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  • Gruesome or what?

    Interesting but ghoulish story here:


  • #2
    Saw that this morning! Gruesome even by The Mail's standards!
    'Would you like to see my African curiosities?'

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    • #3
      Since when is 55 considered elderly?
      This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

      Stan Reid

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Bob Hinton View Post
        Interesting but ghoulish story here:

        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ha-Thomas.html
        Yes it is gruesome though I am a bit surprised that people on a Jack the Ripper site would find the story overly gruesome. Still, it's a very interesting story and it is amazing that the murder victim's skull was found after all these years, and in the back garden of a house belonging to Sir David Attenborough no less.

        Chris
        Christopher T. George
        Organizer, RipperCon #JacktheRipper-#True Crime Conference
        just held in Baltimore, April 7-8, 2018.
        For information about RipperCon, go to http://rippercon.com/
        RipperCon 2018 talks can now be heard at http://www.casebook.org/podcast/

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        • #5
          Originally posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
          Yes it is gruesome though I am a bit surprised that people on a Jack the Ripper site would find the story overly gruesome. Still, it's a very interesting story and it is amazing that the murder victim's skull was found after all these years, and in the back garden of a house belonging to Sir David Attenborough no less.

          Chris
          I think it was the bit about boiling down the body for eatables that tipped the scales here!

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          • #6
            On the positive side, the "dripping" was probably tasty and nourishing and more than the local kids usually got.

            Phil

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            • #7
              Lard buttys!!!

              Originally posted by Phil H View Post
              On the positive side, the "dripping" was probably tasty and nourishing and more than the local kids usually got.

              Phil
              Yes indeed, I wonder if they thought "it was nise"???
              I'll get my coat...

              Best wishes,
              Zodiac.
              And thus I clothe my naked villainy
              With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
              And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

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              • #8
                Really?

                Originally posted by Zodiac View Post
                Yes indeed, I wonder if they thought "it was nise"???
                I'll get my coat...

                Best wishes,
                Zodiac.
                Actually Zodiac raises an excellent point here. Presumably at the time of the Ripper murders this case was still being talked about for the cannibalism aspect if nothing else. I wonder if the author of the letter put in that bit just to make it even more horrifying?

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                • #9
                  Thanks for the link, Bob.

                  The Old Bailey transcript of the 1879 trial makes for heavy reading but towards the end who should pop up but Thomas Bond giving a fascinating analysis of the remains.

                  allisvanityandvexationofspirit

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