Laura Richards profile of Jack

[ghoulstonstreet]

I Agree

Yes, he may have had a wife, who knows for sure. I believe some criminal profiles of him say that he most likely didn't have a wife, but I think most should take this criminal profiling with a grain of salt. Laura's criminal profile of Jack makes sense to me. Obviously, if he acted like a lunatic in public and didn't appear normal, most prostitutes probably wouldn't service him. No matter how deranged Jack might have been, there are serial killers capable of having a separate life if you will with kids and a wife. It is clear to me that he was non-threatening to these ladies and he appeared as a normal guy. Not a raving lunatic foaming at the mouth. Jack to me was a normal looking guy who blended in well and obviously didn't bring any negative attention to himself. He revealed his true self when the women took him to the last place they would ever see. Jack the ripper to me is kinda like a Ted Bundy. No one would have suspected him of being a murderer. He appeared very normal.

Oh yes, I'm sure you're right. Now, over 100 years later, we now a lot more about the average serial killer personality and it's too bad that in those times LE expected to find a raving maniac holed up somewhere. Not at all the case. Both the US and the UK has seen quite a few examples since then of serial killings and serial killers. I am quite sure he was a person very much capable of self control.

[ghoulstonstreet]

Great Article! Thanks, Mike!

The sole reliance on trait-based models of profiling is fundamentally flawed. Criminal profil-ers do not seem to recognize that a consensus began to emerge in the psychological litera-ture some 40 years ago that it was a mistake to rely on traits as the primary explanation forbehavior.

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Thank you for this great little article about the flaws in Criminal Profiling. I totally agree. Here in the States a really good example is the case of Ted Kaszcinski, the Unabomber. The traits they were predicting were very off track from what he turned out to be. They didn't get a bead on him at all. BUT, when I say that I believe the Ripper was someone who was not a raving lunatic, and someone with an outwardly normal appearance and behavior, I base this on who serial killers have turned out to be AFTER THE FACT. That is, I'm looking at concluded cases of serial killing and apprehension. Time after time the killer is a cool, conniving, organized, coldblooded predator who can be charming, quiet, clean, good looking, employed and even married with kids. What could be more scary than that? And poor Abberline and the rest were really not looking for a regular guy.

[jonwilson]

Jack killed in a perfect time. He used that to his advantange. Ghoul, you are right on the money. There is nothing more scarier than a serial killer that leads a normal life and acts normal than strikes and reveals his true self at the last moment.

[corey123]

Serial killing

Is perhaps, in my mind, the most terrifying and facinating phenominon that happens in our world, it astounds the many and creates a reing of terror through-out the world. Its ironic how a single man or in some rare cases women can bring such widespread panic. How these indaviduals can singlehandedly take out victim after victim after victim. Many serial killers can be profiled and that and other methods Can catch them, but some arent. truly it depends on the killer.

[perrymason]

I believe that Normal Looking would imply that his behavior was Normal as well, certainly anyone with obvious mental disabilities would be easy to identify on the streets. They were informed on the recent asylum releases, they looked for "mad" medical students, they insinuate in some later documents that the killer was institutionalized.

What I think is missing from this kind of logic is that he showed considerable skill and knowledge at times with some of the field surgeries he performed. Thats not a man who is unable to control his emotions or motor skills. But it is one who would have the disposition to perform acts that many non-professionals would be unable to do, or unwilling to do. To cut flesh from a human cadaver or to hold bloody and slippery organs.

Emotionally flat, unaffected by disturbing gory visions.....I would think that rather than any real mania is more probable.

I know Leonard Matters Dr Stanley is likely fiction....but an interesting idea nonetheless.

Best regards

[DarkPassenger]

I also wanna point out that just because a serial killer has a specific mo, doesn't mean he isn't capable of changing his mo to throw police off. Who is to say that Jack only mutilated women? He could have poisoned women or killed them in other ways. Just saying that one shouldn't think that serial killers can't change their mos. If serial killers are able to blend in with society and act perfectly normal and escape suspicion, they are willing and capable of changing their mo for what ever the reasons may be.

You're confusing MO and signature. The MO is method, while the signature is the evidence of motive, for want of a better phrase.

Jack is not going to switch to poison from mutilation purely to throw the police off - for many many reasons, not least because he kills in the way he does because it's his method of satisfying his needs, and acting out his fantasies. It's useless to say that "morally" a poisoner is as bad as a mutilator, or that Jack would switch to poison on the basis that both methods make women suffer - such arguments are simply wrong.

[jonwilson]

You're confusing MO and signature. The MO is method, while the signature is the evidence of motive, for want of a better phrase.

Jack is not going to switch to poison from mutilation purely to throw the police off - for many many reasons, not least because he kills in the way he does because it's his method of satisfying his needs, and acting out his fantasies. It's useless to say that "morally" a poisoner is as bad as a mutilator, or that Jack would switch to poison on the basis that both methods make women suffer - such arguments are simply wrong.

It is just a thought. Serial killers have changed mo's before to throw police off.

[corey123]

John

It is possible that Jack changed his M.O but his signiture would HAVE to be the same, he kills for that reason, in my mind, is to mutilate these woman.

yours truly