The woman who murdered her love's Wife and child

The woman who murdered her love's Wife and child 

On December 23, 1890, an English woman named Mary Pearcey was hanged for the brutal murder of her lover's wife and child. According to authorities, Pearcey had thrown the baby into the street and then slit the woman's throat so deeply that she was nearly decapitated. Then at her trial, Pearcey said, "My sentence is a just one, but a good deal of the evidence against me was false."

The meaning behind that eerie message remains unknown, but some claim that Pearcey was confessing to being the notorious "Jack the Ripper," who had butchered five women in London's Whitechapel District just two years before she was executed. In addition to her bizarre "confession," Pearcey's modus operandi was shockingly similar to the Ripper's. And shortly before her execution, she had placed a mysterious ad in a Spanish newspaper that read "M.E.C.P. Last wish of M.E.W. Have not betrayed." Some believe that "M.E.W." refers to her maiden name, Mary Eleanor Wheeler, and that "M.E.C.P." refers to four Ripper victims: Mary Jane Kelly, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Polly Nichols.

Take a closer look at the chilling theory that Jack the Ripper was actually a woman