The Whitehall Mystery

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Joe and I love dressing up, this year our official costumes were the Wicked Witch of the West and Flying Monkey. We attended Aaron and Alisha's yearly costume party and won 2nd place! We also went to our new friend "Joe Black's" party, he had this awesome ice luge to take your shots on. Crazy!

We also had back up costumes for the previous night's party at Clint's. We went as scientists and Joe bought dry ice to keep our beakers bubbling with double trouble.

Anyway, it being Halloween and all I wanted to share a true story...read on!

The Whitehall Mystery (courtesy if Wikipedia)

On October 3, 1888 a headless and limbless torso of a woman was found dumped in a vault of what was soon to become a section of the cellar of the New Scotland Yard. An arm belonging to the body had previously been discovered floating in the Thames, and one of the legs was subsequently discovered buried near the spot where the torso was found. The other limbs and head were never recovered and the body never identified.

The Whitehall Mystery and the Pinchin Street Murder (which happened almost a year later) were thought to be the work of a "Torso Killer" or "Torso Murderer" but was never certainly connected to Jack the Ripper. To this day, the Whitehall Mystery has been connected to the legend of Jack the Ripper, who also has never been identified.