SinisterCrimes

Victim

Mary Ann Nichols

Born
26 August 1845
Died
31 August 1888, aged about 43
Record
Wikidata Q239251 · Wikipedia

Victim in The Whitechapel Murders

Known as Polly; found in Buck's Row, Whitechapel. The first of the canonical five.

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. Mary Ann Nichols is found dead in Buck's Row, Whitechapel, at about 3:40 a.m.