" From Hell ", Jack The Ripper, The Story Behind the Movie

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><font face="arial, helvetica" size=6 color=000000><b>"FROM HELL"</p> <p><font size=2>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</font></b></p> <center><font size=1><b>CAUTION:</b> THIS STORY, AND MANY OF ITS<br> LINKS, CONTAIN <b>EXTREMELY</b> GRAPHIC CONTENT</font><br>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="from_hell_ch2.htm">2. TARGETED MURDERS?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="from_hell_ch3.htm">3. WHITECHAPEL: SCENE OF DESPAIR</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="from_hell_ch4.htm">4. THE TERROR BEGINS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="from_hell_ch5.htm">5. A HORRIBLE DEATH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="from_hell_ch6.htm">6. DARK ANNIE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="from_hell_ch7.htm">7. SIR WILLIAM GULL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0 height="171"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="from_hell_ch8.htm"><b>8. THE ALLEGED BLACKMAIL</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="from_hell_ch9.htm"><b>9. LIZ STRIDE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="from_hell_ch10.htm"><b>10. KATE EDDOWES</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="19"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="from_hell_ch11.htm">11. "<b><font size=4>JACK THE RIPPER</font></b></a>"</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="19"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="from_hell_ch12.htm">12. MARY KELLY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="from_hell_ch13.htm">13. INSPECTOR FRED ABBERLINE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="from_hell_ch14.htm">14. REACTION TO THE CRIMES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">From Hell<br> Sir I send you half the kidne I took<br> from one woman...I may send you<br> the bloody knif that took it out...<br><br> Catch me when you can...</i></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jeugdwerknet.be/spelensite/doc/JackTheRipper/lusk_big.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Letter</b></a> with gruesome enclosure,<br> from Jack the Ripper<br> 1888<br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">During the late summer and fall of 1888, a killer <a href="http://www.evanevans.co.uk/images/jacktheripper.jpg" target="_blank"><b>stalked</b></a> prostitutes in London’s East End. Foggy, murderous nights in <a href="http://www.mds.qmw.ac.uk/psychiatry/images/whitechapel.gif" target="_blank"><b>Whitechapel</b></a> led to foggy theories about the murderer’s real identity. London’s Metropolitan Police and Britain’s Scotland Yard never solved the crimes.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="from_hell_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p><br>  </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>