Jack the Ripper’s face has been finally unveiled, or so it appears after being under wraps for over a century, according to newly discovered artifacts. 

The face of one of the world’s most elusive and infamous serial murderers was allegedly found carved into the handle of a wooden walking stick owned by the London cop who spent years in an attempt to catch the London serial killer.

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Scotland Yard detective Frederick Abberline was tasked with capturing the mysterious butcherer. He was taken off the case in 1889 after he failed to catch the notorious Jack the Ripper, who terrorized London’s East End.

The face etched into the handle is the only reported facial composition of the Ripper whose identity still remains a mystery more than a century later.

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Abberline’s wooden cane was stored for years at the Police College in Bramshill, Hampshire, UK, but was feared lost when the institution was shut in 2015. Later, it resurfaced at the College of Policing’s headquarters in Ryton, West Midlands when staff was searching through various memorabilia and they stumbled upon the historic artifact.

“Finding this cane was an exciting moment for us. This walking cane is such a fascinating artefact which represents such a historically significant time in policing,” said Antony Cash, the college’s content creator.

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“Jack the Ripper is one of the biggest and most infamous murder cases in our history and his crimes were significant in paving the way for modern policing and forensics as it caused police to begin experimenting with and developing new techniques as they attempted to try and solve these murders, such as crime scene preservation, profiling and photography,” Antony Cash added.