Okay, so who did it?

Lenkyl: obligatory
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/Leaving satisfied

"A pathologist at the time said the ripper had used the same six-inch knife in all the murders.
"He said it would have been at least six inches long, very sharp, pointed at the top and about an inch in width - a surgeon's knife.
"I am convinced that this is the knife used by Sir John Williams to murder those women."

So, let's follow the logic:
- Jack the Ripper used a surgeon's knife
- this man was a surgeon
- he had a surgeon's knife
- therefore, he was Jack the Ripper

Makes sense to me.

He'll never prove that is the murder weapon. He's handling it without latex gloves and getting his DNA all over it.

I like Walter Sickert for the murders.

I used to be a profound Ripperologist, but after awhile, I had a choice of either descending into total fanaticism and turning a room in my house into a Ripper museum, or allowing my brain to grow numb to the subject and doing something else.

/I built a mud wrestling ring in the backyard.

It would be awesome if they ever prove conclusively who did it. Then people could let it go. I doubt Jack the Ripper was the first serial killer or even the most prolific of his age. HH Holmes did more. He has remained a media darling primarily because he didn't get caught.

Rusty Shackleford: Dere little Tonie,

i red yor book it were a laff. i am down on welshmen and shant quit ripping them till i do get buckled.

i sent you harf the kidne i took from the last woman prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer.

hoping this finds you as it leaves me,

your luving uncle John.

This was a great read. Would recommend.

Didn't he also write the Star Wars theme?

Perducci: So, let's follow the logic:
- Jack the Ripper used a surgeon's knife
- this man was a surgeon
- he had a surgeon's knife
- therefore, he was Jack the Ripper

Makes sense to me.

Yea - hardly gripping research.

Perducci: So, let's follow the logic:
- Jack the Ripper used a surgeon's knife
- this man was a surgeon
- he had a surgeon's knife
- therefore, he was Jack the Ripper

Exactly, this is beyond thin. Somebody just wants attention for their book.

Perducci: "A pathologist at the time said the ripper had used the same six-inch knife in all the murders.
"He said it would have been at least six inches long, very sharp, pointed at the top and about an inch in width - a surgeon's knife.
"I am convinced that this is the knife used by Sir John Williams to murder those women."

So, let's follow the logic:
- Jack the Ripper used a surgeon's knife
- this man was a surgeon
- he had a surgeon's knife
- therefore, he was Jack the Ripper

Makes sense to me.

Better was:
Chillingly, he was known to his family as 'Uncle Jack'.

Really? An guy named John, being known as Uncle Jack to various relatives? Say it ain't so.

Let's rile up the Ripperologists, shall we?

His great-great-great-great uncle was Aaron Kosminski?

No? Then he's making it up.

Poppycock.

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Bag it and tag it.

Reba!

but what fun is serial killing if you don't have a hole in your basement to stick your victims down and make them put the lotion on its skin?

tenton: Perducci: "A pathologist at the time said the ripper had used the same six-inch knife in all the murders.
"He said it would have been at least six inches long, very sharp, pointed at the top and about an inch in width - a surgeon's knife.
"I am convinced that this is the knife used by Sir John Williams to murder those women."

So, let's follow the logic:
- Jack the Ripper used a surgeon's knife
- this man was a surgeon
- he had a surgeon's knife
- therefore, he was Jack the Ripper

Makes sense to me.

Better was:
Chillingly, he was known to his family as 'Uncle Jack'.

Really? An guy named John, being known as Uncle Jack to various relatives? Say it ain't so.

^ This. Lol. So much fail in this article and (I'm sure) the book.

Cool. I recently found out I'm related to Captain Henry Morgan. Arrrrrrr.

Can't recall the name, but wasn't there a fella that lived in whitechapel during the time of the murders, who moved to new York and killed in a similar fashion? /have a newspaper from the last of the rippers victims. (Kelley)

Well, I for one, am convinced.

Oldiron_79: but what fun is serial killing if you don't have a hole in your basement to stick your victims down and make them put the lotion on its skin?

Jack the Ripper predated the formalization of serial killing and was not quite up to today's standards. He was putting holes in the victims while in his basement, rather than putting victims in holes in his basement. It is only through incremental learning from generation to generation that we get the sort of predictable and normalized serial killing methodologies we all expect and admire today.

Truly, we stand on the shoulders of giants.

Jack the Ripper did WTC.

Want some grapes?

Im walking down the street late at night Jack The Ripper

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BolloxReader: Oldiron_79: but what fun is serial killing if you don't have a hole in your basement to stick your victims down and make them put the lotion on its skin?

Jack the Ripper predated the formalization of serial killing and was not quite up to today's standards. He was putting holes in the victims while in his basement, rather than putting victims in holes in his basement. It is only through incremental learning from generation to generation that we get the sort of predictable and normalized serial killing methodologies we all expect and admire today.

Truly, we stand on the shoulders of giants.

Sounds like I'm not the only one with a basement hole

You're a naughty one Saucy Jack
You're a haughty one Saucy Jack
When the streetlamp gaslight flickers and fails
Then you see the last light glinting off the entrails

Oh naughty naughty naughty

You're a sneaky one Saucy Jack
You're a cheeky one Saucy Jack
First the whore says guv'nor fancy a squeeze?
Next you will be shov'in her down the hole to Hades

Oh naughty naughty naughty

The scourge of London Town
(The scourge of London Town)
There'll be no rest 'til
You are a guest of The Crown

Naughty naughty naughty

You're a ghoulish one Saucy Jack
Not a foolish one Saucy Jack
Though the peelers track you early and late
Slipping out the back you counter with a checkmate

Oh naughty naughty naughty
Naughty naughty naughty

Hm hm hm hm hoo hoo ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

I thought Scotty was Jack the Ripper.

Ooba Tooba: Can't recall the name, but wasn't there a fella that lived in whitechapel during the time of the murders, who moved to new York and killed in a similar fashion? /have a newspaper from the last of the rippers victims. (Kelley)

Yeah, most people now believe that was the guy, after he moved to germany if I remember correctly and the same kinds of killings happened there but he ended up being tried and imprisoned/hung there.

Crazy british trying to take credit for american know how!

Jack the Ripper? I bet it was aliens.

What does Johnny Depp think?

machoprogrammer: Jack the Ripper? I bet it was aliens.



Agrees.

/hot like a jovian sunspot.

ChiliBoots: Perducci: "A pathologist at the time said the ripper had used the same six-inch knife in all the murders.
"He said it would have been at least six inches long, very sharp, pointed at the top and about an inch in width - a surgeon's knife.

What the hell kind of surgery were they doing back then that needed a six inch knife?

Makin' dick'oles.

"My, you are a big fellow, aren't you?"

This is exactly why I record a detailed account of all of my killings in a secret file that is to be released to the public upon my death. I think everyone deserves some closure. Selfish serial killers that want to leave their identity a mystery forever really piss me off.