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Noun: Jack the Ripper
  1. Unidentified serial killer who murdered and mutilated prostitutes in London's East End in 1888
    "The Jack the Ripper case remains one of history's most infamous unsolved mysteries"

Type of: liquidator, manslayer [archaic], murderer

Encyclopedia: Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend