Elizabeth Long Liz Stride (née Gustafsdottir , November 27, 1843 - September 30, 1888) is the alleged victim of the infamous remaining unknown serial killer nicknamed Jack the Ripper , who killed and mutilated several women in the Whitechapel district of London from late August 18 to November .
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Some researchers explain that the nickname “Long Liz” was used as a pseudonym, others believe that it came from her last name adopted after marriage, since “stride” means a long step, and they also assume that the nickname is given because of her growth. By the time of her death, Stride was living in a rooming house at Flow and Dean Street in Spitafields, the former home of criminals.
Biography
Elizabeth Gustafsdottir was born on November 27, 1843 in the county of Torsland, west of Gothenburg, Sweden, into the family of farmer Gustaf Erickson and his wife Beata Karlsdottir. In 1860, she worked as the domestic servant of Karl Johan County in Gothenburg. The next few years, she moved from county to county. Unlike other victims of Whitechapel murders who engaged in prostitution after a broken marriage, Stride became a prostitute before marriage. In March 1865, the Gothenburg police registered her as a prostitute who was twice treated for a sexually transmitted disease. April 21, she gave birth to a dead girl.
The following year, she moved to London, possibly to work as a domestic servant. On March 7, 1869, she married John Thomas Stride, a ship carpenter from Shirns, who was 13 years her senior. For some time, the couple kept a coffee shop in Poplar, in east London. In March 1877, Liz Stride moved to Poplar's workhouse, which suggested that the couple had broken up. They apparently restored relations in 1881, but again parted, this time finally, at the end of the year.
She told acquaintances that her husband and two of her nine children died in the flooding of the Princess Alice steamer on the River Thames in 1878. According to her story, during the accident, one of the victims hit her in the face while they sailed to the shore, because of this she began to stutter. In fact, Joe Stride died of consumption in the Poplar and Stepney Hospital on October 24, 1884, more than five years before the disaster and they had no children.
After a divorce from her husband, Stride lived in an overnight stay in Whitechapel. Once or twice she was assisted by the Church of Sweden in London. Most of the time from 1885 until her death, she lived with local docker Michael Kidney in Devonshire Street. According to the description of a friend, she had a calm temperament, although many times she appeared before the Thames magistrate's court for drunkenness and debauchery under the name of Anna Fitzgerald. She taught Yiddish. Her relationship with Kidney continued from time to time. In April 1887, she charged him with assault, but she failed to prove it in court. A few days before her death, she left Kidney. Dr. Thomas Barnardo (a well-known philanthropist) said he saw Stride in a rooming house at Flower and Dean Street on Wednesday, September 26th.
Notes
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Literature
- Begg, Paul (2003). Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History . London: Pearson Education. ISBN 0-582-50631-X
- Cook, Andrew (2009). Jack the Ripper . Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84868-327-3
- Evans, Stewart P .; Rumbelow, Donald (2006). Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates . Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-4228-2
- Evans, Stewart P .; Skinner, Keith (2000). The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook: An Illustrated Encyclopedia . London: Constable and Robinson. ISBN 1-84119-225-2
- Evans, Stewart P .; Skinner, Keith (2001). Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell . Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-2549-3
- Fido, Martin (1987). The Crimes, Death and Detection of Jack the Ripper . Vermont: Trafalgar Square. ISBN 978-0-297-79136-2
- Marriott, Trevor (2005). Jack the Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation . London: John Blake. ISBN 1-84454-103-7
- Rumbelow, Donald (2004). The Complete Jack the Ripper: Fully Revised and Updated . London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-017395-1
- Sugden, Philip (2002). The Complete History of Jack the Ripper . Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 0-7867-0276-1
- White, Jerry (2007). London in the Nineteenth Century . London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-06272-5
- Woods, Paul; Baddeley, Gavin (2009). Saucy Jack: The Elusive Ripper . Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7110-3410-5