 Tabram was killed on 7 August 1888 ; she had suffered 39 stab wounds . The savagery of the murder , the lack of obvious motive , and the closeness of the location ( George Yard , Whitechapel ) and date to those of the later Ripper murders led police to link them . The attack differs from the canonical murders in that Tabram was stabbed rather than slashed at the throat and abdomen , and many experts today do not connect it with the later murders because of the difference in the wound pattern . 
