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In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
On September 8, 1888, the body of Annie Chapman, the second confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper, was discovered in a London courtyard. Her brutal murder intensified fear and fascination in the Whitechapel district.
Annie Chapman’s mutilated body was found at 29 Hanbury Street early in the morning, shocking Victorian London with the savagery of the crime. The police arrived to find her throat slashed and abdominal wounds inflicted with chilling precision. Chapman, a woman in her late 40s, had been living in poverty near the East End of London. Her murder followed the first Whitechapel killing and deepened public panic over the unidentified killer’s motives. Intense media coverage and sensational headlines fueled rumors and leads, but no suspect was ever conclusively identified. The case remains one of history’s most infamous unsolved mysteries, representing the dark underbelly of 19th-century urban life.
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