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[[File:ACS Jack the Ripper wandering Whitechapel - Concept Art.jpg|thumb|250px|Jack the Ripper prowling the streets of Whitechapel]]
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The '''Whitechapel murders''', also referred to as the '''Autumn of Terror''' and the '''Terror of Jack the Ripper''', were a series of unsolvable murders in the [[Whitechapel]] district of [[Victorian era]] [[London]] in 1888, committed on [[Assassins]] of the [[British Assassins|British Brotherhood]] disguised as [[Courtesans|prostitutes]] by the serial killer [[Jack the Ripper]].
|prev=[[Assassination of Alexander II of Russia]]
|next=[[Tunguska explosion]]
|conc=[[Borki train disaster]]
|image=ACS Jack the Ripper wandering Whitechapel - Concept Art.jpg
|timeframe=[[Industrial Revolution]] {{c|[[Victorian era]]}}
|date=August – November 1888
|place=[[Whitechapel]], [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]
|outcome=*Presumed deaths of [[Mary Ann Nichols]], [[Annie Chapman]], [[Elizabeth Stride]], and [[Catherine Eddowes]]
*Deaths of 4 undercover [[British Brotherhood of Assassins|British Assassins]]
*Death of [[Mary Jane Kelly]]
*Death of [[Jack the Ripper]]
|key=*[[Metropolitan Police Service]]
*[[Assassins]]
**[[British Brotherhood of Assassins|British Brotherhood]]
*[[Rooks]]
|participants=*[[Frederick Abberline]]
*[[Jack the Ripper]]
*[[Jacob Frye]]
*[[Evie Frye]]
}}
The '''Whitechapel murders''' were committed in [[London]]'s poverty-stricken [[Whitechapel]] district in the {{Wiki|East End of London|East End}} between August and November 1888.<ref name="Wiki">{{WP|Whitechapel murders}}</ref> Because of when the killings began, [[civilian]]s also referred to them as happening in the '''Autumn of Terror'''.<ref name="Prologue">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Prologue (Syndicate)|Prologue]]</ref>
 
To the public eye, all five victims—[[Mary Ann Nichols]], [[Annie Chapman]], [[Elizabeth Stride]], [[Catherine Eddowes]], and [[Mary Jane Kelly]]—were local [[Courtesan|prostitutes]] whom the serial killer [[Jack the Ripper]] murdered. In truth, all but Kelly were undercover [[British Brotherhood of Assassins|British Assassins]] tasked by the [[Master Assassin]] [[Jacob Frye]] with killing Jack, who was a fellow [[Assassins|Assassin]] that had adopted a twisted version of [[the Creed]] and turned rogue after years of unresolved and improperly-treated childhood trauma.
 
Despite [[police]] from the [[Metropolitan Police Service|Metropolitan]] and {{Wiki|City of London Police|City of London}} forces as well as the volunteer {{Wiki|Whitechapel Vigilance Committee}} conducting enquiries and searching for Jack, their efforts proved fruitless and he evaded capture. Only Inspector [[Frederick Abberline]] recognized Jack's aptitude for [[Assassination|targeted killings]] and ability to [[Blending|avoid detection]] as skills he had seen decades before when Jacob and [[Evie Frye]] helped [[Liberation of London|break]] the [[British Rite of the Templar Order|British Templars]]' centuries-old stranglehold over the city. When Evie was summoned home from [[India]], Abberline enlisted her expertise in capturing Jack. Ultimately, Evie confronted and killed the rogue Assassin beneath [[Lambeth Asylum]] and requested that Abberline keep Jack's identity and former allegiance a secret.
 
In the immediate years after, the murders highlighted the East End's destitute nature that municipal legislation ordered be improved.<ref name="Wiki"/> Because Jack's name was never officially recorded, he remained an anonymous figure whose mystery and brutal acts continued to occupy public imagination for centuries and into the [[Modern times|present]].


==History==
==History==
After the defeat of [[Grand Master]] of the [[British Rite of the Templar Order |British Rite]] of the [[Templars|Templar Order]] [[Crawford Starrick]] in 1868, London enjoyed two decades of peace and stability. Sometime after [[Jacob Frye]] and his [[Apprentices|apprentice]] Jack's return from training with the [[Indian Assassins]], the latter usurped control of the [[Rooks]] from his mentor in pursuit of his own idealized version of [[the Creed]] and extremist view of the Assassins' mission. The Whitechapel murders of 1888 were a direct result of Jacob opposing his renegade apprentice. In an attempt to bring an end to Jack's plans, Jacob sent the Assassins [[Mary Ann Nichols]], [[Annie Chapman]], [[Elizabeth Stride]], [[Catherine Eddowes]], and [[Mary Jane Kelly]] to stop his former student, all of which were brutally killed at the hands of Jack, who thereafter began to go by the pseudonym "Jack the Ripper". These murders marked the widespread moral decay of the Whitechapel district and the dispersion of terror throughout the city of London.
===Initial murders===
After the [[Frye family|Frye twins]] defeated the British Templar [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Master]] [[Crawford Starrick]]'s schemes to control the [[British Empire]] in 1868,<ref name="A Night to Remember">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[A Night to Remember]]</ref> London enjoyed 20 years of peace and stability.<ref name="Prologue"/> Sometime after Jacob and his orphaned<ref name="The Mother of All Crimes">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[The Mother of All Crimes]]</ref> [[Assassin apprentice|apprentice]] Jack returned from training with the [[Indian Brotherhood of Assassins|Indian Assassins]],<ref name="The Unfortunates">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[The Unfortunates]]</ref> Jack usurped control of the [[Rooks]] in pursuit of his own idealized version of the Creed and extremist view of the Assassins' [[Assassin-Templar War|mission]]. The Whitechapel murders of 1888 were a direct result of Jacob opposing his renegade apprentice.<ref name="Rooks DB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Database: Jack's Gang: The Rooks]]</ref>
 
In an attempt to bring an end to Jack's plans, Jacob sent Assassins stop his former student as undercover prostitutes<ref name="Autumn of Terror">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Autumn of Terror]]</ref> by adopting the aliases of Mary Ann Nichols,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Database: Mary Ann Nichols]]</ref> Annie Chapman,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Database: Annie Chapman]]</ref> Elizabeth Stride,<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Database: Elizabeth Stride]]</ref> and Catherine Eddowes.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Database: Catherine Eddowes]]</ref> However, Jack brutally killed them all—first slashing the throat of "[[Mary Ann Nichols (Assassin)|Nichols]]", disemboweling "[[Annie Chapman (Assassin)|Chapman]]", and then repeating these acts with "[[Catherine Eddowes (Assassin)|Eddowes]]" and "[[Elizabeth Stride (Assassin)|Stride]]", respectively<ref name="Wiki"/>—and thereafter began going by the pseudonym "Jack the Ripper."<ref name="Autumn of Terror"/><ref name="The Mother of All Crimes"/> To London, these murders marked the extent of Whitechapel's widespread moral decay while also starting the dispersion of terror in the city.<ref name="Prologue"/><ref name="Autumn of Terror"/>
 
===Assassin intervention===
[[File:ACS Prologue 3.png|thumb|250px|left|Jacob and Nellie discovering one of Jack's crime scenes]]
Media coverage of the murders eventually increased, with Jack capitalizing on it by kidnapping the publisher [[Arthur Weaversbrook]]'s son and coercing Arthur into mass-publishing copies of his {{Wiki|Dear Boss letter|"Dear Boss" letter}} to further spread his name and terror.<ref name="Letters of Intent">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Letters of Intent]]</ref> Jacob picked up on Jack's intentions and confronted Weaversbrook on the night that "Eddowes" and "Stride" were murdered, demanding that Weaversbrook stop publicizing the Ripper's letters and turning him into a legend.<ref name="Prologue"/> Jack, having anticipated Jacob's meeting, chased his former [[mentor]] to his lodgings, where Jacob was overpowered,<ref name="Prologue" /> kidnapped, and locked up beneath [[Lambeth Asylum]].<ref name="Live and Die by the Creed">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed]]</ref>
 
Before his abduction, Jacob had requested that his sister Evie return to London from India to help apprehend Jack. Evie, with the assistance of the Metropolitan Police Inspector Frederick Abberline, eventually brought about the end of the Ripper murders.<ref name="Autumn of Terror"/> She first killed Jack's right-hand woman and intelligence operative [[Olwyn Owers]],<ref name="The Lady Talks">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[The Lady Talks]]</ref> and then [[John Billingsworth]], the chief warder of decommissioned [[ship]]s in [[Deptford]] repurposed as [[prison hulk]]s for Jack's hostages.<ref name="Prisoners">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Prisoners]]</ref>
 
With Evie having foiled his plans, Jack responded by eliminating any witnesses and evidence at Deptford that could link him to the Assassins.<ref name="Loose Ends">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Loose Ends]]</ref> He then lured Evie into a reunion with her brother at Lambeth, where he killed [[Doctor]] [[Archer (doctor)|Archer]], nurse [[Whitney]], and Director [[Bradford]], all staff members who had abused him and had memory of his childhood internment there.<ref name="Family Reunion">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' – [[Family Reunion]]</ref>
 
[[File:ACS Live by the Creed, Die by the Creed 6.png|thumb|250px|Evie fighting Jack at Lambeth Asylum]]
Aware that she was being led into a trap, Evie went to the asylum and fought through many inmates that Jack had released to delay her. Beneath the asylum, she fought Jack and more inmates under his command, defeating them all in combat and ending the Whitechapel murders by killing the Assassin deserter.<ref name="Live and Die by the Creed"/>
 
==Aftermath==
Following Jack's death, Evie rescued Jacob from Lambeth just as Abberline arrived on the scene with journalists not far behind. Evie informed him of Jack's Assassin allegiance and asked that he help her in keeping it a secret. Though discomforted at the idea, he called off the journalists, and Jack's identity was forever rendered a mystery to the public.<ref name="Live and Die by the Creed"/>


Media coverage of the Whitechapel murders would eventually increase, with Jack capitalizing on that fact by kidnapping the son of publisher [[Arthur Weaversbrook]] and coercing the latter into publishing his letters for him, to further spread his name and terror throughout London. Jacob picked up on Jack's intentions and confronted Weaversbrook on the night Catherine Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride were murdered, demanding that the publisher stop publicizing the Ripper's letters and turning him into a legend. Jack had anticipated this meeting and left a message for Jacob asking him, "How many more Assassins must die before you see the truth?" Jack then chased his former mentor to his lodgings, where the [[Master Assassin]] was overpowered, kidnapped, and locked up beneath [[Lambeth Asylum]].
Although Jack's murders were ultimately brought to an end before they could escalate further, his legacy of terror remained a dark chapter in both London's and the Brotherhood's history. In 2016, when the former [[Templars|Templar]] [[Sebastian Monroe]] observed that Jack, as a former Assassin, held the dubious honor of being history's most infamous serial killer, the Assassin [[Griffin (Assassin)|Griffin]] angrily stated that Jack had never been a true Assassin and that it was the Brotherhood that had stopped him.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods]]'' – Chapter 23</ref>


Before he was kidnapped, Jacob had requested the return of his sister, [[Evie Frye]], to London from [[India]]. Evie, with the assistance of Inspector [[Frederick Abberline]] of the [[Metropolitan Police Service]], eventually brought about the end of the Ripper murders and Jack's acts. She first killed Jack's right hand woman [[Olwyn Owers]] and then the chief warder of his personal prison at Deptford. In response, Jack eliminated any witnesses and evidence linking him to the Assassins at Debtford, his plans there having been foiled by the Frye twin. He then lured Evie to Lambeth Asylum for a family reunion with her brother, where he killed all staff members who potentially had memory of his childhood internment at the asylum.
==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180">
ACS DB  Mary Ann Nichols.jpg|The first victim, "Mary Ann Nichols"
ACS DB Annie Chapman.jpg|The second victim, "Annie Chapman"
ACS DB  Elizabeth Stride.jpg|The third victim, "Elizabeth Stride"
ACS DB Catherine Eddowes.jpg|The fourth victim, "Catherine Eddowes"
ACS DB Mary Jane Kelly.jpg|The last victim, Mary Jane Kelly
</gallery>


Aware that she was being lured to Lambeth Asylum, Evie went to the madhouse and fought through a slew of inmates that had been released by Jack before her arrival. Beneath the asylum, she faced off with Jack and more inmates under his command, defeating them all in combat and bringing about the end of the Whitechapel murders with the death of the Assassin deserter. Following Jack's death, Abberline arrived to the site, with journalists not far behind. Evie informed him of Jack's Assassin allegiance and asked that he help her in keeping it a secret. As such, the journalists were called off and Jack's identity was forever rendered a mystery to the public.
==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]] – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods]]'' {{Imo}}
*''[[Echoes of History]] – Behind the Legends'' {{Mo}}


==Reference==
==References==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' - ''[[Jack the Ripper (DLC)|Jack the Ripper]]''
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The Whitechapel murders were committed in London's poverty-stricken Whitechapel district in the East End between August and November 1888.[1] Because of when the killings began, civilians also referred to them as happening in the Autumn of Terror.[2]

To the public eye, all five victims—Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly—were local prostitutes whom the serial killer Jack the Ripper murdered. In truth, all but Kelly were undercover British Assassins tasked by the Master Assassin Jacob Frye with killing Jack, who was a fellow Assassin that had adopted a twisted version of the Creed and turned rogue after years of unresolved and improperly-treated childhood trauma.

Despite police from the Metropolitan and City of London forces as well as the volunteer Whitechapel Vigilance Committee conducting enquiries and searching for Jack, their efforts proved fruitless and he evaded capture. Only Inspector Frederick Abberline recognized Jack's aptitude for targeted killings and ability to avoid detection as skills he had seen decades before when Jacob and Evie Frye helped break the British Templars' centuries-old stranglehold over the city. When Evie was summoned home from India, Abberline enlisted her expertise in capturing Jack. Ultimately, Evie confronted and killed the rogue Assassin beneath Lambeth Asylum and requested that Abberline keep Jack's identity and former allegiance a secret.

In the immediate years after, the murders highlighted the East End's destitute nature that municipal legislation ordered be improved.[1] Because Jack's name was never officially recorded, he remained an anonymous figure whose mystery and brutal acts continued to occupy public imagination for centuries and into the present.

History[edit | edit source]

Initial murders[edit | edit source]

After the Frye twins defeated the British Templar Grand Master Crawford Starrick's schemes to control the British Empire in 1868,[3] London enjoyed 20 years of peace and stability.[2] Sometime after Jacob and his orphaned[4] apprentice Jack returned from training with the Indian Assassins,[5] Jack usurped control of the Rooks in pursuit of his own idealized version of the Creed and extremist view of the Assassins' mission. The Whitechapel murders of 1888 were a direct result of Jacob opposing his renegade apprentice.[6]

In an attempt to bring an end to Jack's plans, Jacob sent Assassins stop his former student as undercover prostitutes[7] by adopting the aliases of Mary Ann Nichols,[8] Annie Chapman,[9] Elizabeth Stride,[10] and Catherine Eddowes.[11] However, Jack brutally killed them all—first slashing the throat of "Nichols", disemboweling "Chapman", and then repeating these acts with "Eddowes" and "Stride", respectively[1]—and thereafter began going by the pseudonym "Jack the Ripper."[7][4] To London, these murders marked the extent of Whitechapel's widespread moral decay while also starting the dispersion of terror in the city.[2][7]

Assassin intervention[edit | edit source]

Jacob and Nellie discovering one of Jack's crime scenes

Media coverage of the murders eventually increased, with Jack capitalizing on it by kidnapping the publisher Arthur Weaversbrook's son and coercing Arthur into mass-publishing copies of his "Dear Boss" letter to further spread his name and terror.[12] Jacob picked up on Jack's intentions and confronted Weaversbrook on the night that "Eddowes" and "Stride" were murdered, demanding that Weaversbrook stop publicizing the Ripper's letters and turning him into a legend.[2] Jack, having anticipated Jacob's meeting, chased his former mentor to his lodgings, where Jacob was overpowered,[2] kidnapped, and locked up beneath Lambeth Asylum.[13]

Before his abduction, Jacob had requested that his sister Evie return to London from India to help apprehend Jack. Evie, with the assistance of the Metropolitan Police Inspector Frederick Abberline, eventually brought about the end of the Ripper murders.[7] She first killed Jack's right-hand woman and intelligence operative Olwyn Owers,[14] and then John Billingsworth, the chief warder of decommissioned ships in Deptford repurposed as prison hulks for Jack's hostages.[15]

With Evie having foiled his plans, Jack responded by eliminating any witnesses and evidence at Deptford that could link him to the Assassins.[16] He then lured Evie into a reunion with her brother at Lambeth, where he killed Doctor Archer, nurse Whitney, and Director Bradford, all staff members who had abused him and had memory of his childhood internment there.[17]

Evie fighting Jack at Lambeth Asylum

Aware that she was being led into a trap, Evie went to the asylum and fought through many inmates that Jack had released to delay her. Beneath the asylum, she fought Jack and more inmates under his command, defeating them all in combat and ending the Whitechapel murders by killing the Assassin deserter.[13]

Aftermath[edit | edit source]

Following Jack's death, Evie rescued Jacob from Lambeth just as Abberline arrived on the scene with journalists not far behind. Evie informed him of Jack's Assassin allegiance and asked that he help her in keeping it a secret. Though discomforted at the idea, he called off the journalists, and Jack's identity was forever rendered a mystery to the public.[13]

Although Jack's murders were ultimately brought to an end before they could escalate further, his legacy of terror remained a dark chapter in both London's and the Brotherhood's history. In 2016, when the former Templar Sebastian Monroe observed that Jack, as a former Assassin, held the dubious honor of being history's most infamous serial killer, the Assassin Griffin angrily stated that Jack had never been a true Assassin and that it was the Brotherhood that had stopped him.[18]

Gallery[edit | edit source]

Appearances[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]