Eddowes Mortuary Practices

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Eddowes Mortuary Practices

Casebook Message Boards: Ripper Victims: Specific Victims: Catherine Eddowes: Eddowes Mortuary Practices

Author: D. Radka
Tuesday, 19 January 1999 - 10:08 pm

May I request some help in interpreting one of the Eddowes mortuary photographs? This is the one in which the body in rigor mortis has been propped up against the wall in front of a ventilation duct.

Does anyone know if the wound made to extract the kidney could have been sewn shut from the inside? This practice is used on the mouth by morticians to prevent agape', and Eddowes' other wounds have obviously been sewn. Would the morticians have sewn up the kidney wound as well, and pushed the stiches back inside?

Thanks very much for any help you can afford.

David

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