Jack the Ripper finally identified
Discussion
Chlamydia said:
A man who lived in the same small area as the victims and was known to visit prostitutes has his DNA found on a piece of clothing? Surely all that is evidence of is that he 'visited' one at some point maybe months before, I can't imagine they regularly washed their clothes?
2/10 Go read it again.The scarf was way beyond her means, presumably left by the attacker. It was spattered with her blood and his semen.
grumbledoak said:
Chlamydia said:
A man who lived in the same small area as the victims and was known to visit prostitutes has his DNA found on a piece of clothing? Surely all that is evidence of is that he 'visited' one at some point maybe months before, I can't imagine they regularly washed their clothes?
2/10 Go read it again.The scarf was way beyond her means, presumably left by the attacker. It was spattered with her blood and his semen.
Hey I'm not saying it wasn't AK, out of all of the suspects over the years he's always stood out to me to be the most believable, but this doesn't even come close to proving he was the Ripper. The shawl hasn't been proved to be hers, it could have been at the site before she was killed there, his DNA may have been on her clothing already and transferred to it from her, it may have been on the shawl - he was known to be a prolific 'self abuser', (it's one of the reasons he was committed to an asylum), he could've had the shawl and dropped it there earlier. She may even have owned the shawl, found it or stolen it, had a bit of how's your father with AK earlier and then been killed by the Ripper. Or any of many other possible ways this could be explained.
An alternative is that he was her last client before she was killed. He used her shawl to clean himself off, she walks on to find her next client, and instead gets murdered, leaving the evidence of their encounter perfectly preserved on her shawl.
The articles blurs the lines between two different types of killer - the schizophrenic misogynist who commits extremely violent murders, and the intelligent killer who murders then cuts up the bodies and leaves clever clues for the police to find.
From the very basic stuff I read on psychology a good few years ago, a schizophrenic attack more likely to be frenzied, with no real logic behind it. I doubt a schizophrenic would go the lengths of cutting out body parts and then posting them to the police with dodgy letters calling them "Boss", let alone targetting women that the killer knew wouldn't really be missed by society.
I'm not saying that Jack the Ripper, whoever he was, wasn't mad. But I think it's a far more cold, clinical kind of madness than manic schizophrenia.
Not only that, but even this woman was killed by the Polish guy, it doesn't mean he killed the others. They're not even sure for certain how many were definitely killed by "The Ripper", 5 is the accepted number but there are other potential ones as well. Sadly prostitutes were easy targets because they were women, therefore would have found it difficult to fight back, and as prostitutes no one really cared about them. It was the gruesome nature of the attacks that shocked people, not the fact that prostitutes were being attacked.
The articles blurs the lines between two different types of killer - the schizophrenic misogynist who commits extremely violent murders, and the intelligent killer who murders then cuts up the bodies and leaves clever clues for the police to find.
From the very basic stuff I read on psychology a good few years ago, a schizophrenic attack more likely to be frenzied, with no real logic behind it. I doubt a schizophrenic would go the lengths of cutting out body parts and then posting them to the police with dodgy letters calling them "Boss", let alone targetting women that the killer knew wouldn't really be missed by society.
I'm not saying that Jack the Ripper, whoever he was, wasn't mad. But I think it's a far more cold, clinical kind of madness than manic schizophrenia.
Not only that, but even this woman was killed by the Polish guy, it doesn't mean he killed the others. They're not even sure for certain how many were definitely killed by "The Ripper", 5 is the accepted number but there are other potential ones as well. Sadly prostitutes were easy targets because they were women, therefore would have found it difficult to fight back, and as prostitutes no one really cared about them. It was the gruesome nature of the attacks that shocked people, not the fact that prostitutes were being attacked.
h Patricia Cornwell into touch. Randy Winkman said:
I thought Sherlock Holmes sorted all this out ages ago. In fact, I saw a film all about it once.
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