And cultural vandal - she chopped up at least one Sickert painting in a mad attempt to get a DNA sample.
As a kid, I read somewhere that the classified files on JTR will be released after 100 years. I never heard of any releases in the 1980s concerning Jack. And I never got the dope on those files.
It has been many years since I read about the Whitechapel Murders (“Jack the Ripper”) , but the question I always had was :the bodies of many of the victims were expertly gutted-many of them had their internal organs removed…some said that it indicated that the perpetrator had near-surgical skills. My question: this takes time-how come nobody ever saw anything? The victims were mainly prostitutes, living in rooming houses-it is amazing that there were no eyewitnesses.
From more than a few yards in the dark and foggy alleys of 1888 London, I imagine it would be quite difficult to tell the difference between copulation and dissection.
No, it’s not very compelling at all. Jack was a hands-on killer who killed with a knife and cut up his victims in the street. Holmes’ favorite technique was suffocation, either by gas or just an enclosed room. Holmes was a charmer who picked his victims with care, often cultivating them over time. Jack was a guy who suckered poor women in dark alleys. Holmes liked to engage in insurance fraud, or sell the bodies to medical schools (convert them to skeletons). Jack sliced and then left them where they fell.
That article links to this one. It is gibberish, stretching facts in all directions to try to make the two the same.
One striking detail is a comparison of writings from both. Assuming the “From Hell” letter is authentic, it displays a much weaker grasp of the written language than the erudite Holmes.
Holmes:
"I was born with the Devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing … I was born with the Evil One standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into this world, and he has been with me since."
Jack:
*"From hell
*
Mr Lusk
Sor
I send you half the
Kidne I took from one women
prasarved it for you tother piece
I fried and ate it was very nice. I
may send you the bloody knif that
took it out if you only wate a whil
longer.
signed
Catch me when
you Can
Mishter Lusk."
The “kill twenty” and the 27 dead by Holmes argument is rubbish.
First off, if Feigenbaum was German, why does that reproduction look oriental? Second, while the timing is interesting, what that article mostly points out is the possibility that the murders were done by different people.