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The Identification of Liz Stride
by Dave Yost with Stewart P. Evans
One of the more difficult aspects the
contemporary authorities had to deal with during the Berner
Street case was the proper identification of the victim. Numerous
people viewed the body, but some only saw her that night, never
knowing who she was; some only knew her as "Long Liz";
one identified her from a photo; and, another person claimed she
was her sister. Each of these people (and others) knew, or
thought they knew, the victim in one capacity or another. The
identification of Elizabeth Stride was not an easy task for the
coroner's court, and it will be interesting to see the
progression of how she was eventually and properly identified,
and who might have been the first to correctly do so.
Several people viewed the body on 30
September, which was reported the next day in the newspaper:
