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| william |
 Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:32 am Post subject: Jack the Ripper, solved...? |
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I just bought a book last night about Jack the Ripper. I haven't read it yet, but thumbing through, it appears the culprit is fingered to be a "Walter Sickert". Apparently this was deduced via modern forensic techniques.
Does anyone know anything about this?
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I'm always wary of books written by authors who collect royalties... 
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| I'm always wary of books written by authors who collect royalties... |
don't all authors ?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject: Jack the Ripper, solved...? |
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There was one written by a woman a few years back that named Sickert as the culprit. But one critic claimed Sickert had already been ruled out & didn't see how the author could've possibly uncovered any new evidence.
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| Sulabell83 |
| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:23 am Post subject: Jack the Ripper, Solved...? |
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Walter Sickert was an artist (painter) in london and has been implicated in the Ripper crimes since the 70's with the release of the famous "Royal Conspiracy" theory...
He became a suspect in his own right in the 90's when a woman named Joan Overton Fullers released "Sickert and the Ripper crimes", and then again more recently by Patricia Cornwell who is said to have found D.N.A evidence linking Sickert to at least one of the Ripper letters(She does not mention which one)...How true that is im not convinced as many of the letters if not all are not disproved a hoax and a few come from different wrighters, also because of the lack of order back then the letters were handled by so many varios people that original prints would probably have been lost among them (including D.N.A)...
I have other reasons for disbelieving this theory of the letter, but it all depends on how you personally profile jack (educated and wealthy or not)...
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| Sulabell83 |
| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:07 am Post subject: Jack the Ripper, Solved...? |
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Thair are about 30 people on record as being Suspectin the Ripper murders, one of my favorite is a one (Aaron) Kosminski...
Kosminski is one of the PRIME suspects in the veiw of many Ripperologysts, of coarse a few also discredit him aswell (as in all ripper theorys thair is always a for and against) but kosminski seems to have a few more for him...
..ARGUMENT AGAINST..
Apparently Kosminski (who was jewish) was placed in Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylem not long after the last official murder of Mary Jane Kelly, He is on asylem records as being a harmless docile lunatic who would only eat food from the gutters...
..ARGUMENT FOR...
If you really really dig about in the official case notes for the murders (which are available to all) then burried deep in thair Is a witness to the Elizibeth Stride murder, a Mr Israel Schwartz who gave descriptions of two suspect men he saw that night...
Apparently later on Schwartz confidently identified Kosminski as one of the men he had seen, in a police line up, but refused to testifiy against him as both Schwartz and Kosminski were jewish and Knowing his testimony would see Kosminski sent to the gallows didn't want the blood of a fellow jewish citizen on his hands...
Kosminski was relised in to his brothers custody and was under police surveilence 24/7 (no other murders were commited at this time) until he was placed in the lunatic Asylem...
Just after Kosminski was off the streets and in the Asylem the police compleatly reduced the police pressance on the streets back to almost original numbers...
Less than 3 monthes after the Kelly murder and a shorter time than the dry spell in the middle of the murders, why would they do this if they thought the Ripper was still out thair  ...
Strange yes....?
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