am going to sing.' Mary was very drunk and soon after I went to my room I could hear her singing the lament 'A violet for my mother's grave.' I went out again soon after and she was still singing... I got back in at three. At that time there was no sound or light coming from Mary's room. I went to bed, during the night I occasionally heard people going in and out of the Court but nothing to until the alarm was raised at lunchtime."
  
  You thank Mrs Cox for her information and move on.
  
  > talk to Witness Mr Hutchinson who saw the victim with a suspicious man
  You find Mr Hutchinson, an unemployed labourer, at his home on Commercial Street where he has a very interesting story to tell.
  
  "At 2am I was walking down Flower and Dean Street when I saw Mary who I knew well enough," he tells you. "She said 'Mr Hutchinson can you lend me sixpence'. I told her I couldn't because I'd spent all my money visiting Romford that day. 'I must go and find some money,' Mary told me. She walked on past me and met a man who put his hand on her shoulder. He said something quietly to her that made her laugh and reply 'all right'. The man told her 'you will be alright for what I have told you."
  
  Hutchinson nods and smiles at your keen interest.
  
  "I was interested too, it was strange to see Mary with such a well-dressed man so I followed them towards Dorset Street. The man had a small parcel in his left hand. He had a mustache, dark hair, a hat pulled low over his eyes, a dark coat and a black neck tie. He wore a gold chain on his waistcoat and I would put his age at around 35. They walked to Miller's Court and stopped there talking for a bit. Mary said 'all right my dear, come along. You will be comfortable.' The man hugged Mary who kissed him before suddenly saying 'I've lost my handkerchief'. The man pulled a red one out of his pocket, gave it to her and they went into the Court."
  
  You stare at Hutchinson, mental alarm bells ringing. The man with Mary Kelly gave her a handkerchief! If you're investigations have taught you anything (and hopefully they have) it is that the killer you are hunting is in the habit of giving little gifts to his victims. You are a little surprised by the level of detail in Hutchinson's description, your guess is that he had more than a friendly interest in Mary Kelly which might be why he was keeping such a close eye on the well-dressed man who was with her.
  
  Thanking him for his information (which may be the most important you have heard yet) you head on.
  
  > talk to Witness Mrs Prater who heard someone cry "murder"
  Mrs Prater, a middle-aged woman with a bad hangover, looks shell-shocked when you interview her outside Miller's Court. Her room is directly above Mary Kelly's.
  
  "I went in to bed at around 1.30am," she says quietly. "I passed Mary's room but heard nothing and saw no light. In the middle of the night, around 4am, I heard a woman's voice call out 'murder' once or twice, not as a scream as such but loud enough to be heard. I paid no attention because we often hear such cries in this neighborhood, also I was very tired. The next morning I went out at 5.30am for a drink, I saw no one and went back to bed until 11 when I got woken up by all the policemen outside Mary's room. I went down and looked in... I only looked for a second but if I live to be one hundred I'll never forget that sight."
  
  You understand exactly what she means
  
  > talk to Witness Mrs Maxwell who claims to have seen the victim this morning
  You go to Mrs Maxwell's home on Dorset Street and find she is a practical and fast-talking woman.
  
  "I do not know the murdered woman well but I am certain that I saw her at 8.30am this morning," she tells you straight away. "She was leaning against a wall and told me she felt bad. I suggested she get a drink at the Britannia Pub, she told me she already had and pointed to a patch of vomit. I went into a shop and when I came back Mrs Kelly was talking to a man outside the pub. He was about thirty and dressed like a market porter. About an hour after that I'm sure I saw her inside the Britannia drinking with some people, that would be around 10am.
  
  "You are saying that you saw Mary Kelly alive and well an hour before her body was found and several hours after the Doctor said she died?" you ask to make sure.
  
  Mrs Maxwell nods.
  
  "I know how it must sound but I am sure it was the murdered woman. I had only spoken to her twice before but I am sure it was her. I have seen her around Millers Court for the last four months."
  
  You nod thoughtfully and thanking her for her time you move on.
  
  > wrap up this investigation
  That afternoon you return to your home to await Inspector Abberline's inevitable visit. When he arrives a few days later he looks exhausted.
  
  "We're getting a lot of contradictory claims and wild theories about when Mrs Kelly was killed and even people claiming it wasn't her who was killed at all as because of the incredible amount of damage done to the body it's proving difficult to identify her. When do you think she was killed?"
  
  > tell him Mary Kelly was killed in the night by a man she brought back to her room
  Inspector Abberline listens thoughtfully to your opinion and nods slowly.
  
  "I agree. I have spoken to this man Hutchinson and I think if any witness testimony we've heard yet is to be believed it is his, his description tallies very closely with the man PC Smith saw with Elizabeth Stride. Hutchinson mentioned the man gave Mrs Kelly a red handkerchief, it is likely he is the same man who I believe earned the trust of the other victims with little gifts including money. I think if we know what he looks like we are much closer to catching him. You have done good work here."
  
  Your Reputation with the police has improved.
  
  > It is time to take back control from the Ripper
  Inspector Abberline pulls out a cigar and lights it, the first time you have seen him smoke. Clearly the stress of this case is getting to him.
  
  "Let's look at what we know," he declares. "In the last three months this killer has murdered at least six prostitutes if we could Martha Tabram and eight if we include Emma Smith and the body fragments we found in Scotland Yard. We are no nearer to identifying him now that we were three months ago, our most reliable witnesses describe him as a dark-haired well-dressed man with a mustache around 35. He may carry a package with him that contains his knife. We know how he operates: he earns the trust of his victims with little gifts and money before going some place secluded with them, slitting his throat and killing them."
  
  Abberline suddenly throws the cigar to the floor in a flash of irritation.
  
  "God that tastes like shit. We know how the man works, we've got people who've seen him and heard him speak, god-damn it we've even got letters from the bastard! How the hell have we not caught him yet? We've been close. When that cabman found Elizabeth Stride's body the Ripper was there, hiding in that yard. When he killed Tabram (if that was him), when he killed Nichols and when he killed Chapman people heard him, but for an opened door, a glance out a window or a peek over a fence they would have seen him in the act! Still he eludes us. We've been going in the wrong direction perhaps. Let's look at our suspects."
  
  Calming down Abberline opens his notebook.
  
  "First there is James Kelly who killed his wife with a knife five years ago and escaped prison earlier this year. We raided his old home this morning and found no trace of him. Next we have all these men who have come forward claiming to be the Ripper, the latest was a drunk soldier called John Avery who we arrested yesterday after he claimed to be the Ripper. We've sentenced him to two weeks imprisonment for wasting police time and hopefully that will send a message."
  
  Abberline looks thoughtful.
  
  "I think it is time we approached this killer from another direction my friend. We will make a list of likely suspects and track each of them. If one of them is the Ripper there will be clues and signs, I imagine it's quite hard to be entirely normal in day to day life if you spend your nights cutting up women and taking their organs and whatnots. Together we'll come up with a list of suspects, you and I, and go after each and every one of them until we find our man. The Ripper's clever, he's ruthless and he's effective but we will catch him."
  
  You are about to begin the final and hardest part: the search for the one correct Ripper suspect out of many. With perception and persistence you WILL find him.
  
  Again you might want to save the game or take a short break at this point.
  
  > know what to look for, now you have to find him
  After a week of working together you and Inspector Abberline manage to come up with a list of five possible Ripper suspects: James Kelly, Joseph Barnett, George Hutchinson, Alois Szemeredy and Dr Francis Tumblety.
  
  James Kelly is of course the man you unsuccessfully tried to track down after he escaped prison earlier this year after being incarcerated for killing his wife by stabbing her through the throat with a knife. Since escaping detectives in Liverpool he vanished are unknown though rumors put his current whereabouts in anywhere from London to France.
  
  Then there is Joseph Barnett, Mary Kelly's boyfriend. Abberline has actually put together a rather strong case on him: generally his apearrence tallies with various descriptions of the killer. Mary Kelly's room was locked from the inside, either the killer reached through the broken window next to the door to lock the door from the inside and took the key with him (a perfectly possible scenario) or Barnett used his own key to lock the door. Finally there were ginger beer bottles in Mary Kelly's room, in letters most likely to have been written by the Ripper he mentions keeping blood in ginger beer bottles.
  
  George Hutchinson, one of the witnesses who saw a suspicious man with Mary Kelly came to Abberline's attention as his description of the man with her seemed a little too detailed and it seems strange that he followed the pair of them around for some time. Abberline suspects if Hutchinson was the real killer then this was a ruse to throw you off the scent.
  
  Alois Szemeredy is an interesting man you learn about in police records. Twelve years ago in Buenos Aires, Argentina a prostitute called Carolina Metz had her throat cut by an unknown man. Szemeredy, a notorious thief and certified lunatic, was arrested on suspicion of murder but eventually acquitted after a long and closely-fought trial. Afterwar