<P> A series of murders that took place in the East End of London from August to November 1888 was blamed on an unidentified assailant who acquired the nickname Jack the Ripper . Since that time, the identity of the killer or killers has been hotly debated, and over one hundred Jack the Ripper suspects have been named . Though many theories have been advanced, experts find none widely persuasive, and some can hardly be taken seriously at all . Due to the time frame in which the murders took place, and the time that has passed since then, everyone alive at the time is now dead, and despite the killer's identity continuing to be a hot topic of discussion, the killer will likely never be identified . </P> <P> Metropolitan Police Service files show that their investigation into the serial killings encompassed eleven separate murders between 1888 and 1891, known in the police docket as the "Whitechapel murders". Five of these--the murders of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly--are generally agreed to be the work of a single killer, known as "Jack the Ripper". They occurred between August and November 1888 within a few streets of each other, and are collectively called the "canonical five". The six other murders--those of Emma Elizabeth Smith, Martha Tabram, Rose Mylett, Alice McKenzie, Frances Coles, and an unidentified woman--have been linked with Jack the Ripper to varying degrees . </P>

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