The kidney removal of Catherine Eddowes.

[Patrick Differ]

My point is it seems unlikely that the Doctors would not be aware of any shenanigans by mortuary assistants since the result is tampering with evidence in an investigation. It would also put their own reputations at risk. I suppose it could happen in the case of Eddowes since her body was not examined for close to 12 hours after her death. These victims were not the same however as those poor who died and required autopsy because the family requested it. Most poor were just buried without any post mortem at all. The mortuary assistants would have known that these were Ripper victims so the probability of extraction by them in my estimation would be very low. Reids claim, for the time in which he lived, is not unexpected.

[Doctored Whatsit]

Thank you for this. If it's true that the killer didn't remove any organs, the 'From Hell' letter/kidney has to be a hoax? Apologies if you've been through this before.

A very important point. At no time, as far as I am aware, did the police say that the alleged Eddowes' kidney could not have been hers because no organs were ever removed.