Dr. Thomas Bond's Jack The Ripper Offender Profile.

in late October, 1888, with it become more than apparent that the police were no closer to catching Jack the Ripper than they had been when the murders began, Dr. Robert Anderson, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police, wrote to Dr. Thomas Bond to ask him if the murderer had displayed any medical knowledge. He enclosed the reports from the inquests into the four victims who had been murdered up to that point. On the 9th of November, Jack the Ripper struck again and murdered Mary Kelly, in Miller's Court, off Dorset Street in Spitalfields. Dr Bond spent much of that afternoon conducting a post mortem examination of Mary Kelly's body, and the next day (the 10th of November) he replied to Anderson's query. His report established the idea of the canonical five victims that is often still adhered to today. In addition, Bond also gave his opinion as to what sort of person the murderer was. In so doing, he created one of the earliest examples of criminal profiling. This video takes a close look at Dr. Thomas Bond's profile of the Whitechapel murderer.