Jack the Ripper? It was Professor Plum in the Drawing Room with the Candlestick.
Hey, it’s a good as guess as anything else written on the subject.
Of course, Wikipedia has a whole page on possible candidates.
It’s been years since I’ve seen it but I remember really enjoying it when if was released. It got positive reviews and did pretty well at the box office. I think it would be worth checking out.
It has been a while, but I recall liking the novel better than the book.
I also enjoyed Time After Time. I remember it as a good, sometimes even scary time-travel thriller with a charming romantic subplot, and some funny fish-out-of-water gags with H.G. Wells in late-Seventies San Francisco.
Weird. I recall liking the film better than the movie. 
And, conversely, the Ripper character finding his home away from home in post-60s, pre-AIDS Baghdad by the Bay.
(Played deliciously by David Warner.)
Bravo!
Another suspect: Redjac | Memory Alpha | Fandom
One of my favorite movies! I need to watch it again!
Yup. I must’ve seen it three or four times when it was in heavy rotation in HBO’s early days.
No one really knows who Jack the Ripper was. There have been scores of accusations, most completely ridiculous. Lewis Carroll is, so far, the most ridiculous one I’ve heard.
For some reason, the people who make these idiotic accusations always seem to be sure they’re correct, despite the complete lack of any credible evidence for their case.
That’s what makes it so much fun! Some guy comes along with a pet theory and we get to rip it to shreds. Lately here it’s been .999… = 1, and sometimes 9/11 (JREF’s best for them), but we haven’t had a good Albanian Genocide Denial thread in years.
Yes. I saw it when it first came out and it’s only gotten better with time.
My pick is Aaron Kosminski.
We frequently refer to McDonald’s as “that Scottish restaurant.”
And the woman who plays Mrs. Wells, or the character who becomes Mrs. Wells, is/was EXTREMELY good-looking.
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The shawl’s provenance is, shall we say, suspect. The mtDNA is not definitive; it just limits the pool. I this case to roughly 400,000 people. You may say, “but how many of those were in Whitechapel in 1888?” Probably quite a lot. The Jewish population of Whitechapel in 1888 was between 45,000 and 50,000, many fairly closely related. Aaron Kosminski might not even be the Kosminski who was suspected.
More about Kosminski: http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/kosfinal.html
The thread about the latest findings: Kosminski and Victim DNA Match on Shawl - Casebook: Jack the Ripper Forums
How so? Did the guy’s relatives let their DNA be sampled?
Apparently yes. The precise details might be in the book. Otherwise, all I know is what’s in some newspaper articles.
I imagine a phone call request would work out like this: