 McKenzie was killed on 17 July 1889 by severance of the left carotid artery . Several minor bruises and cuts were found on the body , discovered in Castle Alley , Whitechapel . One of the examining pathologists , Thomas Bond , believed this to be a Ripper murder , though his colleague George Bagster Phillips , who had examined the bodies of three previous victims , disagreed . Later writers are also divided between those who think that her murderer copied the Ripper 's modus operandi to deflect suspicion from himself , and those who ascribe it to the Ripper . 
