Gordon Frederick Cummins - the “Blackout Ripper”.
Gordon Frederick Cummins - the “Blackout Ripper”. A serial killer stalked the streets of London in February 1942. He murdered four women over a six day period. The first victim was 40 year old Evelyn Hamilton whose body was discovered in an air raid shelter at Montagu Place in Marylebone on Sunday the 7th of February. Evelyn had been strangled and robbed. The corpse of 35 year old prostitute, Evelyn Oatley, was discovered in her flat at 153 Wardour Street in Soho the following day by two meter readers. She too had been strangled, had her throat cut, been sexually assaulted and mutilated with a razor. A prostitute named Margaret Florence Lowe was the next, on the 12th of February at Flat 4 at 9/10 Gosfiled Street in Fitzrovia. She too had been strangled and seriously sexually assaulted. Doris Jouannet was the final victim, her body being discovered in her Paddington flat at 187 Sussex Gardens, also strangled and mutilated. The killer struck again on Friday the 14th of Febru