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At the 2011 International Association for Identification conference, held in August in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Robert Milne presented the research that has led him to believe that George Chapman was Jack-the-Ripper.
Milne retired from the Metropolitan Police in 2008, after forty years service with the Forensic Services Directorate, Metropolitan Police, Scotland Yard. The holder of the Diploma in Crime Scene Examination, Kings College, London University, he is a member of the Forensic Science Society and a Full Associate Member of the International Academy of Investigative Psychologists. The results of in-depth research carried out by someone of his calibre and presented to a major international conference deserves serious attention.
PRESS REPORT SEPT 2011
Milne retired from the Metropolitan Police in 2008, after forty years service with the Forensic Services Directorate, Metropolitan Police, Scotland Yard. The holder of the Diploma in Crime Scene Examination, Kings College, London University, he is a member of the Forensic Science Society and a Full Associate Member of the International Academy of Investigative Psychologists. The results of in-depth research carried out by someone of his calibre and presented to a major international conference deserves serious attention.
PRESS REPORT SEPT 2011
A Polish immigrant who was a trained surgeon might be Britain’s most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper, says a former manager of forensic intelligence for Scotland Yard.
Robert Milne, who retired from the London police force in 2008, believes that Jack the Ripper was actually Severin Klosowski who went by the name of George Chapman.
Over the years, scores of theories have developed over the identity of Jack the Ripper, including a Canadian doctor, Francis Tumblety, who visited the area in the 1880s, Prince Albert Victor — the Duke of Clarence — and even the father of Winston Churchill.
The most recent candidate was a German merchant seaman who went by the name Carl Feigenbaum, named by Ripper expert Trevor Marriot, a former British homicide detective earlier this month.
Feigenbaum’s real name was Anton Zahn, Marriott told the Star in a phone interview.
Marriott describes him as possibly the “first transatlantic serial killer.”
He pins much of his argument on statements from Feigenbaum’s American lawyer as well as shipping documents that put him in Whitechapel at the time of the crimes.
But Milne vehemently disagrees with Marriott.
After Milne retired, he started looking at the Jack the Ripper case. Using geographical profiling software, he found that everything points to what Milne calls a “neighbourhood marauder not a trans-European worker such as a sailor.”
The culprit was someone who worked and lived in Whitechapel — and that someone is George Chapman, Milne said in a telephone interview with the Star.
“All of the victims in 1888 lived within 50 to 75 yards of each other,” he said. And they all lived in Whitechapel not far from where Chapman not only lived, but worked as a barber.
He even called himself Chapman after one of the victims, Anne Chapman, Milne speculates
Chapman wasn’t considered a suspect until 1902, said Milne who presented his research at the International Association for Identification Conference in Milwaukee, Wis. in August.
Milne obtained data on where Chapman lived and worked from transcripts of witness evidence from his serial murder trail at the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court at the time. “When you look at this guy from the practical point of the geographical profiling, he was in the thick of it,” he said.
Eleven women were killed in Britain in 1887. The following year when the Ripper surfaced, 17 women were murdered — 45 per cent of them killed within half a mile of Whitechapel High Street.
Chapman’s estranged wife testified at his trial that when he lived in Whitechapel he would go out carrying a small bag, not coming home until 4:30 a.m., Milne said.
Robert Milne, who retired from the London police force in 2008, believes that Jack the Ripper was actually Severin Klosowski who went by the name of George Chapman.
Over the years, scores of theories have developed over the identity of Jack the Ripper, including a Canadian doctor, Francis Tumblety, who visited the area in the 1880s, Prince Albert Victor — the Duke of Clarence — and even the father of Winston Churchill.
The most recent candidate was a German merchant seaman who went by the name Carl Feigenbaum, named by Ripper expert Trevor Marriot, a former British homicide detective earlier this month.
Feigenbaum’s real name was Anton Zahn, Marriott told the Star in a phone interview.
Marriott describes him as possibly the “first transatlantic serial killer.”
He pins much of his argument on statements from Feigenbaum’s American lawyer as well as shipping documents that put him in Whitechapel at the time of the crimes.
But Milne vehemently disagrees with Marriott.
After Milne retired, he started looking at the Jack the Ripper case. Using geographical profiling software, he found that everything points to what Milne calls a “neighbourhood marauder not a trans-European worker such as a sailor.”
The culprit was someone who worked and lived in Whitechapel — and that someone is George Chapman, Milne said in a telephone interview with the Star.
“All of the victims in 1888 lived within 50 to 75 yards of each other,” he said. And they all lived in Whitechapel not far from where Chapman not only lived, but worked as a barber.
He even called himself Chapman after one of the victims, Anne Chapman, Milne speculates
Chapman wasn’t considered a suspect until 1902, said Milne who presented his research at the International Association for Identification Conference in Milwaukee, Wis. in August.
Milne obtained data on where Chapman lived and worked from transcripts of witness evidence from his serial murder trail at the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court at the time. “When you look at this guy from the practical point of the geographical profiling, he was in the thick of it,” he said.
Eleven women were killed in Britain in 1887. The following year when the Ripper surfaced, 17 women were murdered — 45 per cent of them killed within half a mile of Whitechapel High Street.
Chapman’s estranged wife testified at his trial that when he lived in Whitechapel he would go out carrying a small bag, not coming home until 4:30 a.m., Milne said.
