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Hello everyone and happy new year.
I last posted around a year or so ago. Since then I've been reading just about anything relating to JtR; in published books, plus reading through this excellent resource, on other sites across the web and watching TV and DVD documentaries.
For me (and this is just my opinion as a layman, not an expert) the only 2 creditable suspects in no particular order are:
1. George Harrison
2. Charles Lechmere
Why should these two stand out from the rest you ask? Well let's be honest many of the "rest" are farcical suspects, and that's putting it mildly, several in my opinion have only been written about to sell books - lets leave it at that.
a. Harrison and Lechmere have quite a lot in common; both were seen at the
relevant murder site at the right time - this is irrefutable and makes them suspects alone, add to that the way both men acted in the post-murder periods and they become prime suspects. This fact makes these two suspects unique. For me this makes them more credible than any other suspects.
b. Both interacted with the police in very strange ways; Harrison waited until after the inquest to come forward and then produced a very incredible piece of evidence relating to the description of the man (he allegedly saw), that in detail bordered on the ridiculous when you take into account that he had no need to remember the man and also add on the effect of darkness and pretty poorly lit streets. There are two possible explanations in my book; 1. he was the killer and wanted to mislead the police or 2. he was a paid accomplice of the real killer given money by him to watch over the entrance to Millers Court, in which case his description would have been good if he'd interacted with him as accomplice.
In Lechmere's case we can be pretty certain that he misled the police on two significant counts as I understand it; 1. by not giving the correct name by which he was known, and 2. by saying that there was a policeman waiting at the scene.
c. Does anybody know of cast iron alibi's for these two suspects regarding the remaining murders (aside from Nicholls and Kelly), for either of these two men?
d. What became of them both after the final canonical murder? Did the horrific slaying and "ripping" of Kelly finally sate the killer, or was it instead because the murderer was known to the police and he felt that he was under observation and desisted with that unique style of crime? Or perhaps he felt Whitechapel was too hot and hence moved on.
If one of this pair wasn't JtR then I think the killer was a MR A. Unknown.
I last posted around a year or so ago. Since then I've been reading just about anything relating to JtR; in published books, plus reading through this excellent resource, on other sites across the web and watching TV and DVD documentaries.
For me (and this is just my opinion as a layman, not an expert) the only 2 creditable suspects in no particular order are:
1. George Harrison
2. Charles Lechmere
Why should these two stand out from the rest you ask? Well let's be honest many of the "rest" are farcical suspects, and that's putting it mildly, several in my opinion have only been written about to sell books - lets leave it at that.
a. Harrison and Lechmere have quite a lot in common; both were seen at the
relevant murder site at the right time - this is irrefutable and makes them suspects alone, add to that the way both men acted in the post-murder periods and they become prime suspects. This fact makes these two suspects unique. For me this makes them more credible than any other suspects.
b. Both interacted with the police in very strange ways; Harrison waited until after the inquest to come forward and then produced a very incredible piece of evidence relating to the description of the man (he allegedly saw), that in detail bordered on the ridiculous when you take into account that he had no need to remember the man and also add on the effect of darkness and pretty poorly lit streets. There are two possible explanations in my book; 1. he was the killer and wanted to mislead the police or 2. he was a paid accomplice of the real killer given money by him to watch over the entrance to Millers Court, in which case his description would have been good if he'd interacted with him as accomplice.
In Lechmere's case we can be pretty certain that he misled the police on two significant counts as I understand it; 1. by not giving the correct name by which he was known, and 2. by saying that there was a policeman waiting at the scene.
c. Does anybody know of cast iron alibi's for these two suspects regarding the remaining murders (aside from Nicholls and Kelly), for either of these two men?
d. What became of them both after the final canonical murder? Did the horrific slaying and "ripping" of Kelly finally sate the killer, or was it instead because the murderer was known to the police and he felt that he was under observation and desisted with that unique style of crime? Or perhaps he felt Whitechapel was too hot and hence moved on.
If one of this pair wasn't JtR then I think the killer was a MR A. Unknown.
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