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  • Tom_Wescott
    Commissioner
    • Feb 2008
    • 7037

    #16
    Originally posted by Scott Nelson View Post
    How many victims according to Dave Clark?
    He pitches his tent in the Ben Folds and Jackson camp. I refuse to debate with any of them.

    Yours truly,

    Tom Wescott

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    • Wickerman
      Commissioner
      • Oct 2008
      • 14917

      #17
      The only person who really knows the true number is long dead, everyone else can only offer an opinion, that will never change.
      Regards, Jon S.

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      • Fiver
        Assistant Commissioner
        • Oct 2019
        • 3453

        #18
        Originally posted by Tom_Wescott View Post
        Hi Paul. The phrase is obnoxious because it's misleading and it's bad history. Macnaghten believed there were five victims and Fido believed it as well, therefore it's fact? I don't think so. I would suggest attributing that number to its primary source - Macnaghten, i.e. the Macnaghten Five. Adding Tabram you'd have the Anderson Six. The Arnold Four, Percy Clark Three, Reid Ten, Hawley Eighty-four, etc.
        And I believe the Dew Seven. Plus many of the police did not say how many victims there were, IIRC, that includes Abberline, Littlechild, Monro, Swanson, Smith. And then there were the opinions of the doctors. Thomas Bond went with the C5 + Mackenzie. I'm not sure about the others.



        "The full picture always needs to be given. When this does not happen, we are left to make decisions on insufficient information." - Christer Holmgren

        "Unfortunately, when one becomes obsessed by a theory, truth and logic rarely matter." - Steven Blomer

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        • Geddy2112
          Inspector
          • Dec 2015
          • 1430

          #19
          Originally posted by Fiver View Post

          And I believe the Dew Seven. Plus many of the police did not say how many victims there were, IIRC, that includes Abberline, Littlechild, Monro, Swanson, Smith. And then there were the opinions of the doctors. Thomas Bond went with the C5 + Mackenzie. I'm not sure about the others.
          ...and the Holmgren and Stow 457

          Jack the Ripper - Double Cross

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          • Sam Flynn
            Casebook Supporter
            • Feb 2008
            • 13342

            #20
            Originally posted by Geddy2112 View Post

            ...and the Holmgren and Stow 457
            Just as well the Ripper wasn't active in Pennsylvania, or they'd have pinned all 65000 on him
            Kind regards, Sam Flynn

            "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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