IN THE WORLD OF JACK THE RIPPER (History Channel, 2008) Part Two

As so many people have asked me to upload the full show, here's a documentary I took part in for the History Channel in 2008. It's not perfect, but one of the better ones.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Jack
• Ripper
• London
• Whitechapel
• Murder
• Murderer
• Serial
• Killer
• Killing
• Spitalfields
• Victorian
• 1888

[celticlofts]

The murder of Eddowes was the breakthrough in this case. The cops should had deduced that he didn't care about being caught and secondly he didn't live locally. The savagery of his attacks and his mental state would have driven his desire to kill more often had he lived locally. So what kept him away from women and Whitechapel? My guess he worked where women didn't work and where he was a away a lot of the time.. Our boy worked on a ship.

[GuildfordGhost]

@celticlofts That's your opinion, which is contrary (in part) to most historians. If you're an advocate of Marriott's CF tale, I can tell you the man knows little and states a great deal of proven nonsense as fact. His suspect was not even known to have been in England after the 1870s. I'm not dismissing your views as to his employ, but I'm saying you shouldn't be taken in by a loose cannon (if, indeed, that is the case).

[celticlofts]

@GuildfordGhost: My own opinion is just as valid as anyone elses at this stage of the game. We'll never know for sure who committed those murders and my guess is we'll never see anyone standing in a court of law accused of them either :-)

[GuildfordGhost]

@celticlofts With all due respect, opinions are only as valid as the sources which inform them.

[celticlofts]

"He killed twice in one month" No he killed three times in one month. Chapman on the 8th, Stride on the 30th and Eddows also on the 30th. All in September 1888.

[GuildfordGhost]

@celticlofts Indeed. Schoolboy error on their part, but they may have meant (and I'm sure they did, badly phrased) two DATES in September.

[PianoLove1968]

@GuildfordGhost What CF tale? Sounds interesting. I can tell you have read a lot on this case.

[GuildfordGhost]

@nickh1974 No. This is Lindsay's unique opinion and not one I've ever heard from anyone else in the field.

[nickh1974]

@GuildfordGhost

On the double event murders, Lindsay says that Jack made a conscious decision to cross the invicible boundary from the Met Police area to The City Police area to confuse his persuers. Would you agree that this suggests that Jack was indeed a cunning and therefore intelligent man as your average EastEnder would not have had the brains to think that way thus eliminating suspects such as Kosminksi etc. He must have been an outsider who knew the well.

BTW Lindsay is a sort! Agree?!