Jack the Stripper
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Jack the Stripper was the nickname given to an unknown serial killer responsible for what came to be known as the London "Nude" Murders (also known as the Hammersmith Murders or Hammersmith Nudes case), from 1964-1965.
His victimology was similar to that of his legendary namesake, Jack the Ripper. He murdered six prostitutes, whose nude bodies were discovered in various locations around London or dumped in the River Thames.
According to Anthony Summers, two of his victims - Hannah Tailford and Frances Brown, respectively the Stripper's third and seventh victims - were peripherally connected to the 1963 Profumo Affair. Also, some victims were known to engage in an underground party and porn movie scene; several writers have hypothesized that the victims may have known each other, and that the killer may be connected to this scene as well.
Like the Jack the Ripper killings, the Stripper's reign of terror seemed to cease on its own, and there were few solid clues for police to investigate. Though his identity remains unknown, crime writer Donald Rumbelow notes that the killer could have been a young man who committed suicide in South London at the time the murders ended. This main suspect, who was also a favourite suspect of Inspector John Du Rose, a famous London homicide detective who was put in charge of the case, was a security guard on the Heron Trading Estate in Acton, whose rounds included a paint shop where one of the bodies was alleged to have been hidden after the crime. Though there was never any hard evidence to link him to the crimes (jewelry, etc.), his family found his suicide inexplicable, and his suicide note cryptically said only that he was "unable to take the strain any longer."
A recent book also named British light heavyweight boxing champion Freddie Mills as the killer, although this has not been substantiated.
The Alfred Hitchcock movie Frenzy is loosely based on the case. [1].
Black Sabbath's 1970 album Paranoid contains a song entitled Jack the Stripper.