
On This Day: April 3, 1888 – The first of the Whitechapel murders – Related Video, Links
“It was with her killing that the police opened a file which they titled “The Whitechapel Murder”; and, by the end of that year, that file had become the “Whitechapel Murders” file, and would contain the names of the five “canonical” victims of Jack the Ripper. And Emma Smith, although not a victim of Jack the Ripper, is the first victim to appear in the generic Whitechapel Murders file.”
Emma Smith ☞ Jack The Ripper.org