# 8-Millionth Jack the Ripper theory: It was a dame! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-millionth-jack-the-ripper-theory-it-was-a-dame/621623 "2012-05-11T16:37:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![medicated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@medicated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medicated)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-millionth-jack-the-ripper-theory-it-was-a-dame/621623/21 "2012-05-19T13:27:34Z")
So common in ripperology, sadly. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-millionth-jack-the-ripper-theory-it-was-a-dame/621623/22 "2012-05-19T13:33:24Z")
I’ve been reading that site mentioned above ever since I made the post and recognise the name of the surgeon as Gull. It seems, I have mixed up a few facts (it was supposedly the son of Edward VII, not Edward himself) but I can’t find the book I read. It was about 30 years ago, so I’m not surprised that I have messed a few things up. BTW, that Casebook site is something else. The people seem really devoted to the murders but the command of the written word is not always great- it is difficult to understand what they are saying. Or they get thing strangely wrong as in “he deluged himself that he was a genius painter.” Maybe deluded would have been the word. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-millionth-jack-the-ripper-theory-it-was-a-dame/621623/23 "2012-05-19T14:03:33Z")
I am reminded of the passage in Wambaugh’s book “The Blooding” (about a British murder investigation in which the serial killer was the first ever nabbed by a DNA profile). During a brainstorming session among detectives, one speculated that a woman might have done the murders, which led to [these immortal remarks](http://books.google.com/books?id=1eoyK2Ycj30C&pg=PT44&lpg=PT44&dq=demon+bloody+bowler+the+blooding&source=bl&ots=sQu5xDjqJC&sig=nT1gW5lkNXnzHppMK7wBIRKKWsI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Zqe3T_D2DJHQgAeRntXCCg&ved=0CEgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false). ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-millionth-jack-the-ripper-theory-it-was-a-dame/621623/24 "2012-05-19T15:52:04Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I heard that it was Obama. Nonsense. There is documentary proof that he was in Kenya at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-millionth-jack-the-ripper-theory-it-was-a-dame/621623/25 "2012-05-19T17:27:19Z")
So what was the proper term for a woman ripper? A murderess? A killatrix? A homicidienne? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-millionth-jack-the-ripper-theory-it-was-a-dame/621623/26 "2012-05-19T17:30:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > So what was the proper term for a woman ripper? A murderess? A killatrix? A homicidienne? The crazy. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-millionth-jack-the-ripper-theory-it-was-a-dame/621623/27 "2012-05-19T18:12:59Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-millionth-jack-the-ripper-theory-it-was-a-dame/621623/28 "2012-05-19T22:21:19Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > The crazy. As in “don’t put it in the crazy?” I ask because HG Wells and I are going to follow Jack back to 1888 in Wells’ time machine and Lizzie Williams was kinda cute and maybe she’ll fall for a line about me giving her what her husband can’t. I won’t even need to wear a rubber! I probably should bring some antibiotics, though. LOTS of antibiotics, considering the time and place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-millionth-jack-the-ripper-theory-it-was-a-dame/621623.md?page=1)