Has it ever been explored that there may have been more than one ripper. Ie ,the original and a copy cat?
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Has it ever been explored that there may have been more than one ripper. Ie ,the original and a copy cat?
So, Patricia Cornwell claims to have solved the Ripper case. Again. Or this is really more of an update.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...-jack-the-ripper/story-fn9412vp-1226772183050
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...y-cracked-patricia-cornwell-article-1.1533524
Just google it, it's everywhere, befitting a crime writer with a key sense of PR.
Yeah I've heard a couple of podcasts where they demolish her arguments pretty brutally.
Including the two most obvious ones? Where did Sickert get the surgical skill from? And whereas Jack was apparently de-evolving with each crime, how did Sickert manage to just stop killing and go about his other life as a painter?
You mean HH Holmes being Jack?
Will be interesting to see what happens from here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746321/Jack-Ripper-unmasked-How-amateur-sleuth-used-DNA-breakthrough-identify-Britains-notorious-criminal-126-years-string-terrible-murders.html
Most experts agree that it was the work of 2 seperate killers.Has it ever been explored that there may have been more than one ripper. Ie ,the original and a copy cat?
Not sure about the '2 killers' theory (or theories) being mostly accepted by experts. It's just another of the many ideas that have been raised. The fact is - we don't have a lot of info from the time, we are extremely unlikely to get any more real evidence (hence the excitement over this possible - but unlikely - shawl).Most experts agree that it was the work of 2 seperate killers.
Most documentries "need" a new killer for obvious reasons.
Most experts{not media whores} then and now agree that a local working in one of the many killing factories of the area was probably responsible and death rates from homocide,alcohol,and other diseases in the scum area may have taken care of him.
Just another statistic really,1880 media scumbags have hijacked the case and thats why we talk about it today.
2 killer theory or 2 different cases is accepted by most crime experts,different modus operandi accepted then and now.Not sure about the '2 killers' theory (or theories) being mostly accepted by experts.
The 2 killers theory is as good as any other (except it's not quite as good a story as the mysterious 'lone nutter'). There's just as much actual evidence for one killer as two - ie, very, very little.
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DNA on a prostitute's belongings, not really that surprising. If it was a busy night for her there might be DNA evidence from 20 Jack the Rippers out there.
For mine it comes down to the writings and style of killings, very theological/methodical. Kosminski never jumped out as a real suspect because his insanity was more maniac, I'd imagine his crimes would have been less surgical.
Its the fact that he was a suspect, AND he has DNA evidence. Its not like he was a random citizen.
Probably one of the better doco's on this over surplussed case.Anyone see the doco on SBS last night, Missing evidence: Jack the Ripper, it named Charles Allen Lechmere (or Cross) as the prime suspect.
He discovered Mary Ann Nichols body in Bucks Row and was happened upon by Robert Paul. A reconstruction of the timings of the various witness statements showed that Lechmere had 8 or 9 minutes unaccounted for, enough time to kill Nichols. He claimed he had discovered the body only moments before Paul arrived.
He stopped Paul in the street and after the 2 men looked briefly at the body they left the scene together. They then met a policeman, PC Mizen, to whom Lechmere gave a false name, that of his stepfather i.e. Cross. He also lied about leaving another policeman with the body. This was not realised at the time as PC Mizen found PC Neil, who came across the body independently, at the scene.
Lechmere lived on the eastern side of the Whitechapel district and transited through the area in the early hours of the morning to work at the Broad St yards as a carman (meat deliveryman). He knew the area intimately having lived there all his life.
I hadn't heard him named as a suspect before but he was on the scene of one of the crimes and certainly had opportunity. It's astounding he wasn't a prime suspect at the time.
More info here:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/michael-connor/2010/04/jack-the-ripper-the-prime-suspect/
Probably one of the better doco's on this over surplussed case.
I did see this and was fascinated by it.Anyone see the doco on SBS last night, Missing evidence: Jack the Ripper, it named Charles Allen Lechmere (or Cross) as the prime suspect.
He discovered Mary Ann Nichols body in Bucks Row and was happened upon by Robert Paul. A reconstruction of the timings of the various witness statements showed that Lechmere had 8 or 9 minutes unaccounted for, enough time to kill Nichols. He claimed he had discovered the body only moments before Paul arrived.
He stopped Paul in the street and after the 2 men looked briefly at the body they left the scene together. They then met a policeman, PC Mizen, to whom Lechmere gave a false name, that of his stepfather i.e. Cross. He also lied about leaving another policeman with the body. This was not realised at the time as PC Mizen found PC Neil, who came across the body independently, at the scene.
Lechmere lived on the eastern side of the Whitechapel district and transited through the area in the early hours of the morning to work at the Broad St yards as a carman (meat deliveryman). He knew the area intimately having lived there all his life.
I hadn't heard him named as a suspect before but he was on the scene of one of the crimes and certainly had opportunity. It's astounding he wasn't a prime suspect at the time.
More info here:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/michael-connor/2010/04/jack-the-ripper-the-prime-suspect/