Compléter Filling the gapVersion en ligne Read the text and complete with the right word par CAMILO VARON 1 proved was by crime detectives been been police was solve investigation family identity was women kill In the autumn of 1888 a brutal murderer walked the dark , foggy streets of London , terrorizing the inhabitants of the city . The victims were all and the police seemed powerless to stop the murders . Panic and fear among Londoners increased by a letter sent a murderer to Scotland Yard . In the letter he made fun of the police's attempts to catch him and promise to again . It finished , " yours truly , Jack the ripper " . This the first of many letters sent to the . The murders continued ? seventy in total . But in November , they suddenly stopped , three months after they had first begun . Jack the ripper never caught and for more than a century historians , writers , policemen and have tried to discover and prove his . Hundreds of articles and books have written and many films made about the murders . But the questions " who was Jack the Ripper ? " has remained unanswered . There have plenty of suspects including a doctor , a businessman , a painter and even a member of the royal . Three years ago the American writer Patricia Cornwell left aside her fictional detective , Kay Scarpetta , and tried to the real - life murder mystery of Jack the Ripper . After spending a considerable amount of time and money on her , and analyzing DNA samples , Cornwell thinks she has who Jack the Ripper really wa s