There are five caches numbered in chronological order of the murders with a possible sixth victim being cache number 6. You can find the caches in sequence but to avoid wear and tear on your feet, I suggest the order of: 1, 3, 6, 4, 5, 2 and 7.
To get to Jack’s hideaway at Cache No 7 you have to visit each of the six caches to find the clues to the final co-ordinates.
The caches are designed to be done independently but could be finished in a single visit. On Sundays the area is especially lively with popular markets at Columbia Road, Brick Lane, Petticoat Lane and Spitalfields. Whitechapel and Spitalfields are safe to visit during the day, but those of a nervous or crime cautious disposition should give the hunt a miss after dark. There is no doubt, however, that a hunt for Jack the Ripper is more creepy and atmospheric after the sun has gone down... Prosperity may be changing the character of the East End yet the melancholy air left by years of crime and poverty remains as you wander its streets.
Victim No 2: Annie Chapman
Annie Chapman is generally regarded as the second of Jack the Ripper’s victims. She was murdered on 8 September 1888.
Annie was in her 40s working as a prostitute at the time of her death. In the early hours of 8 September, she had an argument with the night watchman at her lodging house in notorious Dorset Street (see cache No 5) about the fact she spent her money on drink rather than rent. At 5.30 am Elizabeth Long spotted Annie by cache location with a man and overheard him ask "Will you?" "Yes," Annie was heard to reply... Shortly thereafter, Albert Cadoch passed the wooden fence which separated his yard from the murder site. He heard a woman crying "No!" and something falling against the fence… The Daily News of 10 September 1888 described the scene as follows:-
"Chapman was of the same class as Mary Ann Nicholls, and she was butchered in much the same way. If there was a difference, it was in favour of the earlier victim. The head of Annie Chapman, the latest, had been nearly severed from her body by one stroke of a sharp knife, and her person, mutilated in a manner too horrible for description had been disposed about her in a way that suggested a delight in the slaughter for the slaughter's sake.” In fact, Annie Chapman had been disembowelled.
Annie’s murder happened not long after Mary Nicholls’. A pattern was beginning to emerge… as The Daily News put it, “there can no longer be any doubt that we have to deal with some form of malignant insanity. A monster is abroad.”
The street of Annie’s murder still exists under its original name. One side of it was demolished in the 1970s to be replaced with a brewery but the buildings opposite are original to the period.
QUESTION: A brewery now occupies the spot where Annie‘s body was found (a small indented doorway in the brick wall marks the approximate place). A couple of metres away there are two dates relating to the Huguenots of Spitalfields. Add up all 8 numbers to give CD.
Note: Due to significant building work around many of the caches a lot of the questions have had to be changed. The final location of the physical cache has not been changed. If you are part way through finding the information please feel free to contact me and I will help point you in the right direction.