What did Jack The Ripper do to Catherine Eddowes?

Answer 1

After the killer cut her throat her clothes were cut and ripped down the front, exposing her torso. She was cut open from the chest to the upper thighs. Intestines had been cut out and rested beside her body. Her reproductive organs were stabbed and mutilated and at least one organ was missing.* Her face had been cut, sliced and stabbed. Part of an earlobe was cut off and the end of her nose was barely hanging by a piece of skin. Her injuries were horrendous and beyond belief.

*Eddowes was missing a kidney. Several weeks after her murder a package and letter were sent to John Lusk (Lusk was the head of the vigilante group that trolled the east end looking for the killer.) The package contained one half of a human kidney preserved in alcohol. Dr. Oppenshaw of London Hospital declared it a human kidney in the last stages of Brights disease. Eddowes had been treated for Brights several months before her murder.

Answer 2

Catherine Eddows had the misfortune of crossing paths with Jack the Ripper within an hour of his killing of Elizabeth Stride in the early morning of September 30, 1888. Known to Ripperologists as the 'double event', the Ripper was interrupted by a lone man and his ponycart before he could mutilate Stride. His frustration was evident when the body of Eddows was discovered in Mitre Square, Aldgate, London. Eddows throat was cut most likely from behind, deep enough to almost decapitate her. Her killer then disemboweled her body and mutilated her face, leaving her almost unrecognizable to even her closest friends or family members.