Was he a Doctor? Was he royalty? Just a crazed psychotic nobody? What’s your theory?
I personally think he was a Doctor of some sort, maybe passed around as a child, an orphan so to speak. Maybe he was abused quite a bit. But definitely someone people of that era would least suspect.
(The late) John Fiedler.
From what I’ve read, the evidence that he showed a level of knowledge or precision which would be expected from a doctor tends to be greatly exaggerated.
My guess is that he was some unknown weirdo who has probably never tirned up on any of the popular lists of suspects.
Since the suspect list included, at one time, pretty much every wierdo who could be a suspect (the London cops cast a wide net) I assume otherwise. However, this is FINALLY a GD I can follow! As a good American I have to support my homeboy, Dr Francis Tumelty. Motive (mysogynist who collected the Naughty Bits of women in pickle jars), means (doctor, but no great surgeon), and opportunity (in the neighborhood at the time in question; murders stopped after he left).
Those of you who need a refresher course, or need to know pretty much everything there is to know about the case, please go to http://www.casebook.org/ . Warning: You may never sleep soundly again. OTOH, ignore the Royal connection because it’s too stooopid to consider. The movie “From Hell” is “fun” but, (spoiler) like I said…(/spoiler). OTOH, Mary was so mutilated that (spoiler) the end game could work.(/spoiler) (Parentheses used rather than brackets because anybody who’d want to see it has seen it and why discomfort everybody else?)
He’s somebody that was never arrested or suspected by the law or the theorists.
Most likely, he stopped because he was committed to an aslyum or killed, possibly by a relative(s) who learned the truth.
Victorian society encouraged families to hide/bury shameful secrets. If the Ripper’s family did learn the truth, you can bet nobody else ever will.
Naw, the Queen did it.
Brian May held them down and Freddie Mercury did them in.
Surely, it was George W Bush. I’ll find the link in a minute.
Not arguing at all, but can ya link me to that source stating that his precision slicing and dicing wasn’t the work of a Doctor and exaggerated?
I am curiously fascinated by these freaks.
That wouldn’t surprise me; for some reason people tend to see surgical precision where there is none, like it cattle “mutilations” for example.
I don’t have a link handy, but in the books I’ve read on the subject, it’s been said that crimes could have been committed by anyone who had a general anotomical knowledge, such as a butcher. The parts removed from the victims were basically hacked from their bodies, not surgically removed.
As an aside, what do ya’ll think of Patricia Cornwell’s theory about the artist?
Utter nonsense. Ridden throughout with shoddy reasoning, speculative jumps, and denial of evidence. It wasn’t Sickert.
The Metroplotian Police also have a decent Ripper page.
My “favourite” suspect is Aaron Kosminski. For me, the biggest thing in his favour is the behaviour of the police. Whitechapel was very heavily policed for a few months after the last murder. Immediately after Kosminski’s detention, the police patrols dropped back very quickly.
I don’t think she proved Sickert was the JtR but I think she did make a pretty strong case for him writing some of the Ripper letters (but the letters she connects to him were never regarded as authentic).
That’s true. I do tend to believe that he wrote a couple of the letters. Him and every other nutjob in London. OK, so it’s not utter nonsense - only 99 99/100% nonsense.
I’m not sure that any of the letters are regarded as authentic anymore. Can’t cite that; I’m not sure where I picked it up.
It probably was John Pizer (1850-1897).
Pizer was a Polish Jew who worked as a bootmaker in Whitechapel
This was revealed as a fact 7-8 weeks ago in the news
The police didn’t wanna reveal who the murder was back then because they where afraid of creating waves of antisemitism and a country where antisemitism already was present
Cite?
The only British info I’ve found so far is this:
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No, it’s quite obvious that Jack was taken away by the Vorlons and…
…what?
It was meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Why do I picture you twirling your pearls like Bea Lillie when you say that?
I go with John Pizer or Aaron Kosminski. None of the “celebrity suspects” seem to make much sense, evidence-wise.
I don’t know what “news” you saw, but Pizer is one of umpteen possibles discussed in the case over the years without any decent supporting evidence. There are no new revelations about him of which I’m aware.
Well, you don’t want to risk creating something, especially if it’s already present. :rolleyes:
Your theory reeks of fitzschnappel.
Despite all the rumors, I don’t believe the Ripper was Kaiser Wilhelm. Means, yes - motive, maybe - but the lack of opportunity is the clincher. Plus it’s hard to commit multiple murders or cut up bodies when you’ve only got one functional hand.