Mary Jane Kelly | |
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 24 November 1888 Penny Illustrated Paper illustration of Kelly | |
| Born | c. 1863 County Limerick, Ireland |
| Died | 9 November 1888 (aged about 25) Miller's Court, Spitalfields, London, England |
| Cause of death | Haemorrhage due to severance of the carotid artery[1] |
| Body discovered | 13 Miller's Court, Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London 51°31′7.16″N 0°4′30.47″W / 51.5186556°N 0.0751306°W |
| Resting place | St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Leytonstone, London 51°33′26″N 0°00′00″E / 51.557194°N -0°E (common grave) |
| Occupation | Prostitute |
| Known for | Victim of serial murder |
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Mary Jane Kelly (c. 1863 – 9 November 1888), also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary and Black Mary, is widely believed by scholars to have been the final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who murdered at least five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888. At the time of Kelly's death, she was approximately 25 years old, working as a prostitute and living in relative poverty.[2]
Unlike the other four canonical Ripper victims—each of whom had been murdered outdoors and whose mutilations could have been committed within minutes—Kelly was murdered within the sparsely furnished single room she rented at 13 Miller's Court, affording her murderer an extensive period of time to eviscerate and mutilate her body. Kelly's body was by far the most extensively mutilated of the canonical victims, with her mutilations taking her murderer approximately two hours to perform.[3]
- ^ "Mary Jane Kelly". casebook.org. 2 April 2004. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ Eddleston, Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia p. 197
- ^ "On This Day in 1888: Jack the Ripper Claims His First Victim in The World's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder Spree". The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2020.