On the Road with Jack the Ripper

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  • Geister
    Cadet
    • Oct 2008
    • 21

    #1

    On the Road with Jack the Ripper

    Anybody seen this yet? https://www.academia.edu/11391789/On...ack_the_Ripper
  • Ozzy
    Detective
    • Jun 2010
    • 275

    #2
    It's a pdf and it seems that an account is needed before it can be downloaded/viewed.
    These are not clues, Fred.
    It is not yarn leading us to the dark heart of this place.
    They are half-glimpsed imaginings, tangle of shadows.
    And you and I floundering at them in the ever vainer hope that we might corral them into meaning when we will not.
    We will not.

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    • Pcdunn
      Superintendent
      • Dec 2014
      • 2325

      #3
      Originally posted by Ozzy View Post
      It's a pdf and it seems that an account is needed before it can be downloaded/viewed.

      That wouldn't be uncommon at .edu domains, especially if the material is reserved for use by students or teachers.
      Pat D. https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...rt/reading.gif
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      Von Konigswald: Jack the Ripper plays shuffleboard. -- Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, c.1970.
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      • Geister
        Cadet
        • Oct 2008
        • 21

        #4
        On the road with Jack the Ripper Paul J. Ennis In 1988 a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent, John E. Douglas, compiled a brief report on the Jack the Ripper case.1 In contradistinction to the tiresome sensationalism that blights the field of Ripperology, this short document is remarkably ...

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        • Pcdunn
          Superintendent
          • Dec 2014
          • 2325

          #5
          Thank you for the second link, Geister, a download worked better than trying to read it on the screen.

          Interesting article or scholarly paper, though the status of its author (student or professor) isn't clear. I'm guessing a student, because his overall theme seems a bit confused. Why go on about the triangles, when no importance seems drawn from them?
          Likewise, the author's final paragraphs seem to be suggesting that Jack grew up in the slums, was part of the slums, and hence the "Psychosphere" of the area led him to participate in its criminal activity. That seems to come out of left field, after the preceding pages discussing Douglas' FBI profile of Jack the Ripper, and theorizing about the events leading up to Elizabeth Stride's murder.

          Still, very interesting, and worth a read.
          Pat D. https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...rt/reading.gif
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          Von Konigswald: Jack the Ripper plays shuffleboard. -- Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, c.1970.
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