User blog comment:AltairKenwayAuditore/Assassin's Creed Scenarios/@comment-3202167-20120818012448/@comment-3202167-20120818021036
Now we all know who Ripper is, a unidentified criminal who killed 5 prostitues back in 1880's.
My idea is in no way challenging what he actually was. But it's another take in a way.
First of all, Jack is actually a Assassin hunting Templars down in Victorian England. You see, the Templars want to halt down his progress. So what they do is they kill those 5 prostitues in a serial killer fashion, and frame Jack. That way his job becomes all the more harder.
So things become more..personal. Since he is now slandered and reduced to nothing but a serial killer in the public eye.
Also, historically speaking, Jack was sort of Assassin like. Disappearing right away after his killings and all, and he was never identified.
And, may I add, some people may say we done this before with The Doctor, it could make sense. Prostitues are the easiest of the Assassin allies to hurt, so they constantly attack them.