Why did he do it
random acts of violence
against unwitting
women who were of
a lower class, but why
is their story to mesh
with this villainy like the
Catherine Eddowes
bare-footed and drunk

Why after sobering
did she happen to take
the longest route to her lodging
in the wee hours
of the foggy morning
her last sighting
was of her speaking
to a man in a navy coat
and red scarf

Her last moments
dastardly taken from her
discarded in the alley
a horrific ending
to a life that may not
have been her best
but a life it was
just another mystery
of the Whitechapel Murders
and those that were
sucked into the evil