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Census shows Jack the Ripper victims led "respectable" lives

Some of Jack the Ripper’s most notorious victims appear to be living respectable domestic lives in census records that went online today.

At least five women, all working as prostitutes, were murdered by a Victorian serial killer whose identity has been a matter of speculation for more than a century.

But some only turned to prostitution later in life after the break up of their marriages. Records from the 1881 census, which go online today, show several living with husbands and children.

Read entire article at Times (UK)