Tweet
I've actually wondered whether Eddowes' murder was a kind of "FU" to police. If these murders were done by one man, he surely could not have been at all ignorant of the media and police furore over the spate of murders - and that night, instead of hunting the many quieter, more deserted places he could have chosen, he picked a place where, if I have it right, the only occupied building was the home a policeman, and which was patrolled every 15 mins or so, like clockwork. Which begs the question - was this deliberate? I think it might have been. The possibility is there.
And that would account for the rage exhibited in the facial mutilations, as well as as apparent change in skill level -- if his "mission" had changed slightly, the removal of organs not the primary goal, but making some sort of point, or taunting, and directed by rage, then the level of skill exhibited could very feasibly have been reduced, as whatever the primary motive was had been subsumed, I don't think entirely 'replaced', by a need to communicate his anger and probably a sense of 'superiority' that so many serial killers exhibit.
Dr. Brown said at the inquest:
[Coroner] Would the removal of the kidney, for example, require special knowledge? - It would require a good deal of knowledge as to its position, because it is apt to be overlooked, being covered by a membrane.
and:
Coroner] Have you any opinion as to what position the woman was in when the wounds were inflicted? - In my opinion the woman must have been lying down. The way in which the kidney was cut out showed that it was done by somebody who knew what he was about.
Dr. Sequiera said:
I think that the murderer had no design on any particular organ of the body. He was not possessed of any great anatomical skill.
-- But he "knew what he was about", and could locate a kidney in poor lighting conditions, in an extremely stressful situation. And I think he might have *chosen* that situation, despite the stress and risk, for reasons other than just randomly passing poor hapless Kate Eddowes in the street.
How do we know, for example, that he had not been lurking in a building nearby for days on end, just hoping a woman who fit his needs came bumbling along at the most opportune moment? If he got her in the square at 1.30-1.35 and cut her throat immediately, he'd have had almost ten minutes to vent his rage and harvest a few organs...
It isn't a lot of time, and if he was adding "extras" to the murder (the facial damage) to make a point (to cops or Eddowes or just himself, who knows) -and- was in some kind of fit of rage, that would be very different from a situation where he was in complete control and had only his original goal in mind. So he did a 'butcher's job', moreso than usual.
And then with Mary Kelly, we can see both rage and skill, played out because he was not under the same constraints, the same pressure to hurry and achieve it all at once..
And that would account for the rage exhibited in the facial mutilations, as well as as apparent change in skill level -- if his "mission" had changed slightly, the removal of organs not the primary goal, but making some sort of point, or taunting, and directed by rage, then the level of skill exhibited could very feasibly have been reduced, as whatever the primary motive was had been subsumed, I don't think entirely 'replaced', by a need to communicate his anger and probably a sense of 'superiority' that so many serial killers exhibit.
Dr. Brown said at the inquest:
[Coroner] Would the removal of the kidney, for example, require special knowledge? - It would require a good deal of knowledge as to its position, because it is apt to be overlooked, being covered by a membrane.
and:
Coroner] Have you any opinion as to what position the woman was in when the wounds were inflicted? - In my opinion the woman must have been lying down. The way in which the kidney was cut out showed that it was done by somebody who knew what he was about.
Dr. Sequiera said:
I think that the murderer had no design on any particular organ of the body. He was not possessed of any great anatomical skill.
-- But he "knew what he was about", and could locate a kidney in poor lighting conditions, in an extremely stressful situation. And I think he might have *chosen* that situation, despite the stress and risk, for reasons other than just randomly passing poor hapless Kate Eddowes in the street.
How do we know, for example, that he had not been lurking in a building nearby for days on end, just hoping a woman who fit his needs came bumbling along at the most opportune moment? If he got her in the square at 1.30-1.35 and cut her throat immediately, he'd have had almost ten minutes to vent his rage and harvest a few organs...
It isn't a lot of time, and if he was adding "extras" to the murder (the facial damage) to make a point (to cops or Eddowes or just himself, who knows) -and- was in some kind of fit of rage, that would be very different from a situation where he was in complete control and had only his original goal in mind. So he did a 'butcher's job', moreso than usual.
And then with Mary Kelly, we can see both rage and skill, played out because he was not under the same constraints, the same pressure to hurry and achieve it all at once..
Comment