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Much has been made of patterns formed by connecting the dots on a map representing the murder sites.
For proponents of only four victims, this is usually a cross. You can find this easily enough, but it depends on how you connect them. 4 points will make a cross, but also a square, rectangle, x, etc.
Proponents of five victims mention a pentagram, an M, the Ichthys symbol, etc.
Five points gives you a star, but a pentagram is a special star, which I don't see. The M is there, for Maybrick or Masons, but it could be reversed as a W, for Whitechapel, whore, women, and so on, ad infinitum. The explanation for the Ichthys symbol makes me ill, as it depends on a point not in the right place so they move it slightly.
For others using more victims gives other emblems. The author of The Bell Tower, using JtR in San Francisco committing the bell tower murders, the symbol is a specialized cross with two bars, a long and a short one over the upright. There is a rumor, which means I cannot remember where I read it, that with more victims you can draw a masonic arc and compass.
Frankly, I think the whole idea of a symbol formed deliberately by JtR with murder scenes is highly perfumed bs. The Ripper crimes were "crimes of opportunity". How could JtR made certain a victim was at a particular spot? I mean check Mitre Square. Eddows was in jail sleeping off a drunk, and when released walked through the square area and met history. If we believe the C5, the Ripper was fleeing the crime scene of Elizabeth Stride, so he ran to Mitre Square because he needed a victim there? Preposterous!
How do we choose points to draw from in what order? It is like constellations. The Greeks and Romans must have been very drunk to imagine that certain stars formed the fantastic shapes they claimed! Even the Big Dipper and the Southern Cross depend on how you connect the dots.
Any thoughts from anyone on these?
For proponents of only four victims, this is usually a cross. You can find this easily enough, but it depends on how you connect them. 4 points will make a cross, but also a square, rectangle, x, etc.
Proponents of five victims mention a pentagram, an M, the Ichthys symbol, etc.
Five points gives you a star, but a pentagram is a special star, which I don't see. The M is there, for Maybrick or Masons, but it could be reversed as a W, for Whitechapel, whore, women, and so on, ad infinitum. The explanation for the Ichthys symbol makes me ill, as it depends on a point not in the right place so they move it slightly.
For others using more victims gives other emblems. The author of The Bell Tower, using JtR in San Francisco committing the bell tower murders, the symbol is a specialized cross with two bars, a long and a short one over the upright. There is a rumor, which means I cannot remember where I read it, that with more victims you can draw a masonic arc and compass.
Frankly, I think the whole idea of a symbol formed deliberately by JtR with murder scenes is highly perfumed bs. The Ripper crimes were "crimes of opportunity". How could JtR made certain a victim was at a particular spot? I mean check Mitre Square. Eddows was in jail sleeping off a drunk, and when released walked through the square area and met history. If we believe the C5, the Ripper was fleeing the crime scene of Elizabeth Stride, so he ran to Mitre Square because he needed a victim there? Preposterous!
How do we choose points to draw from in what order? It is like constellations. The Greeks and Romans must have been very drunk to imagine that certain stars formed the fantastic shapes they claimed! Even the Big Dipper and the Southern Cross depend on how you connect the dots.
Any thoughts from anyone on these?
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