TikTok sleuth busts open 'Jack the Ripper' mystery

[richardh]

... by identifying a 'creepy, rich, misogynistic artist' as the killer of Victorian London - and you ALREADY know his name

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...an-London.html

[Geddy2112]

I got as far as a TikToker from Tennessee and stopped as I knew it would be BS...

[Ms Diddles]

Oh God!

It's Degas!!!

Another one for the "Most Ridiculous Suspects" thread.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Why does The Daily Mail think that the opinion of someone that wouldn’t win a counting your own legs competition is worth printing? This appears to be a woman that thinks that they had underwater trains in those days. So we’ve had Sickert, Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec and now Degas.

I’m sure that I can see mutilated corpses in those water lilies. Wait for my new book: Claude the Ripper: The Beast of Giverny.

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Jesus flippin' wept! Why!? Oh wait, 15 million views on TikTok. That'll be why.

[Charlie]

The right question would be to know who wasn't Jack the Ripper?

[Robert St Devil]

Why does The Daily Mail think that the opinion of someone that wouldn’t win a counting your own legs competition is worth printing? This appears to be a woman that thinks that they had underwater trains in those days. So we’ve had Sickert, Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec and now Degas.

I’m sure that I can see mutilated corpses in those water lilies. Wait for my new book: Claude the Ripper: The Beast of Giverny.

Maybe your theories would gain more traction with the Daily Mail HERLOCK if you tried being a perky, freckled redhead more often.

Wait… see here… it reads that Degas may have been likely to carry chalk in his pocket, him being an artist & all… and the GSG being written in chalk. That’s the break-through ive been looking for… caso cerrado!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Maybe your theories would gain more traction with the Daily Mail HERLOCK if you tried being a perky, freckled redhead more often.

Wait… see here… it reads that Degas may have been likely to carry chalk in his pocket, him being an artist & all… and the GSG being written in chalk. That’s the break-through ive been looking for… caso cerrado!

Yup, the chalk is the clincher Robert (though I did try that one with Druitt being a schoolteacher but no one went for it.)

[Herlock Sholmes]

The right question would be to know who wasn't Jack the Ripper?

Charles Cross

[Ms Diddles]

Why does The Daily Mail think that the opinion of someone that wouldn’t win a counting your own legs competition is worth printing?

It's the Daily Mail, Herlock!

Let's face it, the bar is set pretty low!

[mpriestnall]

Why does The Daily Mail think that the opinion of someone that wouldn’t win a counting your own legs competition is worth printing? This appears to be a woman that thinks that they had underwater trains in those days. So we’ve had Sickert, Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec and now Degas.

I’m sure that I can see mutilated corpses in those water lilies. Wait for my new book: Claude the Ripper: The Beast of Giverny.

I've not heard of Toulouse Lautrec as the being a Ripper suspect before. At 4'8" tall that produces quite a comical image. Did he carry a little box around with him to stand on when propositioning his victims?

[Herlock Sholmes]

It's the Daily Mail, Herlock!

Let's face it, the bar is set pretty low!

I didn’t consider that Ms D.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I've not heard of Toulouse Lautrec as the being a Ripper suspect before. At 4'8" tall that produces quite a comical image. Did he carry a little box around with him to stand on when propositioning his victims?

It was actually Henri Bourges who committed the murder…apparently.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Ripper-Case-Solved-Alexander/dp/1326389688

I’ll let you read it first Martyn.

[Lewis C]

I love this quote from the article: "She notes that Degas wrote a 'ton of letters' from southern France at the time of two Ripper slayings.

This was likely Degas 'setting himself up an alibi' through a paper trail, she adds."

So Degas wrote letters from southern France at the time of the murders, and she views that as him setting himself up an alibi, but if he was in southern France at the time of the murders, that would mean that he really does have an alibi..

[JeffHamm]

I'm particularly impressed by her assertion that it was a short train trip from France to London in 1888.

- Jeff