If the Police Had a Modern Understanding of Serial Killers

[mariag]

Certainly our modern forensics would probably have caught the killer. At least it would have cleared up many of our questions including probably who was or was not a victim.

Modern policing such as not disturbing a crime scene would have been valuab le.

Our modern knowledge of serial killers is pretty iffy so I don't think it would have been as important.

[Jeff Leahy]

I cant agree with that totally CD. Look at the Sally Anne Bowman case. The killer was DNA tested after a football punch up. He'd never been in trouble but the DNA connected him to the killing.

So while I agree that catching serial killers is often luck. DNA evidence has given the modern policeman a major advantage over the boys in blue in 1888.

That said I also believe that police work was aloud to be more intuitive in 1888 than today.

Pirate

[c.d.]

If the police in 1888 had our modern understanding of serial killers, would anything have changed in how they approached the case? Would they have caught Jack? It seems to me that even today with what we know about serial killers that catching them remains a difficult task and often is the result of luck or a major slip up on the part of the killer.

c.d.