The murders ended when Mac'atyde died on the other side of a portal. He never caught the killer but historians assumed that he had stopped them. (COMIC: Ripper's Curse) He was a clockmaker before becoming a policeman but, by his own admission, he was never a very good one. (AUDIO: The Wax Princess) At some point that year, Madame Vastra killed someone that she identified as Jack the Ripper. She instructed her maid Jenny Flint to send a telegram to the inspector, informing him that Jack the Ripper had claimed his last victim. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)