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2 de ene. de 2024 · Updated March 12, 2024. A local man found Elizabeth Stride's body so soon after the murder that he suspected Jack the Ripper was still hiding there in the pitch-black backyard with him. Wikimedia Commons The body of Elizabeth Stride, Jack the Ripper’s third victim, was found near Berner Street on September 30, 1888.
Yesterday [1 Oct], at the Vestry Hall in Cable-street, St. George-in-the-East, Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, coroner for East Middlesex, opened an inquest on the body of the woman who was found dead, with her throat cut, at one o'clock on Sunday morning, in Berner-street, Commercial-road East. At the outset of the inquiry the deceased was described as ...
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The undertaker, Mr. Hawkes, paid for a small funeral with funds from the church. Her grave, no. 15509, can still be seen today. Elizabeth Stride was the third victim in the series of Jack the Ripper murders in 1888 London. Her murder was part of the infamous "Double Event".
Stride's murder occurred in the midst of the spree of murders attributed to a serial offender known prior to her death as both the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron, and due to a letter forwarded to Scotland Yard the day immediately prior to her death as Jack the Ripper.
September 30th, 1888. September 30 th saw one of the Ripper’s most audacious acts, known as the Double Event. Occurring three weeks after the murder of Annie Chapman, the soggy, miserable night saw the murder of two women within less than an hour: Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
The first of the two murders, that of Elizabeth Stride, had occurred in Dutfield’s Yard, a narrow dark turning of Berner Street. The second, that of Catherine Eddowes had taken place in Mitre Square, on the City of London’s Eastern fringe.
