Cornwell Resolute Over Jack The Ripper Identity

[miss marple]

My secondhand copy, which cost one pound, went into the wood burning stove of my old house, a few years ago, so did provide heat for a few minutes.

Miss Marple

[gnote]

Don't knock the dear lady...she's doing an excellent job...one of our two copies of her JtR work is helping support our #2 upright piano (alas absent a castor)...and has been for some years...

I do not have such use for my copy at the present. Therefore I cannot completely share in your rather pleasant disposition. I am however glad to hear directly from somebody who was able to chance upon a lemonade out of lemons arrangement.

[Cogidubnus]

Don't knock the dear lady...she's doing an excellent job...one of our two copies of her JtR work is helping support our #2 upright piano (alas absent a castor)...and has been for some years...

[gnote]

Maybe he broke the supposed weapon, his (palette) knife.

Could be. If it was his absolute favorite knife maybe he just didn't want to kill again with a replacement. That's how attached he was to it.

[Beowulf]

Because he was an artist and artists tend to be weird?

Maybe he broke the supposed weapon, his (palette) knife.

[eighty-eighter]

And this has got to do what, to do with Cornwell's books.

Dear GUT, you yourself along with Amanda referred to the Lechmere theory within this thread, that's all. You said that "Cross was closed because the experts said so" or something like that.

[gnote]

Dear old Walter woke up one morning and stopped killing because........

Because he was an artist and artists tend to be weird?

[PaulB]

Just for the record, NO painting was vandalised by or otherwise damaged by Patricia Cornwell. One painting was inadequately packaged and was damaged in transit. Insurance and related paperwork exists supporting this. No matter what one may have heard, Patricia Cornwell isn't dumb enough to destroy a painting she'd just paid tens of thousands for.

[GUT]

I still don't understand what she expected to find in that painting she vandalised.....

Don't think Cross/Lechmere can be dismissed as easily as the other televised suspects over the years. Granted 4/5ths of the documentary is purely speculative and fit the facts to the suspect in the time honoured fashion, but not the bit relating to the crime scene and just after. If you cherry pick just that bit and ignore the rest of the documentary then he was:

1. Proven as the first at the murder scene of Nichols whom had just been slain. A massive connection.
2. Nichols was still warm and indeed could have been dying according to Paul's statement. Where did the killer go so quickly? I visited the murder scene in the late 60's and there was nowhere to hide.
3. He accosted Paul in a rather brazen manner, including physically, as if he half expected Paul to know something he didn't. Almost a fight or flight response.
4. He told Paul that she was dead even though Paul had said he detected signs of life. How was he certain that she was dead when there was no evidence of blood even?
5. He refused to assist Paul to sit the body up, had that of occurred of course it would have been obvious that Nichols throat had been deeply cut.
6. He told pc Mizen that there was a pc already at the scene waiting for him.

These are proven facts. I've not included the timing discrepancies because we can't be certain what time Lechmere left home for certain. I've also not included the fact that Lechmere gave a name he was no longer using as there could be an innocent explanation for this.
For me the jury is still out on just these known facts, and I'd really like to know more about Lechmere's character before dismissing him as a suspect.
For certain if those events occurred today he'd be down the station before you could say Jack the Ripper.

And this has got to do what, to do with Cornwell's books.

[eighty-eighter]

I still don't understand what she expected to find in that painting she vandalised.....

Don't think Cross/Lechmere can be dismissed as easily as the other televised suspects over the years. Granted 4/5ths of the documentary is purely speculative and fit the facts to the suspect in the time honoured fashion, but not the bit relating to the crime scene and just after. If you cherry pick just that bit and ignore the rest of the documentary then he was:

1. Proven as the first at the murder scene of Nichols whom had just been slain. A massive connection.
2. Nichols was still warm and indeed could have been dying according to Paul's statement. Where did the killer go so quickly? I visited the murder scene in the late 60's and there was nowhere to hide.
3. He accosted Paul in a rather brazen manner, including physically, as if he half expected Paul to know something he didn't. Almost a fight or flight response.
4. He told Paul that she was dead even though Paul had said he detected signs of life. How was he certain that she was dead when there was no evidence of blood even?
5. He refused to assist Paul to sit the body up, had that of occurred of course it would have been obvious that Nichols throat had been deeply cut.
6. He told pc Mizen that there was a pc already at the scene waiting for him.

These are proven facts. I've not included the timing discrepancies because we can't be certain what time Lechmere left home for certain. I've also not included the fact that Lechmere gave a name he was no longer using as there could be an innocent explanation for this.
For me the jury is still out on just these known facts, and I'd really like to know more about Lechmere's character before dismissing him as a suspect.
For certain if those events occurred today he'd be down the station before you could say Jack the Ripper.

[DVV]

I haven't seen the Crossmere documentary.
Where is it available ?
I'm sure it's fascinating.
Perhaps more than Winnie-the-Pooh.

[pinkmoon]

Dear old Walter woke up one morning and stopped killing because........

[GUT]

Well, at least the dear lady's enjoying herself, a bit of harmless dabbling never hurt anyone.
We all know Cornwell's going to do okay with the sales, she's got a huge fan base. However, I think most people will take her Ripper research as fiction, which is the genre that she's best known for.

What with all this shawl business and the Lechmere documentary, I really hope someone comes up with a good read soon.

Amanda

To be fair I thought the Lechmere documentary was pretty good, didn't agree with most of it, as it seems to be nothing but speculation, but still good.

[Amanda]

Ha,ha.....

I believe she's now found a Shawl and that Sickert used a fake name!!!

Well, at least the dear lady's enjoying herself, a bit of harmless dabbling never hurt anyone.
We all know Cornwell's going to do okay with the sales, she's got a huge fan base. However, I think most people will take her Ripper research as fiction, which is the genre that she's best known for.

What with all this shawl business and the Lechmere documentary, I really hope someone comes up with a good read soon.

Amanda

[GUT]

I believe she's now found a Shawl and that Sickert used a fake name!!!