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Hi all,
Let’s suppose for a minute the honorable Mr. Cates is right. There is no Jack the Ripper! We simply have a series of unrelated murders in the East end of London 1888-92. What are there, 12 total or something like that? All prostitutes (or most), mostly middle aged, all poor. Why would anyone want to kill such people? They are the lowest of the low. They have no money. They’re basically harmless. Can there really be twelve dudes who all killed an unfortunate for one reason or another? I can see a religious fanatic trying to clean up the streets or a copycat trying to off his old lady without being caught but can there be several roaming at once? And what about opening up the belly? How many dudes think oh well I better eviscerate her now that I’ve killed her, I mean c’mon, we all must eviscerate right! What else can there be?, oh yeah, conspiracy. Typically a conspiracy proffers a notable gain. What can possibly be gained by killing the most unfortunate members of a cruel society? Can you imagine two guys getting together and saying, “I know, let’s kill and cut up a bunch of prostitutes, that sounds fun doesn’t it, it’ll give us something to do on the weekends”. Truly, despite the imaginative Royal theory, conspiracy appears very unlikely. I know it’s all speculative and many on this board prefer arguing the minutiae of the non-evidence but for those who like to speculate, can anyone help me imagine what might be going on if all these murders were unrelated or committed by different hands? A field day on prostitutes for angry men? 12 priests forming a Dan Brown type pact? Methinks an unrelated theory begs credulity more than the phantom JTR one!
P.S. I apologize to Mr. Cates if that isn’t his idea, I just used this as a starting point for discussion.
Also sorry for this long post and somewhat silly thread………..
Greg
Let’s suppose for a minute the honorable Mr. Cates is right. There is no Jack the Ripper! We simply have a series of unrelated murders in the East end of London 1888-92. What are there, 12 total or something like that? All prostitutes (or most), mostly middle aged, all poor. Why would anyone want to kill such people? They are the lowest of the low. They have no money. They’re basically harmless. Can there really be twelve dudes who all killed an unfortunate for one reason or another? I can see a religious fanatic trying to clean up the streets or a copycat trying to off his old lady without being caught but can there be several roaming at once? And what about opening up the belly? How many dudes think oh well I better eviscerate her now that I’ve killed her, I mean c’mon, we all must eviscerate right! What else can there be?, oh yeah, conspiracy. Typically a conspiracy proffers a notable gain. What can possibly be gained by killing the most unfortunate members of a cruel society? Can you imagine two guys getting together and saying, “I know, let’s kill and cut up a bunch of prostitutes, that sounds fun doesn’t it, it’ll give us something to do on the weekends”. Truly, despite the imaginative Royal theory, conspiracy appears very unlikely. I know it’s all speculative and many on this board prefer arguing the minutiae of the non-evidence but for those who like to speculate, can anyone help me imagine what might be going on if all these murders were unrelated or committed by different hands? A field day on prostitutes for angry men? 12 priests forming a Dan Brown type pact? Methinks an unrelated theory begs credulity more than the phantom JTR one!
P.S. I apologize to Mr. Cates if that isn’t his idea, I just used this as a starting point for discussion.
Also sorry for this long post and somewhat silly thread………..
Greg
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