Patricia Cornwell - Stalking the Ripper (1/6)

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A BBC Omnibus special (shown in 2002) where author Patricia Cornwell shows her research etc into the identity of Jack The Ripper which resulted in the book Portrait of A Killer (Jack The Ripper - Case Closed).

I think you discover more about Patricia Cornwell in this programme than you do about Jack The Ripper or Walter Sickert, the man she believes to be the killer (not sure i'm convinced).

It's entertaining for all that though.

Apologies for any breaks in programme, the software used is not the best.

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[MrLimsky83]

I am not entirely convinced of her theory mainly because most of her "evidence" hinges of certain assumptions like he disguised his handwriting and wrote all of the letters or he had an abnormal sexual organ which made him hate women cause he couldn't have sex with them or that he uses the same paper so the letters were his etc. there is really no clear and irrefutable proof of her hypothesis. She is a forensic investigator but in this case there is a lack of substantial forensic evidence .

[langsense]

@MrLimsky83

I do not believe she is correct either but most of the forensic work from the book has been left out of the programme.

[volpe3fuego]

Why do we have to know about how much money this "writer" made and how much more privileged she is than the "average" person? Don't "average" people dream to have more? She's not very bright and annoying. Time to watch another JtR documentary cuz this one sucks. No offense to the video poster though.

[langsense]

@popazz1

I think her early books show that she can write about forensics, she's worked with them, she researches everything. However, I think she got trpped into making the stories more and more fantastical.. then the conspiracy or paranoia took over.

I like Scarpetta, so I hopes she writes another and does the character justice. She was not out when she started this series so I do not percieve her as a gay author, as in she doesn't write lesbian fiction.

[lavenderscentable]

this is very interesting

[thebigfella221]

@graciemaemarie11 you completed the sherloch game, otherwise you would not be mentioning mr jacob levy of aldgate

[martynhanson]

In fact the first person to 'finger' Sickert' was Stephen Knight in his book of 1976 The Final Solution, but he argued that the painter was one of three killers. Some people say his Royal conspiracy is stupid but these are the same people who find a lone kiler to be plausible.

[langsense]

@FromTheHeart99

It actually cost PC about 6 million dollars of her own money to do the research. So I don't think profit was her motive.

[circlesky73]

@volpe3fuego You're taking her comments WAY out of context.

[baraxor]

@ritchloui

Technically, Vlad and Ivan weren't "serial killers" by the commonly-held definition: one who commits unlawful private murder for purely personal gratification (as opposed to rulers "lawfully" killing "enemies of the state").

While others in the post-Renaissance era might fit the definiton better, Jack's non-identification and the particular gruesomeness of his final murder make him the earliest tabloid-type killer whose infamy in the public mind continues to this day.

[ritchloui]

The world's 'first' serial killer? Oh come on. What about Vlad the Impaler or Ivan the Terrible or Mohammed?

[graciemaemarie11]

@nobbilc close, ever heard of mr jacob levy?