Swedish People Murdered Abroad - Folke Bernadotte, Raoul Wallenberg, Elizabeth Stride, Nicholas Gustafson, Victor Gunnarsson, Heidi Paakkonen (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Folke Bernadotte, Raoul Wallenberg, Elizabeth Stride, Nicholas Gustafson, Victor Gunnarsson, Heidi Paakkonen, Urban Hglin, Hanna Charlotta Backlund. Excerpt: The canonical five Jack the Ripper victims Elizabeth "Long Liz" Stride (ne Gustafsdotter) (27 November 1843 - 30 September 1888) is believed to be the third victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer called Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London from late August to early November 1888. Elizabeth Stride was 44-years-old when she was murdered. She was nicknamed "Long Liz"; several explanations have been given for this pseudonym. Some believe it was related to her married surname "Stride" - in East End slang, anyone called Stride was likely to be called "long" because a stride is a long step - while others believe it was because of her height or the shape of her face. At the time of her death she was living in a common lodging-house at 32 Flower and Dean Street, Spitalfields, within what was then a notorious criminal rookery . Life and background Stride was the daughter of a Swedish farmer, Gustaf Ericsson, and his wife Beata Carlsdotter. She was born Elisabeth Gustafsdotter in the parish of Torslanda, west of Gothenburg, Sweden, on 27 November 1843. In 1860, she took work as a domestic in the Gothenburg parish of Carl Johan, moving again in the next few years to other Gothenburg districts. Unlike most other victims of these crimes, who fell into prostitution due to poverty after a failed marriage, Stride took it up earlier. By 1865 she was registered by the Gothenburg police as a prostitute, was treated twice for a sexually transmitted disease and gave birth to a stillborn girl on 21 April 1865. The following year she moved to London, possibly in domestic servi...