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So a lot of the suspects nominated over the years have relied on the Ripper travelling into the Eastend, and/or slipping away so his or her presence can be noted elsewhere. From elsewhere in London (which is not entirely impossible, but some theories cut it a little fine) or further away (artists, royals and other celebrity suspects who were meant to be in a different city, county or country having some means of being unnoticed in London during the nights of murders).
So let's assume we wanted to narrow the field a little and say that for a suspect to be viable they had to be shown to be within a set distance of a murder. How wide a radius would you set as being close enough to be (in this respect alone) viable for suspicion.
A matter of miles? Tens of miles? Would one be able to assume "if the trains were on time", or would we need to prove a suspect was on a particular train (presumably then placing them at a fixed location, the station, at a fixed time?)
How do we use common sense here to distinguish wheat from chaff?
So let's assume we wanted to narrow the field a little and say that for a suspect to be viable they had to be shown to be within a set distance of a murder. How wide a radius would you set as being close enough to be (in this respect alone) viable for suspicion.
A matter of miles? Tens of miles? Would one be able to assume "if the trains were on time", or would we need to prove a suspect was on a particular train (presumably then placing them at a fixed location, the station, at a fixed time?)
How do we use common sense here to distinguish wheat from chaff?
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