UK UK - Jack the Ripper, London 1888, East End, in and around Whitechapel District UNSOLVED

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Jack the Ripper by Screaming Lord Sutch

[video=youtube;fknUlQ3mlwM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fknUlQ3mlwM[/video]

 

[wfgodot]

[video=youtube;ExsrSCeplXk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExsrSCeplXk[/video]

 

[STANDREID]

The 125 anniversary of the murder of Phoebe Hoog and her baby by Mary Pearcey is Saturday. It's the only 1890 murder that I think sometimes gets mentioned in the Ripper Case; mainly because Pearcey is often brought up in the Jill the Ripper theory.

 

[wfgodot]

W.H. Bury folderol, from Malvern Gazette:

Did Jack the Ripper have Worcestershire connections?

 

[wfgodot]

Telegraph:

Jack the Ripper: 'Vile' Halloween event offers selfies with 'body' of murdered woman
The Jack the Ripper museum, which has been billed as a 'celebration of women', has caused anger

 

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Telegraph:

Jack the Ripper: 'Vile' Halloween event offers selfies with 'body' of murdered woman
The Jack the Ripper museum, which has been billed as a 'celebration of women', has caused anger

Sanctimonious cry babies - great free advertising though

 

[wfgodot]

CBS Sunday Morning, with 7-minute video:

The undying fascination over Jack the Ripper

 

[wfgodot]

Keep the line moving.

Lancashire Evening Post:

Was Preston’s famous poet the real Jack the Ripper?

 

[mrsward]

Thompson the real Jack the Ripper? Teacher develops new theory that 19th Century writer with surgical experience and opium addict Read more...


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ce-opium-addiction-butchered-prostitutes.html

 

[Trident]

Well, bring it on. Thanks to Stan & wfgodot I've been all over the casebook site & the Maybrick diary & watch consideration. I do have to cook later.

Bring it on I will, simply because I don't want to die without giving this man a good toss.

Who was born in London, had an apparent compulsion about prostitutes, castrated himself because of his compulsion, went against orders in the Civil War and killed someone who was wanted alive, and was mad as a hatter. The same man who went back to London around the time of the Ripper murders, that's who.

Any takers?

 

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Ah, good ole Boston Corbett

 

[Trident]

Ah, good ole Boston Corbett

Actually, I believe Corbett has as much to recommend him for consideration as many of the people posited in recent books.

 

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Actually, I believe Corbett has as much to recommend him for consideration as many of the people posited in recent books.

No arguments on that.

 

[wfgodot]

Reading a bit at a time -- good enough to savor, and then some -- I've finally come to the first detailed look at Michael Maybrick, Bruce ('Withnail and I') Robinson's candidate in 'They All Love Jack.' Whatever turns out to be the case this is a must-read if only for its first 322 pages (500+ more to go!), a welcome rip through Ripperology, "take no prisoners" funny, and blessed by Robinson's immaculate, well-reasoned research.

 

[wfgodot]

Active omnibus Ripper thread:

Jack the Ripper ∙ London 1888, East End, in and around Whitechapel District UNSOLVED

 

[wfgodot]

Telegraph; masonic involvement all over the place in 19th c. Britain:

Was Titanic inquiry scuppered by the Freemasons?

 

[wfgodot]

Spectator:

Jack the Ripper unmasked again
Bruce Robinson argues passionately (and a little madly) for his new
candidate for the Ripper: a popular musician called Michael Maybrick

 

[wfgodot]

East London Advertiser:

Women hold vigil outside Jack the Ripper museum for victims of the Whitechapel Murders

 

[wfgodot]

Ah, good ole Boston Corbett

Londoner Corbett's a just-fine candidate by me, thanks, as he -- I think -- is the only proposed Ripper with a direct connection to my own Sunflower State.

Extreme longshot though. Which only of course makes his candidacy more interesting!

 

[STANDREID]

My top ten most likely Ripper victims in order of likelyhood:

1-Annie Chapman
2-Catherine Eddowes
3-Polly Nichols
4-Mary Kelly
5-Elizabeth Stride
6-Emma Smith
7-Alice McKenzie
8-Martha Tabram
9-Annie Millwood
10-Frances Coles