Most ridiculous suspect

[DVV]

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

[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.

[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.

[DVV]

Macnaghten is the most ridiculous, Barnardo the most boring.

[Lord Lucan]

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

[Stewart P Evans]

Or

Or -



...in 1889.

[Uncle Jack]

Virginia Woolf (she was 6!)

Jack the Ape

Queen Victoria

Kosminski......

[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.

[The Good Michael]

Fenians. That is absolutely silly.

[Sox]

Prince Albert, by a mile.

[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

[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!

[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.

[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??

[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