Mary Jane Kelly

Mary Jane Kelly
24 November 1888 Penny Illustrated Paper illustration of Kelly
Born	c. 1863 County Limerick, Ireland
Died	9 November 1888 (aged about 25) Miller's Court, Spitalfields, London, England
Cause of death	Haemorrhage due to severance of the carotid artery[1]
Body discovered	13 Miller's Court, Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London 51°31′7.16″N 0°4′30.47″W / 51.5186556°N 0.0751306°W / 51.5186556; -0.0751306 (Site where Mary Jane Kelly body was found in Spitalfields)
Resting place	St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Leytonstone, London 51°33′26″N 0°00′00″E / 51.557194°N -0°E / 51.557194; -0 (common grave)
Occupation	Prostitute
Known for	Victim of serial murder

Mary Jane Kelly (c. 1863 – 9 November 1888), also known as Marie Jeanette Kelly, Fair Emma, Ginger, Dark Mary and Black Mary, is widely believed by scholars to have been the final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who murdered at least five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888. At the time of Kelly's death, she was approximately 25 years old, working as a prostitute and living in relative poverty.^[2]

Unlike the other four canonical Ripper victims—each of whom had been murdered outdoors and whose mutilations could have been committed within minutes—Kelly was murdered within the sparsely furnished single room she rented at 13 Miller's Court, affording her murderer an extensive period of time to eviscerate and mutilate her body. Kelly's body was by far the most extensively mutilated of the canonical victims, with her mutilations taking her murderer approximately two hours to perform.^[3]