Given that the area in which the Whitechapel murders occurred was one of the most densely populated districts in the whole of Victorian London, and given that there were people out on its streets 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it was inevitable that people would have seen the victims in the hours leading up to their murders.
On this page we list the various witnesses who gave evidence to the police in the wake of the murders, or who testified at the inquests into the deaths of the victims.
Joseph Barnett | PC Thomas Barrett | Thomas Bates |
J. Best | Elizabeth Bell | Mary Bousfield |
Thomas Bowyer | James Brown |
Albert Cadosch | Ellen Callaran | Mrs Carthy |
Mary Ann Connelly | Thomas Conway | Eliza Cooper |
Mary Ann Cox | Charles Cross | Alfred George Crow |
John Kelly | Mrs Kennedy | James Kent |
Michael Kidney | Dr. Timothy Killeen | Isaac Kozebrodski |
Philip Krantz |
Catherine Lane | John Lardy | Charles Letchford |
Maurice Lewis | Sarah Lewis | Harriet Lilley |
Elizabeth Long | A Woman Named Lyons |
Robert Mann | Elizabeth Mahoney | William Marshall |
Caroline Maxwell | Mrs McCarthy | Mary Anne Monk |
Ann Morris | Alfred, Edward or Patrick Mulshaw |
Matthew Packer | Amelia Palmer | Robert Paul |
Mrs. Paumier | Annie Phillips | Elizabeth Phoenix |
Elizabeth Prater | Walter Purkiss |