et examination. Not only was her throat slashed, but her abdominal area
             and sexual organs had been brutally sliced and mutilated, which explained the large
             of blood beneath the body. Furthermore, there were many bruises on the sides of her face
             which indicated that she had been knocked unconscious before being mutilated. The
             murder was believed to have been committed with a stout- handled blade of six to eight
             Mary Anne Nichols was the first victim of Jack the Ripper who was deliberately
             mutilated. She was known as "Polly" by her friends, and was a drunken street prostitute
             in her early forties. She married at the age of nineteen to a printer named William
             They had five children together. The two eventually separated shortly after Mary Anne
             developed a drinking problem. William took custody of all of their children, except for
             oldest, Edward, and paid Mary a weekly allowance of $5.25 until he learned of her
             lifestyle as a street prostitute. Mary Anne was last seen by a friend named Ellen Holland
             2:30 a.m. on the corner of Osborn Street and Whitechapel High Street. It was noted that
             she was drunk and staggering at the time. After a weekend of investigation, the
             Metropolitan Police Force was unable to come up with much useful
             information regarding the murder of Mary Anne Nichols.
             On Sept. 8, 1888, a little before 6:00A.M., Annie Chapman was found laying dead
             at the foot of steps at the back of a lodging house by a lodger named John Davis. The
             sight of the dead body sent Davis screaming down his street, alarming the whole
             neighborhood. Inspector Joseph Luniss Chandler of the Commercial Street station
             with his men to seal off the scene and the building from the large crowd that had already
             gathered before their arrival. Dr. Wynne Baxter-Phillips was summoned to the scene to
             examine the body. His brief examination revealed that the woman's throat was...