Charles Allen Lechmere

Charles Allen Lechmere
Portrait of Lechmere
Lechmere in 1912
Born(1849-10-05)5 October 1849
Soho, London, England
Died23 December 1920(1920-12-23) (aged 71)
Bow, London, England
Other nameCharles Allen Cross
Known forDiscovering the first canonical Jack the Ripper victim
Jack the Ripper suspect
Spouse
Elizabeth Bostock
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(m. 1870)​
Children11

Charles Allen Lechmere (5 October 1849 – 23 December 1920), also known as Charles Allen Cross, was an English delivery driver who became involved in the unsolved Whitechapel murders after he reportedly found the body of Mary Ann Nichols, the first of Jack the Ripper's five canonical victims.

A native of East London, Lechmere has long been regarded as merely a witness at the crime scene, but since the 2000s, true crime writers have named Lechmere a potential Jack the Ripper suspect, largely due to his having provided authorities with an alias surname and alleged inconsistencies in his testimony.

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