Top Jack the Ripper Suspects

[eighty-eighter]

Some say Long Liz was killed by her ex; a character by the name of Kidney, with a name like that he should have been the Ripper!

[pinkmoon]

Some say Long Liz was killed by her ex; a character by the name of Kidney, with a name like that he should have been the Ripper!

For God's sake keep quite someone will hear and write a book about Mr kidney and claim case closed I don't think any off us could take another case closed book.

[eighty-eighter]

For God's sake keep quite someone will hear and write a book about Mr kidney and claim case closed I don't think any off us could take another case closed book.

They could say they had "inside" info on a Kidney.....

[Major Kong]

Suspects

My list goes as follows:

James Kelly(tops my list as he killed his wife with a knife to the throat, escaped Broadmoor in Jan. 1888, then disappeared till he turned himself in 1927)

After that in no particular order:
Bury
Druitt
Kosminski

[Scott Nelson]

Sensible.

He said captain.

I said what you want

[barnflatwyngarde]

BS man is seen attacking stride. He's got to be suspect number 1 because it really looks like a ripper attack down played by sxhwartz

Mrs Cox described the "blotchy faced" man seen entering Millers Court with Kelly as "a short stout man".

Surely he must be taken seriously.

[Pcdunn]

Very interesting question.

I will vote for Druitt, as he was one of the first suspects I ever read about, and I hear there are new details now available on him.
I think years ago some law enforcement experts settled on Aaron Kosminski (which is why I was a bit disappointed that the "shawl" solution supposedly linked to him, as it seemed almost expected). Still, he is a good choice for my suspect list.
Finally, I would choose an unknown local, whose traits might be Jewish or Gentile, working man or unemployed, sane or insane-- that leaves us a lot of room for speculation.

I've seen the TV show on James Kelly being the Ripper who escaped to America, and it was interesting. My main trouble with this theory is that it is a self-confession from a fellow with a history of mental illness.

Wasn't there another TV documentary about the Ripper being an European sailor who went back and forth across the Atlantic? Whatever happened to this idea?