Jacques the Scratcher – Jack the Ripper
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Jacques_the_Scratcher_(Rank_6)#ixzz7bCLlB8Z2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper_suspects
Jacques the Scratcher, real name Xavier Xandros, is one of Meowiarty’s allies. He stalks the citizens of Marleybone in the Knight’s Court and threatens your wizard not once, but twice.
“You, again? Can’t believe you found me. Doesn’t matter, you’ll soon be my next victim!”
Jacques the Scratcher
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in the impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel in the East End of London in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporary journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron.
Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London. Their throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge. Rumors that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and numerous letters were received by media outlets and Scotland Yard from individuals purporting to be the murderer. The name “Jack the Ripper” originated in a letter written by an individual claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media. The letter is widely believed to have been a hoax and may have been written by journalists in an attempt to heighten interest in the story and increase their newspapers’ circulation. The “From Hell” letter received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee came with half of a preserved human kidney, purportedly taken from one of the victims. The public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer known as “Jack the Ripper”, mainly because of both the extraordinarily brutal nature of the murders and media coverage of the crimes.
The concentration of the killings around weekends and public holidays and within a short distance of each other has indicated to many that the Ripper was in regular employment and lived locally. Others have opined that the killer was an educated upper-class man, possibly a doctor or an aristocrat who ventured into Whitechapel from a more well-to-do area. There are many, varied theories about the actual identity and profession of Jack the Ripper, but authorities are not agreed upon any of them, and the number of named suspects reaches over one hundred. Despite continued interest in the case, the Ripper’s identity remains unknown.
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