Jefferson Hope was an American frontiersman and later murderer. After the kidnapping and death of his fiancée Lucy Ferrier and the murder of her father John by the Avenging Angels, he later traveled to London, where he killed Enoch Drebber and Joseph Stangerson in revenge for their roles in the deaths. Hope killed Joseph Stangerson by climbing on a ladder from the street to the hotel room Stangerson was staying at. Hope at first offered Stangerson a choice of poison or no poison but after Stangerson rejected Hope's offer, Hope stabbed Stangerson in the gut.