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Originally posted by Abby Normal
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He goes home, Abby.
Look, what I am suggesting is a functioning line of behaviour on account of Charles Lechmere, if he was the killer. And if he was, it would seem he killed en route to work (something I know you are having trouble with, but there you are). And much as nothing was taken away from Nichols - as far as we know! - we do know that Chapman lost parts of her reproduction organs. If he killed her on his way to work, then it stands to reason that Pickfords was where he took the innards. They may have served as some sort of trophies to him, for all we know.
Trophies are things that serialists save and bring out occasionally to re-experience their killings. If a killer lives alone, he will reasonably keep his trophies in his home, close to him and readily accesible.
But if a killer lives with a family...? Then I´d submit that the risk of having the goods found may prompt such a killer to find a safe place away from that family to store his trophies.
Likewise, if a killer lives with a family, he would arguably not want to come home bloodied.
Solution? Find somewhere to clean up BEFORE you go home.
You will see what I´m getting at now, Abby. I am suggesting that IF he took the innards as trophies - and we don´t know that - then he took them to Pickfords, where he had some safe place to store them, and where he could clean up unnoticed. I don´t think he would have brought the innards with him to Doveton Street after work.
This is why I find a functioning and consistent timeline and pattern of movement in the Stride/Eddowes deeds:
He kills Stride, but is disturbed.
He leaves Berner Street and heads - along his old work route - towards the West, finding Eddowes in the vicinity of Mitre Square.
He kills her, and cuts her uterus and kidney out.
He produces a makeshift textile bag from her apron, to carry the parts in.
He wraps the bag up, setting of smears of blood and fecal matter from his hands in the process. He may also have wiped his hands on the apron piece before turning it into an organ carrier.
He shoves the parcel into his pocket, where blood from the organs seep into the cloth, making it wet with blood on a portion of the surface, as per Long.
He sets off to Pickfords, where he has already stored Chapman´s uterus in a safe place, and adds his new trophies to the collection.
He washes up, and leaves Pickfords, taking the rag with him, intent on discarding it somewhere along the road, far away from both Pickfords and Doveton Street.
He chooses Goulston Street to do this, since there are deeply recessed doorways, allowing him to slip out of the view of any people on the street, dropping the rag on the floor.
He makes his way home to Doveton Street, arriving there early in the morning, with the rest of the family fast aspleep. In the morning, he will tell them about how he has visited his mother on Cable Street, something that she will be able to confirm, should the need arise.
This would explain why Long did not see the rag at 2.20 - because Lechmere had not yet passed Goulston Street at that stage. He would have had perhaps 500-600 yards from Mitre Square to Broad Street, so he may have spent 5-10 minutes getting there, perhaps taking us to around 1.55 at his arrival to Pickfords. Let´s say he spent fifteen-twenty minutes there, stowing away the innards and cleaning himself up reasonably, which would take us to around 2.15. Then he sets off for Goulston Street, another ten minute trek, arriving there in 2.25, five minutes after Long´s first check.
These are just approximations, of course, but you will get the general idea, I trust. And in the end, he may well have gone straight from Mitre Square and home, Long simply missing the rag on his first visit to Goulston Street. It´s a world of possibilities. But if Lechmere normally killed en route to work, a useful guess is that he would have stored any trophies and cleaned up at Pickfords.
All the best,
Fisherman
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