Attack on the historian Halle Robenhold because of her controversial book "Jack the Ripper"

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The recently published book "Jack the Ripper" has sparked a lot of controversy. The book revolves around the character of one of the most prominent thugs in the late 19th century in Britain who cut off the throats of women and mutilated their stomachs, and removed the bowels of three of his victims, all women.

The book by Halley Robenhold speaks not of Jack, but of the five victims, and recounts their stories before they are killed, but the writer noted that many critics are making mistakes for her, the Guardian said.

The angry reaction to the victim's life story is unusual, she said, adding that she knew the book would be controversial, especially because some people thought they were too broad on the story of these "victims".

She said she was very excited about the issue and that, despite years of crime in the streets of Britain, people are still looking for an element of the desire to resolve the issue, because this issue is the most prominent case of murder that has not been resolved so far, so There was a real fear of writing such a book, but there is a need to know who the killer is, despite the passage of time.

"There is no need to know exactly who Jack the Ripper was, but the never-ending need to pay attention to the victims of the five," said Robinhold, "Mary Ann" Paulie Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Strayd and Catherine Edwards and Mary Jane Kelly, are victims of savage killing by the savage and their beards removed.

"They were sick, starving, brutally treated and so terribly killed that they had to be highlighted, so I can not understand why all this," said Robinhold, "Kelly" was the most famous victim because she was a pretty young woman. Attack on the book?

"I'm shocked because he did not write a long book about the victims before," she said. "What an incredible neglect."

"We literally have libraries full of information about Jack the Ripper, the same article over and over, and no one has written a full book about the lives of the victims," ​​she said.

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