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Mid-Month Murderer - Jack The Ripper Catherine Eddowes

After killing Elizabeth on Berner Street but not being able to finish what he started Jack must have been feeling unfulfilled, he would probably have had a lot of adrenaline running through his body, but he would not have been able to run from the scene as anyone running from a murder would have been noticed. He needed to kill, he headed off and found Catherine Eddowes near Mitre Square.  Catherine Eddowes Catherine was born in Wolverhampton on 14th April 1842, her father was a tin plate varnisher called George Eddowes, her mother died in 1855 when she was 13 years old. Sometime between 1861 and 1863, Catherine moved in with a man called Thomas Conway, he had been in the 18th Irish Regiment and even though he wasn't old, he was receiving a pension from them.  Thomas and Catherine had three children even though they never married. They moved to the Birmingham and Midlands area but sometime between 1880 and 1881 they separated and Catherine took custody of one of their d

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