Jack the Ripper Marketing: Wholesome Family Values Killer?

[Robert]

Isn't it partly due to a failure of imagination? We tend to feel most sympathy for the people who are most like us, because we can up to a point put ourselves in their shoes. So things done to people from other countries/other classes/ other genders / other time periods seem less real. Of course some people can get worked up over things done to folks who are quite unlike them, and some people you'd expect to sympathise don't give a toss. But there's a general unconscious tendency at work.

Sometimes the genealogy shows confront someone with a tragedy which befell one of their ancestors, someone whom they never knew and perhaps never even heard of. The blood link kicks in and they start to blub. It's only natural.

[Digalittledeeperwatson]

What's in a name?

The name Jack the Ripper is one reason for certain. It does much of the work all by itself. The fact the mystery is, up to this point anyways, unsolved, and definitely unable to be proven, is another massive factor. I would also say that the apparent impunity the murderer was able to function with is an underlying notion that has lasting appeal. Power. Everyone loves power. To do whatever one wants, no matter how heinous, and remain unscathed from it tends to get people on board. Jack is kind of an anti-hero. Uh, let's see, kinda like, we are intrigued, impressed, etc, not exactly with what you did or how or why, but with the fact you were able to pull it off. Says more about people than the murderer probably.

[PC Fitzroy-Toye]

I think in some part its to do with are idear of that time with its morals, politeness and sensibilitys, then out of the fog and gas light comes J with a horror, insanity and purpose all of his own and it just feels the more stark because of it, and that he was never discover along with his abillity to kill butcher and melt back into the night all adds to are vulgar curiosity.
He was real but we can put no face to him no character and no logic to his crimes in a way he has a resonance with fear we all at times feel uneasy wondering if something will come out of the fog of life and fate and bring horror and fear to are own person.

[GUT]

G'Day PC

...his abillity to kill butcher and melt back into the night all adds to are vulgar curiosity.
He was real but we can put no face to him no character and no logic to his crimes in a way he has a resonance with fear we all at times feel uneasy wondering if something will come out of the fog of life and fate and bring horror and fear to are own person.

Add to that the fact that 125 years later we are no nearer, and probably further, from any type of resolution and ....

[PC Fitzroy-Toye]

G'Day PC



Add to that the fact that 125 years later we are no nearer, and probably further, from any type of resolution and ....

Quit so GUT ! look at these forums, pages of dissection about ever detail yet his picture is no clearer! its an odd thing to think of, how many killers of recent times will be considered a hundred years from now Im sure it would of pleased him to know.

[GUT]

its an odd thing to think of, how many killers of recent times will be considered a hundred years from now

Zodiac seems the most likely.

[Roy Corduroy]

Good morning K453,

This is a documentary about this topic: "Shadow Of Jack The Ripper"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiA0eIj_EJQ

Thank you for that. It is a good show, very perceptive. For instance showing how W T Stead, and other newsmen used the Ripper crimes to lambast the police and the authorities. Which is one part, I think of the Ripper's popularity. People today unload on police, the authorities, the establishment. APEING what has been done before.

Roy

[jason_c]

I think in some part its to do with are idear of that time with its morals, politeness and sensibilitys, then out of the fog and gas light comes J with a horror, insanity and purpose all of his own and it just feels the more stark because of it, and that he was never discover along with his abillity to kill butcher and melt back into the night all adds to are vulgar curiosity.
He was real but we can put no face to him no character and no logic to his crimes in a way he has a resonance with fear we all at times feel uneasy wondering if something will come out of the fog of life and fate and bring horror and fear to are own person.

Add to this the suppposed Royal connection and you have yourself a true mystery. During the 1970's and 80's at least the Ripper case found a niche in the conspiracy theory industry. There are few things more marketable than an event which includes a serial killer, mutilation, mystery, Royalty and a conspiracy. All we are missing are UFO's.

[PC Fitzroy-Toye]

Add to this the suppposed Royal connection and you have yourself a true mystery. During the 1970's and 80's at least the Ripper case found a niche in the conspiracy theory industry. There are few things more marketable than an event which includes a serial killer, mutilation, mystery, Royalty and a conspiracy. All we are missing are UFO's.

Well theres an idear see if we can implicate that the cattle mutilations in the US and jack are the same creature! its not like we have to worry about any facts we do as other do and just bend all things to fit are concept