The still-unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper killed his first known victim on this day in history, Aug. 31, 1888. On this day, a woman named Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols, 43, was found murdered in London’s Whitechapel neighborhood. Nichols, who had a
Staff discovered the sinister artefact while searching through memorabilia. The chilling face with haunting eyes is carved into the handle of a walking stick presented to the Scotland Yard detective who hunted the Ripper in the 1880s. For years, it had been