Jack the Ripper I.D.at last? |
Posted: May 7, 2018 |
Jack the Ripper has remained for the best part a mystery over the past 129 years. That is not to say that numerous, (too numerous to calculate) attempts have been made in identifying this most famous serial killer haven't been made. Practically every year a new book and a new theory emerges and is poured over by Ripper enthusiasts in hope that this is the theory that will finally nail him. However, after reading 5 or 6 theories you come to realise that every book is slightly different in their view of how many victims, what the possible motive could be and whether he had medical knowledge? After being a Jack the Ripper guide for 24+ years (taking people around the remaining murder sites) I have concluded, that the most rational explanation for Jack never really being identified lies in the 1988 F.B.I. personality profile of this murderer. They point out that he was probably a local man, committed the crimes in an area where he was totally familiar with the streets, close to home. This is true of many serial killers as they feel more secure in familiar places where they know various routes of escape when police or public are on their tail. They also believe that he could have held down a job during the week because all these murders took place at the weekend Friday, Saturday, Sunday. They think that his work would have been "a menial job with little or no interaction with the public". That he was bought up by "a dominant female figure who drank heavily and physically and possibly sexually abused him as a child." I would say that this describes a local prostitute, he may have been the product of a liaison with a client therefore that his mother had little empathy or love for him. Leaving him "mentally disturbed and sexually inadequate as a man desiring power, control and domination over women". Also lacking "decent male role models as a child". He engaged in sexually motivated attacks although never had sex with his victims, the killing and mutilation would have produced his enjoyment. That he hunted sometimes nightly and would have been walking the streets at all hours. This today makes us think that he would have stood out, but the streets were busy until probably after 3.30 and even then, as the area was full of slaughterhouses which operated overnight and by four or five in the morning butcher's shops would be taking delivery of fresh meat. So even seeing someone with a bloodstained apron or clothing was not unusual. Furthermore this man must have had a knowledge of anatomy as when he murdered Catherine Eddowes in Mitre Square (the second victim on the night of the double event) he murdered her, severely mutilated her face, cut off her right earlobe, disembowelled her leaving her intestines draped over her shoulder, cut out her womb and removed her left kidney from the FRONT, in the DARK as the only two gas-lamps in Mitre Square was one in the corner diagonally opposite 20-25 yards away and one of the corner of Church Passage about 10 yards away, considering that gas-lamps gave out little light, this says that he must have had a knowledge of anatomy to locate and cut out this kidney. Right opposite Aldgate Station (where I begin my tour) was Butchers Row, a whole row of butcher's shops stretching from 43 to 62 Aldgate High St and in his memoires City of London Police Inspector Robert Sagar Said that "We had good reason to suspect a man who worked in Butcher's Row, we watched him carefully, there was no doubt that this man was insane and after a time his friends thought it advisable to have him removed to a private asylum. After he was removed there were NO MORE Ripper atrocities". A butcher would have a decent knowledge of human anatomy as they cut up pigs and they are almost identical to humans precisely why pigs valves are used for human transplants today. Any butcher working here would also probably be a local who knew the area well. There was also a slaughterhouse behind the butcher's shops for the same reasons he could have been a slaughter-man, plus the fact that I had a doctor specializing in mental health on my tour once who told me "there are more mental health issues in this profession than any other". I see no reason to disbelieve him!
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