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Portrait of Annie Chapman
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Victim

Annie Chapman

Born
1840
Died
8 September 1888, aged about 48
Record
Wikidata Q263123 · Wikipedia

Victim in The Whitechapel Murders

Born Eliza Ann Smith; usually given as born 25 September 1840, though some records suggest 1841. Found at 29 Hanbury Street.

1888 · Whitechapel and Spitalfields, London · Unsolved

Five women killed in ten weeks in London's East End in 1888, a name invented in a letter, and a killer the police never identified. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. Annie Chapman is found in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields.