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The family moved to Wales when she was a child, and when she was sixteen she met and married a collier named Davis or Davies. Three years later, her husband was killed in a mine explosion, and Mary moved to Cardiff to live with a female cousin who introduced her to prostitution. In fact, we know virtually nothing about her life prior to her arrival in the East End of London, and what we do know is based on what she chose to reveal about her past to those she knew, and the veracity of what she did reveal is difficult to ascertain. Indeed, we don't even know for certain that her name actually was Mary Kelly. Edwards enlisted forensic geneticist Dr. Jari Louhelainen of Liverpool John Moores University in 2011 to study the shawl using a level of analysis that was only possible in the last decade. Louhelainen identified the dark splotches on the shawl as stains “consistent with arterial blood spatter caused by slashing.” He also discovered evidence of split body parts, consistent with a kidney removal, as well as the presence of seminal fluid.
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The body was removed to the nearest mortuary - which still stands, albeit as a ruin, in the nearby churchyard of St George-in-the-East, and here she was identified as Elizabeth Stride. THE FUNERAL OF ELIZABETH STRIDEToday, people come from all over the world to lay flowers, coins and other trinkets on and around the victims memorials and to spend a few quiet moments remembering Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly, five women whose horrific deaths force us to confront the tragedy and hardship of their lives. Instead, the theory goes that he was Nathan Kaminsky, a poor Whitechapel bootmaker described as violently antisocial, and the police had simply confused his name with Kosminski. John would send her periodic allowances until his death in 1886, whereupon Annie supported herself by selling her own crochet work, as well as matches and flowers, supplementing her earnings with casual prostitution. RESIDING IN DORSET STREET John Evans then escorted her from the premises, and watched her head off along Dorset Street, observing later that she appeared to be slightly tipsy as opposed to drunk. HER BODY FOUND IN HANBURY STREET
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When I first heard about this book I must admit I was sceptical. There has been so many books claiming to state who the killer really was and of course are often based on very little real evidence at all. Therefore I really didn't expect to finish this book and agree that the author has really identified the killer. They are buried in four East London cemeteries, in this article, we visit their final resting places, whilst, at the same time, revealing something about the tragedy of their live and the horror of their deaths. THE CITY OF LONDON CEMTERY By September, 1888, she was living, on and off, at Crossingham's lodging house, on Dorset Street, in Spitalfields. area where the murders had happened. What started as an interest became, by 2007, a mission to prove theKelly managed to earn sixpence that day, and Catherine, having taken two pence for herself, handed him fourpence, telling him to use it to get a bed at Cooney's that night. She told him that she would get a bed in the Casual Ward of the Shoe Lane Workhouse. Mary was very drunk, and she boasted to Emily that she had made her lodging money three times over, but had spent it.
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