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Historian solve the mystery of Jack the Potroshitelya.

The legendary serial killer Jack the Ripper, who is credited with bloody acts in Victorian London, did not exist in reality.

To such conclusion the British historian, Professor Andrew Cook. The scientist concluded that the famous criminal invented by journalists.

Recall that Jack the Ripper murders attributed 5 to 11 prostitutes in the eastern districts of the British capital. All the crimes were committed in 1888. However, this popular stories questioned researcher Andrew Cook.

He judged the archives of Scotland Yard and came across documents that have not previously worked. It turned out that at least the first two cases of killings of women attributed to Jack the Ripper, I do not really have any relation to it.

And it turned out to fabricate an author who was allegedly the perpetrator. The message came at a time when interest in Jack the Ripper began to subside. The researchers found that in fact the document produced one of the journalists of the newspaper «Star», who was trying to "incontrovertible evidence" to back up the version of the existence of a serial killer, according NTV.

According to the Andrew Cook, Jack the Ripper all the staff came up with the London newspaper «Star». Because of this they were able to greatly increase the circulation of its publications. Between most famous killer of daily output up to 232 thousand copies of the newspaper, but even this amount is not enough to satisfy everyone. As a result, the newspaper received a huge profit.