Most ridiculous suspect

[Sam Flynn]

1. A piece of putty

2. A cheese-mechanic from Dunbar

3. A small pink pussycat

4. Two frogs, one called "Kipper" and the other one not


... oh, sorry, that was from the Monty Python "Election Night Special" sketch

[Phil Carter]

1. A piece of putty

2. A cheese-mechanic from Dunbar

3. A small pink pussycat

4. Two frogs, one called "Kipper" and the other one not


... oh, sorry, that was from the Monty Python "Election Night Special" sketch

I bow to your greater insight in lunatic humour...

but I must say that I hoped that Edmund Blackadder's last series (Goes Forth) would have centered around JTR and not WW1.. Lord knows what the writers could have come up with there. Would have been hilarious!

best wishes

Phil

[babybird67]

i think some of you have been talking to Ally...

she actually stole the ground-breaking research Hatchett and myself did...we are planning a book and a documentary and everything...

all i will say is, don't think certain high-born suspects are as ridiculous as they first may seem...

all the men seen with the victims shortly before their deaths were wearing hats, right?

Well, what would that hat be for...covering a jewelled sparkly thing perhaps? Same with the suspicious bags...crowns always come with sceptres don't they and she'd have to put that down somewhere while she did the deeds.

Of course the most vital clue has always been misinterpreted...that grafitti...until now, nobody realised it actually said

"[t]her [ma]Juwes[ty] is not the one that shall be blamed for nothing"

Obvious really why that had to come down pretty sharpish!

Anyway, we are already going to have to share our 'royalties' with Ally, so you lot better keep off our highly sensitive theory, right?

Don't worry we will still come back and post here when we are famous!

[kensei]

King Leopold of Belgium seems pretty unlikely.

I also read a fictional short story once that suggested it was a vampire.

[Mike Covell]

Mike Holgate published The Celebrity Suspects last year which is full of amusing suspects. My fave would have to be the escaped monkey though!

[Mascara & Paranoia]

Gull, Sickert, Maybrick, all the suspects who have been proven to have been elsewhere at the time of the murders, like Ostrog et cetera. The list is way too long; I think there's only a small handful of interesting 'suspects' amongst the boring and stupid lot we that have to choose from.

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Mascara and Paranoia!

Jack the Ripper was most likely so common looking and had such a common profession, that obviously we'll never catch him!

All the best
Jukka

[kensei]

When I went on Phil Hutchinson's Ripper tour last year he humorously said that the only noteworthy British personality not so far named as a Ripper suspect was Florence Nightengale, and that it probably wouldn't be long before someone did name her (what with the medical knowledge and all).

But in all seriousness, I think that some of the main suspects are ridiculous. Druitt became a suspect only because his family suspected him, and I've never heard a clear explanation as to why. If he'd had any idea what would follow after he jumped into the river he just might have changed his mind. Ostrog was a career thief who tried to act dangerous but never physically hurt anyone in his life. Kosminsky- ok, he's a little more plausible but seems to have been much too mentally unbalanced to have presented himself to the victims in a guise charming enough to be trusted.

My current position is that the Ripper was probably someone never named, but if he was, more study should be done on James Kelly and William Bury. That's my two cents worth.

[KatBradshaw]

Little Big Knife?

I did hear once that people at the time looked for Native Americans for the crime. That seems pretty ridiculous to me. When I was teaching about this to the kids I pointed out that the Ripper really had to be someone that people wouldn't notice or remark on. Therefore people dressed in certain ways or looking very diffferent to the usual inhabitants of the East End would have stood out like sore thumbs and been noteworthy.

[Steve S]

Charles Gordon.....Not really killed by the Dervishes,but driven mad by his escape through the searing sun of the Sudanese desert....rescued,and returned to England,commited to an asylum under an assumed name with the connivence of his Army friend Warren............Just made that up,but I've heard more far-fetched............
Steve

[ghoulstonstreet]

I did hear once that people at the time looked for Native Americans for the crime. That seems pretty ridiculous to me. When I was teaching about this to the kids I pointed out that the Ripper really had to be someone that people wouldn't notice or remark on. Therefore people dressed in certain ways or looking very diffferent to the usual inhabitants of the East End would have stood out like sore thumbs and been noteworthy.

The Native American thing came up because Wild Bill Cody's Wild West Show was playing London at the time of the killings. Well, did somebody forget somebody? What about BILL CODY??

[ghoulstonstreet]

Personal Fave

The Native American thing came up because Wild Bill Cody's Wild West Show was playing London at the time of the killings. Well, did somebody forget somebody? What about BILL CODY??

My personal fave tho is perhaps one of the dudes who were running Broadmoor.

[Mike Covell]

Buffalo Bill came to Hull once and was kicked out of the Royal Station Hotel because he refused to remove his skins and his weapons! He stayed at the Manchester Arms instead!

Coincidently, Queen Victoria, Prince Eddy, Prince Albert Victor, and Frederick Bailey Deeming had all been guests in the Royal Station Hotel over the years! I guess it was something they were putting in the water!

[The Red Dahlia]

A time travelling Michael Jackson (bless him RIP ) yeah seriously there's a website dedicated to this theory lol :} :}
Red Dahlia x

[Sox]

Prince Albert, by a mile.