Catherine Eddowes
Catherine "Kate" Eddowes was the fourth victim of the Whitechapel murders, found in Mitre Square on 30 September 1888. Her killing is part of the double murder that starts the Jack the Ripper expansion.
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Appears in
ProloguePrologue is the first memory of the Jack the Ripper DLC, dated 30 September 1888. You play as Jack the Ripper himself, chasing Jacob Frye through Whitechapel after Jacob reaches a double murder scene at Mitre Square.- The UnfortunatesThe Unfortunates is the third Jack the Ripper memory: Evie searches Jacob's Whitechapel lodgings, picks up her first fear bombs and spikes, then tracks Jacob's contact Nellie from a brothel to a charity event run by Lady Owers at the Kenway Mansion.
- The Mother of All CrimesThe Mother of All Crimes is the eighth Jack the Ripper memory, set on 9 November 1888: Evie examines the scene of Mary Jane Kelly's murder, then follows a message from Jack back to the earlier murder sites in Spitalfields and Mitre Square, searching for clues without killing anyone.
Good to know
- Born 14 April 1842 in Graisley Green, Wolverhampton.
- Also known as Kate Conway and Kate Kelly.
- Had two common-law husbands, the second named John Kelly.
- Friends described her as bright and cheerful, with a fierce temper.
- Mitre Square, where she was found, is also the site of a fight club activity in the expansion.
Her life
Eddowes could not pay for her bed at Cooney's lodging house in Spitalfields in 1881 and turned to sex work; the game places her in one of Lady O's brothels.
In the story
Nellie, who knew her as Katey, is devastated by the news of her death in the prologue. Jack later leaves a taunting note for Evie at her murder scene.
The ringSpoilerShow
An Assassin ring found where she died is what tells Evie that the victim may have been one of Jacob's initiates rather than Kate herself.
Following her trail
When Evie returns to Mitre Square in The Mother of All Crimes, she traces the route Eddowes took trying to escape, over crates and then a wall, and reasons from small marks near a haystack that something little was thrown from the ledge. Before any of that she has to break up a residents' meeting angry at the police and the government.
The note at Mitre SquareSpoilerShow
Jack's message there boasts of giving Jacob a double lesson and blames the Creed for failing his mother. Evie realises he grew up nearby and follows the clue to the place where his mother died.
Related characters
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Catherine Eddowes
The woman known as Catherine Eddowes is the fourth Ripper victim in the Jack the Ripper story of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Evie Frye examines her murder scene in The Mother of All Crimes.
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Elizabeth Stride
The woman known as Elizabeth Stride is the third Ripper victim in Assassin's Creed Syndicate's 1888 story. Evie Frye examines her murder scene while following Jack's trail in The Mother of All Crimes.
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Elizabeth Stride
Elizabeth "Long Liz" Stride was the third victim of the Whitechapel murders, found in Dutfield's Yard on 30 September 1888. Her death opens the Jack the Ripper expansion's prologue, on the same night as Catherine Eddowes'.
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Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is the serial killer at the centre of the Jack the Ripper expansion, set in Whitechapel in 1888. Evie Frye returns from India to hunt him, and you also play as Jack himself in several story segments, using his fear-based kit against civilians and police.