3/5 Jack The Ripper Murders

Vic Reeves investigates the infamous murders, but can he track down the real Jack the Ripper ?

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• Jack
• the
• ripper
• serial
• killer
• victorian
• history
• whitechapel
• murder
• psychic
• detective
• ghosts
• spirits

[vamned]

@Bigwave2003 Really? Didn't know that :( guess my presentation 2 years ago wasn't that great :P. It's hard to seperate facts from fiction for something that happened so long ago. Wish we could solve it just to solve an other mystery.

[Bigwave2003]

@MysticAtt That connection to Freemasonry was dreamed up by Stephen Knight in his book "Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution". Take into account that Knight has a serious dislike of masons (his previous book attacked Freemasonry) and that "Juwes" is a word he coined, not common mason terminology for anything. Also, Knight's source for the whole story later recanted the whole royal conspiracy theory involving Dr. Gull (Johnny Depp movie & other films were based on it).

[Bigwave2003]

@stricken1977 But isn't the "evidence" a forgery? A fake diary. Michael Barrett, who forged the diary, confessed.

[me323]

@Bigwave2003 James Kelly was not Mary Kelly's boyfriend, Joe Barnett was. Even so there is not much evidence to link him with all the victims.

[PianoLove1968]

@schizoidboy yes that letter could well have been from the killer- should have ;let the graphologist look at it- the scrawly handwriting of that gives me the creeps.

[ScytheWing0120]

@TheSkunker My biggest problem with this is that that phrase could have been written at any time. More than likely, it's just graffiti that was scrawled onto a building. There's no way to prove that the killer wrote it or was Jewish. Considering how the Jewish community was blamed for a lot of different crimes... I doubt that the phrase has any relevance to the case.

[jessetrend19]

their were alot of people claiming to be jack the ripper....james maybrick claimed he was......but i always thought it was tumblety...he was a doctor and gave abortions...he knew how to cut, so i thought it was him..

[stricken1977]

i prefer to beleive it was james maybrick the evidence is indisputable

[DesQueJteVois]

James Maybrick and Frances Tumblety are the two highest rated suspects by the public...Odd how they don't include Maybrick in this..

[Macque77]

@HedebBast Hi, thanks for the reply. 1st, the ink tests although termed "inconclusive" were termed so because the ink contents were technically available in ink at the time, although not in the combination they were found, and the closest match was not commercially available. The ink would therefore need to be homemade. 2nd, the writing was not in Maybrick's hand. 3rd, Maybrick was known to be elsewhere during two of the murders. 4th, the writing had been edited.