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Originally posted by Fernglas
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Hi again!
I have to disagree on the pointlessness, on the contrary I find our discussion fruitful.
It allows us to hone our theories better and that is great!
In your case for example you see the possibility that Sequeira and Bond talked rubbish for whatever reason, because the Ripper simply was not a random guy. In my case I might have partly too much counted on modern medical knowledge and procedures.
While I still find it more likely that the Ripper was a person who had learned his skills mostly on the medical track, after Klosowski, who is my prime suspect one, the other suspect I find highly likely to be the Ripper, my prime suspect two, is the butcher/slaughterer(!) Robert Sagar had a special interest in. Sagar had some solid medical knowledge himself and was regarded as a very talented investigator.
I am quite certain one of those two was the Ripper, since they are the only ones who fit several important criteria about Jack, had the needed medical/anatomical knowledge to be the Ripper and the series of "Ripperlike" murders ended forever when both (in the same timeframe) went away. Klosowski moved to America for a short time and Sagarīs suspect came into an asylum.
I have to disagree on the pointlessness, on the contrary I find our discussion fruitful.
It allows us to hone our theories better and that is great! In your case for example you see the possibility that Sequeira and Bond talked rubbish for whatever reason, because the Ripper simply was not a random guy. In my case I might have partly too much counted on modern medical knowledge and procedures.While I still find it more likely that the Ripper was a person who had learned his skills mostly on the medical track, after Klosowski, who is my prime suspect one, the other suspect I find highly likely to be the Ripper, my prime suspect two, is the butcher/slaughterer(!) Robert Sagar had a special interest in. Sagar had some solid medical knowledge himself and was regarded as a very talented investigator.
I am quite certain one of those two was the Ripper, since they are the only ones who fit several important criteria about Jack, had the needed medical/anatomical knowledge to be the Ripper and the series of "Ripperlike" murders ended forever when both (in the same timeframe) went away. Klosowski moved to America for a short time and Sagarīs suspect came into an asylum.
I have no problem with the fact that we disagree, and the word "pointless" was used because we have such clear ideas of our own, and fresh information is extremely unlikely, so we are not expecting to change our minds.
I think that Sequiera was simply not sufficiently experienced for the value of his views to be compared with those of Brown and Phillips. Bond is a somewhat confusing character. Having been involved for the first time in the Ripper series with only the last in the canon, he expressed a view applying to all five, without having been present at the earlier four post mortems, and contadicted two very experienced police surgeons who had probably evidenced rather more knife deaths than he had. Then, in the Mylett case, he seemed to have confirmed the view that she had been garrotted, and then changed to the idea that the mark on the throat had been caused by the pressure from her jacket collar. I would rather ignore his opinions altogether than use them as part of my ammunition in a debate!
I don't have a suspect - as Conan Doyle wrote, "insufficient data"! But there is nothing wrong with having a suspect, and researching his known record, as long as it is done diligently, and honestly, genuinely recognising both the plus points and the minus points, and not stressing the former but concealing the latter, as some have done.
That last comment is a general one, and isn't aimed at this thread in particular.
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