1. Elizabeth "Long Liz" Stride is believed to have been the third victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated at least five women in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields districts of London from late August to early November 1888.
Unlike the other four canonical Ripper victims, Stride had not been mutilated following her murder, leading some historians to suspect Stride had not actually been murdered by Jack the Ripper.
However, Elizabeth Stride's murder occurred less than one hour before the murder of the Ripper's fourth canonical victim, Catherine Eddowes, within walking distance, and her act of murder is suspected to have been disturbed by an individual entering the crime scene upon a two-wheeled cart.
Elizabeth Stride was born Elisabeth Gustafsdotter on 27 November 1843 in Stora Tumlehed, a rural village within the parish of Torslanda, west of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Elizabeth Stride was the second of four children born to Swedish farmer Gustaf Ericsson and his wife Beata Carlsdotter.
Elizabeth Stride was treated at least twice for venereal disease.
Elizabeth Stride is known to have briefly dated a policeman in the late 1860s.
In March 1877, Elizabeth Stride was admitted to the Poplar Workhouse, suggesting that the couple had separated by this date.
However, census records from 1881 indicate the two had reunited and lived together in the district of Bow, although the couple had permanently separated by the end of that year, with Elizabeth Stride being admitted to a Whitechapel workhouse infirmary suffering from bronchitis in December 1881.
Elizabeth Stride was discharged from this infirmary on 4 January 1882, and is believed to have taken residence in one of several common lodging-houses on Flower and Dean Street, Whitechapel, shortly thereafter.
Two years later, on 24 October 1884, John Elizabeth Stride died of tuberculosis in the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum.
The couple had a tumultuous relationship and regularly separated, with Elizabeth Stride sleeping in local lodging houses before returning to live with Kidney.
Occasionally, Elizabeth Stride used the alias Annie Fitzgerald at these hearings.
Elizabeth Stride's outfit was complemented by a black crepe bonnet.
Elizabeth Stride immediately ran inside the club to check his wife was safe.
Phillips concurred with this opinion, stating that Elizabeth Stride had probably been lying on her back when she was killed by a single, swift slash wound from left to right across her neck, strongly indicating her murderer had been right-handed.
At approximately the same time, Elizabeth Stride was seen by James Brown rejecting the advances of a stoutish man slightly taller than her in the adjacent street to Berner Street.
Mrs Fanny Mortimer, who lived two doors away from the club, had stood in Berner Street to listen to the communal singing at about the time Elizabeth Stride had been murdered, but had not seen anyone entering the yard or heard anything amiss.
Tanner stated Elizabeth Stride had been a "very quiet" and sober woman.
Tanner said that, although Elizabeth Stride had Swedish heritage, she had "[spoken] English as well as an English woman".
Elizabeth Stride had informed her that her husband and children had drowned in the 1878 Princess Alice paddle steamer sinking.
Lane said Elizabeth Stride had informed her shortly before her death that she had "had a few words" with her partner, and that this was the reason she was again taking residence at Flower and Dean Street.
Elizabeth Stride had given Lane a large piece of green velvet as she left the lodging-house before her death, asking Lane to "mind" the garment until she returned.
Elizabeth Stride added that they had occasionally separated because of Stride's heavy drinking, although she inevitably returned to him.
The murderer could have taken advantage of the checked scarf Elizabeth Stride was wearing to grab her from behind before slitting her throat, as had earlier been suggested by Phillips.
Baxter thought the absence of a shout for assistance and the lack of obvious marks of a struggle indicated that Elizabeth Stride had willingly lain down on the ground before the wound had been inflicted.
Elizabeth Stride was still clenching a packet of cachous in her left hand when she was discovered, indicating that she had not had time to defend herself and that the attack had been sudden.
However, unlike at least three other murder victims then-ascribed to this perpetrator, Elizabeth Stride had received no mutilation injuries, with her sole injury being a deep cut measuring two-and-a-half-inches beneath her jaw, which had severed her left carotid artery and trachea and had terminated beneath her right jaw.
However, some commentators on the case conclude that Elizabeth Stride's murder was unconnected to the other canonical murders This opinion is upon the basis that the body had not been subjected to any mutilation and that this murder was the only murder ascribed to Jack the Ripper to occur south of Whitechapel Road.
The murder of Elizabeth Stride is regarded as one of the canonical Ripper killings due to numerous factors, including the general physical and lifestyle characteristics of the victim, the day of the week she had been murdered, the time of death, the murder location, and the method of her murder.
The deaths of Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride sent London into a renewed state of general panic, as this was the first occasion in which two murders ascribed to the Ripper had occurred in one night.
Elizabeth Stride believed that the kidney was human and originated from the left side of the individual from whom it had been taken.
When interviewed by the police, Packer described the man he had seen as being aged between 25 and 30, slightly taller than Elizabeth Stride, and wearing a soft felt hat.
Elizabeth Stride was convicted of conspiracy to defraud in 1889 and served two years' imprisonment.
Elizabeth Stride was buried on Saturday 6 October 1888 in the East London Cemetery, located within the east London district of Plaistow.
Elizabeth Stride's funeral was attended by a small number of mourners, and the costs were provided at the expense of the parish by the undertaker, a Mr Hawkes.
Elizabeth Stride's headstone is inscribed with her name and the years of her birth and death.