Annie Chapman: The Killer Strikes Again

Story 2. Annie Chapman: The Panic Deepens. Just eight days later on September

8th, the killer struck again and with even greater ferocity. The victim was Annie

Chapman, a 47-year-old whose life had also been marked by a slow, tragic decline.

Born Eliza Ann Smith, she came from a more respectable background than Polly.

Her father was a soldier in the Life Guards. In 1869, she married a gentleman's

coachman, John Chapman, and they lived for a time in Windsor where they had three

children. But their life together was shattered by grief. Their eldest daughter,

Emily, died of meningitis at age 12, and their youngest son was born with