WEBVTT - S03 Episode 12: The Square (Pt.2 of 2) 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.520 Please be advised the following episode contains scenes of an 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.040 extremely graphic nature that may be distressing for some listeners. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:23.439 You're listening to Unexplained with Me Richard McClane Smith, Season three, 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:36.040 episode twelve, The Square, Part two. Although the disturbing Dear 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.920 Boss letter, as it will come to be known, was 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.360 received at the Central News Agency on September twenty seventh, 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.200 it is a further two days before it is passed 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.360 on to the police, who swiftly dismiss it as a hoax. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.120 Later that evening, back in the Whitechapel district of East London, 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.480 p C. Lewis Robinson is patrolling Aldgate High Street when 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.480 he sees a crowd of people gathered around something on 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.960 the ground. Drawing near, he realizes it is a woman 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:11.120 sprawled out on the pavement drunk. PC Robinson pulls her 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.959 up and implores her to stand, but as soon as 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.720 he lets her go, she slumps against the wall and 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:21.280 slides down slowly back to the ground. Half an hour later, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.759 with the help of a colleague, Robinson takes the woman 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.880 to Bishopsgate Police station and places her in a cell 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:32.360 for the evening. When they ask her name, she tells 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:37.160 them only it is nothing. Minutes later, she is fast asleep. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.959 It has just gone midnight when station jailer George Hutt 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:48.480 here's the unknown woman, singing softly from her cell. When 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.520 he checks on her, she asks to be released, but 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.520 Hut insists that she remained there until she is able 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:59.480 to take care of herself. Outside, a storm is brewing 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:12.320 above the streets of Whitechapel shortly before one am, As 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.440 a heavy rain starts to fall, local resident Israel Schwartz 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:21.840 turns into Berner Street, just south of Whitechapel Road. Up ahead, 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.440 he notices a couple standing outside the entranceway to Dutfield's Yard, 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:31.280 overlooked by the International working Men's Educational Club next door. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.320 One of the pair is a man roughly five and 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.600 a half feet tall, with dark hair and a small 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:44.000 brown mustache, wearing a black felt hat with a wide brim. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.720 He is standing in front of a woman who he 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.920 tries to pull into the street, but she resists. Enraged, 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.839 he throws her onto the pavement and she lets out 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.520 three short screams. Schwartz, who had seen the whole incident, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:04.520 responds by crossing the road and walking away. Hearing the 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.840 man calling out to someone on the other side of 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.400 the road. Schwartz turns to find a second man is 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.080 now following him. He breaks into a run, making a 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:26.840 sharp exit from the scene. Back at Bishopsgate Police Station Hut, 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.600 the jailer has been instructed to make more room in 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:34.079 the cells. Deciding the unknown woman is now sober enough 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.040 to be released, he agrees to let her go in 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.040 return for her giving him her name. She replies it 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:45.320 is Mary Anne Kelly, though in truth it is Kate Edos. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:51.280 The forty six year old Edos was originally from Wolverhampton 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.400 in the Midlands of England, but had spent the last 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.640 seven years living at Cooney's lodging house in Flower and 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.640 Dean Street, where she later met and fell in love 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:05.200 with a man called John Kelly. Only the previous day, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.760 Edos and Kelly had been forced to pawn a pair 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.760 of Kelly's boots to afford their last meal. I should 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.000 get a damn fine hiding when I get home, says 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.000 Edo's as she leaves the police station and steps into 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:24.000 the night. Good Night. Old cock Hut watches as she 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.320 heads off in the direction of Aldgate High Street, where 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:38.040 she had been found earlier. Minutes later, back on Berna Street, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.920 twenty six year old Lewis Deemschutz, an educated immigrant from 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.920 Russia forced to flee from the recent pogrums, now working 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.920 as a part time jeweler, rides his cart into Burna Street, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.080 with voices of song drifting down from the working Men's 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.680 club above. He turns through the open gates into the 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:02.520 pitch black of Dutfield's yard for his pony to rear up. Unexpectedly, 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.520 something was lying on the ground just in front of 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.680 the cart. Probing at it with his whip, he found 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.719 it to be soft and lumpen, before realizing it was 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:19.800 a woman lying unresponsive and probably drunk, he thought. Jumping 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.000 down from the cart, he lit a match and held 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.520 it into the gloom, having just enough time to confirm 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.760 it was indeed a woman lying there before the wind 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:35.760 blew it out. After unsuccessfully trying to rouse her, Louis 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.080 grabbed a couple of members from the club to give 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.279 him a hand. Stepping back into the yard a moment later, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.000 Lewis is a little surprised to find the woman exactly 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.560 as he had left her. One of the men took 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.159 another match, lighting it before holding it down to the 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:58.880 woman's face and dropping it with a scream. The flame 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:03.320 flickered gently on the ground, illuminating the horrific glistening tear 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.800 across the throat, from which her blood was still oozing 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:12.120 out onto the road. They also saw a black crepe 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.679 bonnet lying in the mud beside her, and a bunch 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.919 of grapes clutched in her hand, before a sudden wind 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:25.040 snuffed out the match and restored the darkness, lighting another 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.119 They checked for any signs of life, but found none, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.200 though the body was still warm, suggesting death had occurred 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:38.719 only minutes before A doctor arriving minutes later, pronounces the 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.080 woman dead at the scene, having suffered two deep cuts 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.120 to her throat, similar to Polly Nichols and Annie Chapman, 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.159 but something of the scene suggest the killer might have 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.640 been disturbed before they had completed what they had started. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:59.000 Policeman arriving soon after, waste little time in corralling all 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.480 members of the nearby working Men's Club into Dutchfield's yard 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.480 and ordering them to stay put until they were satisfied 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.280 they had not been involved. That the members of the 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.800 club were largely Jewish, Socialist or Irish did little to 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:21.280 dampen police suspicions of their possible guilt. Meanwhile, a mustachioed 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:25.440 man late thirties to early forties, wearing a loose fitting 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.640 pepper colored jacket and a peaked gray cloth cap, is 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.200 walking swiftly through the streets of the East End, moving 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.160 west from the vicinity of Berners Street toward Duke Street. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.720 Just after one thirty three, men stepping out at the 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.520 Imperial Club on Duke Street, barely ten minutes walk from 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.920 Bishopsgate Police Station, spot the man with the gray cloth 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:02.560 cap talking to Kate Edo's before they disappear together into 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:08.440 the shadows towards Mita Square. Only fifteen minutes later, p C. 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:13.200 Edward Watkins, walking his usual beat, steps into the darkness 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.720 of Mita Square and shines his light into it, angling 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.200 the beam into the far corner. He is moving it 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.920 slowly from one side to the other when he picks 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:28.480 up the body of Kate Edos. The body was lying 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.880 on its back, the clothes having been thrown up, and 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:36.920 the upper part of a dress being ripped open. Like 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.040 all the other victims, there was little blood on their clothes, 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.200 suggesting she had been bled to death before she was mutilated. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:52.000 Edoes had been disembowed, while her uterus and a kidney 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:58.120 had also been completely removed. Both her eyelids had been 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.559 cut through and the right ear partially amputated. As had 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:07.320 been predicted in the Dear Boss letter. An incision had 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.040 been made in each side of the cheek, which peeled 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:16.599 up the skin and created a triangular flap. It seemed ritualistic. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.440 Some have suggested the triangular cuts were reminiscent of compass 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:29.560 legs or the set square of Freemason symbolism. Curiously, part 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.160 of Edoz's apron, which she wore over her dress, had 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:44.640 been cut off. An hour later, PC Alfred Long is 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.960 walking down Gholston Street, only five minutes from Miter Square, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.200 when he notices a scrap of fabric on the ground 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.679 in front of a doorway. Pointing his torch toward it, 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.800 he realizes it is covered in blood. Moving the torch 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.400 to the door, he discovers some graffiti written in chalk 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.840 that he is convinced had not been there when he 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:10.920 came by thirty minutes ago. It reads, the Jews are 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:15.720 the men that will not be blamed for nothing. Long 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.840 heads immediately to the nearest station to report his find. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.079 The scrap of blood stained material is later identified as 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.400 likely being from the apron that Kate Edo's had been wearing. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:34.280 Two hours later, Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of London's Metropolitan 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.360 Police and prominent freemason, is woken up with news of 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:45.120 two further possible victims of the apparent East London serial killer. Strangely, however, 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.840 rather than head directly to the crime scenes, he heads 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:53.760 instead to the doorway on Ghulston Street. After taking a 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.559 while to analyze the peculiar message, he orders it immediately 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.839 to be scrubbed off. Shortly after, he has led to 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.120 the scene of the Knight's first murder, where five separate 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.959 witnesses tell him the victim had been holding a bunch 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:13.720 of grapes when she was murdered. Later that morning, before 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.920 news of the murders has hit the newsstands, a postcard 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.280 arrives at the offices of the Central News Agency, reading, 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.480 I was not kidding, dear old boss when I gave 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.320 you the tip you'll hear about Saucy Jackie's work to morrow. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:32.080 Double event. 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She 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.200 had moved to England in eighteen sixty six from Sweden 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:17.280 and married John Stride three years later. The pair successfully 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.840 managed coffee shops for a number of years before the 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:24.199 marriage fell apart. By the mid eighteen eighties, she was 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.080 struggling to stay afloat, moving from workhouse to lodging house 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.560 when she can afford it. In eighteen eighty five, she 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.240 begins a relationship with Michael Kidney, who worked on the 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.480 docks in the East End, but three years later it 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:44.160 two is on the rocks, having grown tired of his beatings. 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.240 It was on September twenty fifth, eighteen eighty eight, she 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.800 left their home for good, vowing never to go back. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:58.840 Five days later she was dead. At the inquest, Thomas Bates, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.880 the night watchman of the lodging house where Elizabeth had 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.640 been staying on the night of her murder, explained with 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.040 sadness that even when she could get no work, she 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.480 had done the best with her living and anita and 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:16.600 cleaner woman had never lived. What wasn't mentioned At the inquest, however, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.480 which was presided over by lawyer and also prominent freemason 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.280 Wind Baxter, were the grapes that had been seen in 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:30.400 Stride's hand by five different witnesses. It was an admission 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.320 made all the more intriguing since only two doors down 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.200 from where Stride's body had been found off Burner Street, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:42.800 was a greengrocer's which coincidentally sold grapes. With the possibility 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.760 that the shopkeeper might have sold the grapes to Elizabeth, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.840 or more likely whomever had given them to her, there 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.800 was a good chance he had seen the killer. Strangely, 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.520 for some reason, the police seemed little interested in this 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:04.400 line of inquiry. Two days later, however, an extraordinary story 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.680 as published in the London Evening News. The article owes 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.200 much to the work of two private detectives, who, having 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:16.120 decided to conduct their own investigations into the crimes, took 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.480 the trouble to interview the greengrocer on Berner Street. What 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:32.520 he told them was startling. As it turned out, the shopkeeper, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.200 Matthew Packer, had indeed sold a man and a woman 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.400 a bunch of black grapes at eleven forty five pm 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:44.600 only a short time before the murder. More to the point, 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.440 he was absolutely convinced that the woman in question was 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:53.120 Elizabeth Stride. He described the man as being quite well 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.160 to do in his late thirties to early forties, around 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.680 five foot seven, with a mustache, and wearing dark clothes 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:05.640 and a wide brimmed hat. The police never contacted him 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:10.440 for a statement. The very next day, as if in 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.920 response to the article, Doctor Phillips, the police surgeon, is 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.680 hurriedly recalled to the inquest to make the claim that 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.560 there was no evidence that the deceased had swallowed either 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.960 the skin or seed of a grape, making no mention 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.200 of the five separate individuals who had seen her dead 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.120 body with a bunch of them clenched in her hand. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.280 Elizabeth Stride was buried at the East London Cemetery in 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:41.800 Plistow on Saturday, October sixth. Soon, public anger was growing 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.480 at the apparent ineptitude of the police, seemingly unable to 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.520 stop the murderer, who appears now to be operating in 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:53.200 plain sight. The publishing of the jack the Rippolettas serves 0:16:53.240 --> 0:17:06.119 only to intensify the fear and anxiety. In early September, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.399 the White Chapel Vigilance Committee had been formed by a 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.399 small group of East End business men concerned that the 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:17.040 recent murders were bad for local business. The committee, led 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.639 by George Lusk, would meet at the Crown Pub on 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.560 Mile End Road at nine p m each evening and 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.080 from there begin their patrols of the local streets until 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:30.600 the early hours of the next morning. On October sixteenth, 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.359 George Lusk received a small cardboard box in the mail. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.720 He opened it to find half a human kidney preserved 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:44.800 in wine. A letter accompanying the gruesome gift read from 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:49.240 hell mister Lusk, Sir, I send you half the kidney 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.879 I took from one woman and preserved it for you. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.520 The other piece I fried and ate and it was 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:59.080 very nice. I may send you the bloody knife that 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.840 took it out if you only wait a while longer. 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:08.320 Signed catch me when you can mis de lust. The 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.760 piece of kidney was taken to nearby London Hospital where 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.800 it was examined by surgeon doctor Thomas open Shore. He 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.600 identified it as human and from the left side of 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:22.040 the body, similar to the one that had been removed 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:26.840 from Kate Edoes's body in the weeks that followed, the 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.719 press and police receive a number of letters purportedly written 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.840 by the apparently self styled Jack the Ripper, but few, 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:39.439 if any, are given any credibility. More importantly, with no 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.400 further attacks recorded throughout the rest of October, it appears 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.480 the supposed serial killer haunting the streets of Whitechapel has 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:58.000 gone to ground. On November ninth, at two a m. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:03.200 In the morning, Whitechapels, George Hutchinson is walking past Flower 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.359 and Dean Street when he is approached by Mary Jane Kelly, 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.840 a young woman he knew from the area. The twenty 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.920 five year old Kelly asks Hutchinson if he can lend 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.560 her some money, but he is unable to spare any, 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.480 saying there goodbyes, he watches her approach a man further 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.960 down the street. He is just over five and a 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.520 half feet tall, in his late thirties, with dark hair 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.399 and a slight mustache turned up at the sides, wearing 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.480 a long dark coat and a soft felt hat pulled 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:40.639 down over his eyes. Before long, the two are laughing 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.120 together and a moment later, placing a hand on Mary 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.919 Jane's shoulder. The man is leading her off toward Dorset street. 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.679 Concerned for his friend, who he knew to be an 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.960 occasional sex worker, Hutchinson followed Mary Jane and the mysterious 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.720 man all the way to Miller's Court, where the woman lived. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.959 Hutchinson waits there until three am, when he had satisfied 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.800 she was not in any lethal danger, and makes his 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:13.880 way home. Mary Jane had shared the flat with her 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.200 on off boyfriend Joseph Barnett, but the two had broken 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.479 up recently due to her habit of inviting friends to 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:24.399 stay when they had nowhere else to go. Mary Jane 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.120 was six weeks behind on the rent and had little 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:31.720 choice but to work that night. At ten forty five 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:36.679 the next morning, Thomas Bowyer, assistant to the landlord, arrived 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:41.120 at Mary Jane's apartment to collect her overdue rent. After 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.679 knocking at the door but getting no response, he reached 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.000 through a crack in a window and pushed aside a 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.160 coat that had been placed there as a curtain, finding 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:56.080 behind it a scene of unimaginable horror. What was left 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.000 of Mary Jane Kelly's body lay on the bed at 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.440 the back of the small single room, with her clothes 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:07.440 neatly folded on a chair to the side. The entirety 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.240 of the abdomen and surface of the thighs had been 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.919 carved away, so much as to reveal the thigh bone. 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.240 The muscle and skin that had been removed was piled 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:23.520 up on a side table. Her uterus, kidneys, and one 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:27.879 breast had been placed under her head. The other breast 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.040 was cut off and placed at her feet, as was 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:35.000 her liver. Her intestines and spleen had also been removed 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:39.760 and placed outside the body. Her face had been entirely 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:44.520 mutilated beyond recognition, and her heart that was never found 0:21:45.440 --> 0:22:02.080 removed from her chest. At her quest, a devastated Joseph 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.800 Barnett chastised himself for getting annoyed at her for letting 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:09.560 her friends stay in their apartment, recognizing that she only 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:12.840 did it because she was goodhearted and did not like 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:18.440 to refuse them shelter on cold, bitter nights. Mary Jane 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:22.600 Kelly was buried on nineteenth November in Saint Patrick's Cemetery 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:27.560 in Leytonstone. No family could be found to attend the funeral. 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:33.600 Kelly is widely thought to be the fifth and final 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:37.119 victim of the murders associated with the name Jack the Ripper, 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:40.320 though many believe a number of attacks prior to the 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.920 murder of Polly Nichols, including the murder of Martha Tabrom 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.400 in August eighteen eighty eight, could well have been perpetrated 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:51.879 by the same man, the identity of whom remains to 0:22:51.920 --> 0:23:02.359 this day unknown. Next week's episode extra will conclude season 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:07.000 three of Unexplained. 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