Jack the Stripper
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Jack the Stripper was the nickname given to an unknown serial killer responsible for what came to be known as the London "Nude" Murders, from 1964-1965.
His victimology was similar to that of his legendary namesake. He murdered six prostitutes, whose nude bodies were discovered in various locations around London or dumped in the River Thames. His apparent modus operandi was to suffocate them with his penis as they fellated him.
Like the Jack the Ripper killings, the Stripper's reign of terror seemed to cease on its own, and there were few solid clues for police to investigate. Though his identity remains unknown, crime writer Donald Rumbelow notes that the killer could have been a young man who committed suicide in South London at the time the murders ended. Though there was never any hard evidence to link him to the crimes (jewelry, etc.), his family found his suicide inexplicable, and his suicide note cryptically said only that he was "unable to take the strain any longer."
A recent book also named British light heavyweight boxing champion Freddie Mills as the killer, although this has been unsubstantiated.
The Alfred Hitchcock movie Frenzy is loosely based on the case. [1] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068611/).
External link
- Article on Jack the Stripper at Murder in the UK (http://www.murderuk.com/serialkillers/jackthestripper.htm)
- Another article on Jack citing evidence for the modus operandi (http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/J/JACK_the_STRIPPER.htm)hu:Jack the Stripper