Could the killer have been a transexual?

[Jon Guy]

Hello

The girls were all killed in an acceptable location to fulfill a sexual transaction, therefore, it is reasonable enough to rule out the possibilty of a client dressed in women`s clothing, a policeman or someone from an overtly religous background.

If the killer wanted to avoid suspicion and gain the confidence of the girls, the obvious requirement would be to appear as a local working class man.

[j.r-ahde]

Hello you all!

He could even have been a Finnish sailor, who didn't get a drink in the Ten Bells, making the street-girls substitutes for the waitresses...

All right, more serious; in the tense atmosphere of the Whitechapel, the transvestites, homosexuals, etc. were obviously more suspicious people to the common men and women than usual.

So; had JtR been anyone belonging to the groups above, that person would probably have been lynched!

All the best
Jukka

[The Good Michael]

Robert,

Right, a transsexual is someone who has had a sex change or is wanting to have it done. That's why this is such an odd concept to grasp. I don't think there were many around in the LVP, if any. There were dwarfs with bad acne, however.

Mike

[Robert]

Bit confused here. A transvestite is someone who dresses as the opposite sex. A transexual is something different, isn't it?

Anyway, I can't see Jack standing in front of the mirror and thinking "I'll knock 'em dead in this outfit."

[The Good Michael]

The killer could have been a 2'10" dwarf with bad acne and a peg leg who was pissed off at women because they only wanted to set him on their knees. He probably wasn't, however.

Mike

[Mitch Rowe]

Its been discussed. Pearly Poll has been mentioned as a candidate. Id say its next to impossible. Not only from the law of averages but from the fact that there arent many reasons Annie went into the backyard other than for the you know whatzits.
I remember reading a press report where a guy tried dressing up as a woman to try to catch the ripper. The girls beat him up. I think they thought it was the ripper trying a trick or something.

[Grim]

Like in the movie Silence of the Lambs?

Remember the last person seen in the area after MJK was murdered was a woman walking away in a hurry. Its possible that the killer had escaped capture because he was dressed as a woman.

Perhaps that is why he was keeping the uteri etc... because he wanted to become a woman.

I can just imagine him now in MJK's room telling her "it puts its organs in the basket or else it gets the hose again".