So common in ripperology, sadly.
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.
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.
Nonsense. There is documentary proof that he was in Kenya at the time.
So what was the proper term for a woman ripper? A murderess? A killatrix? A homicidienne?
The crazy.
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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.