Most ridiculous suspect

[The Good Michael]

Fenians. That is absolutely silly.

[Hunter]

The cowboys in Bill's Wild West Show, George Hutchinson, Robert Mann, Seargent Thick, Seargent York ( just kidding- he was too young). Anyway, if you read Sherlock Holmes, it had to be professor Moriarity, no doubt in my mind.

[Uncle Jack]

Virginia Woolf (she was 6!)

Jack the Ape

Queen Victoria

Kosminski......

[Stewart P Evans]

Or

Or -



...in 1889.

[Lord Lucan]

The Elephant Man for certain. I don't think there are any suspects less plausable than he.

[DVV]

Macnaghten is the most ridiculous, Barnardo the most boring.

[headcoate]

Re-read your Poe carefully

I am quite sure that it wasn't the escaped monkey. The Rue Morgue murderer used a different MO and had been caught and was well locked up in 1888.

[kensei]

Yes, it does seem unlikely that if an escaped primate with a knife in hand was on the rampage that every one of its victims would be a prostitute.

[DVV]

Wasn't Mary found in the chimney ?
Sorry if I'm mistaken.

[Ben]

Hunter,

Some of your choices are clearly throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and don't remotely merit inclusion on a list of the most "ridiculous" suspects. I hope some of your entries were tongue in cheek.

[JTRSickert]

The cowboys in Bill's Wild West Show, George Hutchinson, Robert Mann, Seargent Thick, Seargent York ( just kidding- he was too young). Anyway, if you read Sherlock Holmes, it had to be professor Moriarity, no doubt in my mind.

Hunter,

I don't think George Hutchinson as a suspect is really ridiculous. There is a great deal about him and his story we do not know or are uncertain about. So, putting him as a suspect is not really ridiculous at all. However, I personally think he was not the Ripper.

I think Phil Hutchinson is a more credible suspect though. Hmmm, wonder if they are related?

[Hunter]

I'm sorry, I meant to say Phil Hutchinson- Now Cap'n Jack's suspect- at least might as well be. The other is not ridiculous . The response does answer a few questions though.

[Ben]

Thanks for clarifying, Hunter.

Sorry to snap!

All the best,
Ben

[protohistorian]

I am quite sure that it wasn't the escaped monkey. The Rue Morgue murderer used a different MO and had been caught and was well locked up in 1888.

Damn, I was betting on that monkey too! Dave

[JTRSickert]

Another ridiculous suspect:

Glenn Quagmire of "Family Guy."