Jane the Ripper

Jane the Ripper V · T · F
Occupation	Murderer
Biological information
Last known status	Deceased (prior to Oct. 22, Meiji 35)
Eye color	Black
Hair color	Auburn
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	Unknown
Associates
Family	None mentioned
Friends	None mentioned
Affiliates	None mentioned
Aliases/nicknames
Jane the Ripper* (real name unknown)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	The Return of the Great Departed Soul (as a waxwork only)

Ryunosuke Naruhodo

I, I knew it! You can t-t-tell by the way she's h-holding that knife. Sure sign of a m-m-murderer!

Iris Wilson

...Well yes.

— The Return of the Great Departed Soul

Jane the Ripper was an infamous murderer active in London at some point prior to Albert Harebrayne's trial. All of her victims were young women, but she was eventually caught and executed, with a waxwork of her being made in the hours immediately following her execution and using her corpse for reference. This waxwork would be put on display in the "House of Horrors" exhibit in Madame Tusspells Museum of Waxworks.

Killer on display

The waxwork of Jane the Ripper.

When they first visited the wax museum in search of Herlock Sholmes, Iris Wilson brought Ryunosuke Naruhodo directly to the "House of Horrors" exhibit, much to his dismay. While initially mistaking the waxworks of London's most infamous killers for the real thing, he was soon corrected by Wilson and, although still terrified, was in awe at how lifelike the waxworks were.

One of these exhibits was of the waxwork of Jane the Ripper gleefully raising a knife while looking down on a cowering young woman. The diorama this was set within appeared to show some manner of ornate room containing a conspicuous bathtub, while a nearby board provided more information. During his first visit to the museum with Wilson, Naruhodo believed that the scene showed Jane the Ripper intending to fill the bathtub with blood so she could "soak in her victims' gore". However, Wilson pointed out that the information board did not mention the bathtub at all, stating that it was irrelevant to the scene; Naruhodo was unsatisfied by this and felt that there had to be a reason for the bathtub being present.

When Naruhodo later returned to the museum with Susato Mikotoba, the latter postulated that the bathtub "was meant to show that the killer also worked in a bathhouse peddling criminal wares", with Naruhodo thinking to himself that this was a possible new theory about the seemingly unnecessary bathtub.

Name

• "Jane the Ripper" is a reference to the real-life serial killer Jack the Ripper. Incidentally, another unnamed display strongly resembles a more typical depiction of Jack the Ripper, who has been previously been mentioned in the Ace Attorney series (more specifically during dialogue in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies.)

Note

• The comment by Naruhodo about Jane the Ripper bathing in her victims' blood is likely a reference to the alleged serial killer Elizabeth Báthory, who supposedly bathed in the blood of her virgin victims to retain her youth.