Jack The Ripper's face??

[Losmandris]

Happy New Year one and all!

I am pretty sure the walking stick plays a small role in the graphic novel 'from hell'. Someone selling them after the double event as 'mad monk' walking sticks. Abberline is presented with one as a bit of a joke at the end? I think? The stick looks just like the one in the novel, so agree don't think it has been hidden for years.

[mpriestnall]

A mystery that never was. How ironic.

[mpriestnall]

Apparently Packer was discredited...

[Aethelwulf]

Apparently Packer was discredited...

If Packer did sell grapes to the ripper, those sketches go a fair way to explaining how he got away with it. He looks so totally unremarkable and normal that if passed in the street, you wouldn't look twice. He also looks like he could have money.

[Aethelwulf]

Passable on nose and eyes but can't see the hair in either sketch. Reasonable on a sort of 'youthful' look of someone late twenties. A sketch of Bury in August 1888 apparently shows him with just a moustache. The theory is he grew the beard to change his appearance, possibly after the double event (Beadle) but I think more likely after the failed attempt and good description in relation to Farmer.