Jack the Stripper would travel around Hammersmith in search of victims, preferably caucasian prostit

Jack the Stripper would travel around Hammersmith in search of victims, preferably caucasian prostitutes with dark hair. He would then abduct them, take them to a remote location where for two or three days it was suspected that the Stripper tortures the victims. He would then proceed to strangle, undress and dump them hence his most recent nickname. The nickname arose because of the similarities between him and Jack the Ripper —murdering prostitutes in London—though Jack the Stripper’s spree came nearly a century later.

The police suspected the perpetrator of the Stripper killings to be a misogynist, he would have hated women due to a previous bad experience with one. Profilers had thought his mother may have committed suicide which could have prompted his father to leave him too. His method of stripping the victims of their clothes is his attempt at reducing them to trash. He would have been in his late twenties to early thirties during the 1964-1965 assaults.

He would have knowledge of police investigative methods and evidence gathering techniques and may have Armed Services/Law Enforcement experience. He might have a history of psychiatric care and attempted treatment of antisocial personality disorder. The killer might have a criminal record that was expunged, it would have been for small crimes such as burglary, animal cruelty and vandalism. He would have a history of violence against women and may be married albeit unlikely.

The unknown serial killer murdered 6-8 women from 1964 to 1965.

Chief Superintendent John Du Rose of Scotland Yard, the detective put in charge of the case, interviewed almost 7,000 suspects. In the spring of 1965, the investigation into the murders encountered a major breakthrough when a sample of paint which perfectly matched that recovered from several victims’ bodies was found beneath a concealed transformer at the rear of a building on the Heron Factory Estate in Acton. This factory estate faced a paint spraying shop. Shortly thereafter, Du Rose held a news conference in which he falsely announced that the police had narrowed the suspect pool down to 20 men and that, by a process of elimination, these suspects were being eliminated from the investigation. After a short time, he announced that the suspect pool contained only 10 members, and then three. There were no further known Stripper killings following the initial news conference. 

The most likely suspect, a security guard working for a factory where the paint was traced, committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning shortly after, leaving a note for his wife that read: “I can’t stick it any longer…. To save you and the police looking for me I’ll be in the garage.”