We have rarely ventured to peer inside it or attempted to remove the thick wrapping that has kept us from knowing these women or their true histories. Jack the Ripper killed prostitutes, or so it has always been believed, but there is no hard evidence to suggest that three of his five victims were prostitutes at all. As soon as each body was discovered, in a dark yard or street, the police assumed that the woman was a prostitute killed by a maniac who had lured her to the location for sex.
