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Jack the Rippers motivation for killing his victims

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  One of the most widely accepted theories about Jack the Ripper is that he killed in the nature that he did because he was a surgeon or interested in anatomy, anxious to explore the organs of the people that he killed. But also that the reason that he chose prostitutes was because he lusted after them. "The name 'Jack the Ripper' has become the most infamous in the annals of murder." (Crime Museum 1). The muders were in "Noisome courts and alleys, hansom cabs and gaslights, swirling fog, prostitutes decked out in the tawdriest of finery, the shrill cry of newsboys - and silent, cruel death personified in the cape-shrouded figure of a faceless prowler of the night, armed with a long knife and carrying a black Gladstone bag." (Bardsley 1). "There was a general Panic, a great many excitable people declaring that the evil one was revisiting the earth" (Cornwell 1). These are just some of the feelings of England at the time. However, the theory(s) is backed up by the evidence that some of the crimes had been in a sexual nature, their bodies were viciously mutilated, and some of the women that he killed were found to have several missing internal organs. These and other forms of evidence have led many to believe that Jack the Ripper killed his victims because he was was a surgeon and the reason that he had killed only prostitutes is that he had lusted after them...