Could the killer have been a transexual?

[Doug Irvine]

The character of Jamie Gumb in the movie Silence of the Lambs was based on real life serial killer and transsexual wanna be Ed Gein. Gein however could not sew as good as Gumb was supposed to be able to in the movie. He had to settle for capes, masks, and leggings made from human skin. He did not use the uterus from his victims, instead he preferred to take the vagina, so that he could wear it with the rest of his costume. This is how he was able to pretend he was a woman. Now! put the lotion in the basket.

[Limehouse]

No one knows for a fact if anybody actually did see Jack the Ripper.

It is quite a plausible theory when you meditate on it.

Perhaps he wore the womens clothes underneath and when he took the organs he took off his man clothes and hid them in that. Which would also explain why no one was seen covered in blood after the murders.

Is this an established fact? No one was covered in blood? How do we know?

[The Good Michael]

Maybe, beginning with Tabram, the killer pretended to be each of the succeeding victims. Finally, with Kelly's murder, he burned his last bits of women's clothing and sent himself to Broadmoor.

Mike

[John Bennett]

No one knows for a fact if anybody actually did see Jack the Ripper.

It is quite a plausible theory when you meditate on it.

Perhaps he wore the womens clothes underneath and when he took the organs he took off his man clothes and hid them in that. Which would also explain why no one was seen covered in blood after the murders.

I imagine that having women's clothing of the style of the 1880s stuffed underneath a pair of trousers, jacket, etc would have been pretty hard work.

And that's putting it mildly.

JB

[Grim]

Where did he keep his alternate change of clothing? He wasn't seen holding anything and he didn't leave any clothes behind.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

No one knows for a fact if anybody actually did see Jack the Ripper.

It is quite a plausible theory when you meditate on it.

Perhaps he wore the womens clothes underneath and when he took the organs he took off his man clothes and hid them in that. Which would also explain why no one was seen covered in blood after the murders.

[Tom_Wescott]

Where did he keep his alternate change of clothing? He wasn't seen holding anything and he didn't leave any clothes behind.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Grim]

So then why were men - and not women - reported as the last people seen with the victims? At least in ONE case?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

The answer is simple. When he killed them he was wearing his usual clothes, however when he fled he was disguised as a woman.

[Tom_Wescott]

That's my point. If Jack were a man dressed as a woman, then we'd have reports of the victims last being seen with a woman. The Milton Berle theory simply holds no water.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Sam Flynn]

So then why were men - and not women - reported as the last people seen with the victims? At least in ONE case?

Four, surely, Tom? Chapman, Stride, Eddowes and Kelly. Irrespective of whether one believes the witnesses really saw them with their killers, they were each apparently seen with men - even Mrs Maxwell's controversial testimony last places Kelly with a man outside the pub.

[Tom_Wescott]

So then why were men - and not women - reported as the last people seen with the victims? At least in ONE case?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Grim]

Since absolutely no women were seen with the victims just prior to their deaths, but a slew of men were, does that mean we should be looking for woman dressed as a man, instead of Grim's Boy George character?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

That is true, however it is also possible that when jack fled, he fled wearing womens clothes to avoid suspicion. Possibly dressed as another prostitute.

[Tom_Wescott]

Since absolutely no women were seen with the victims just prior to their deaths, but a slew of men were, does that mean we should be looking for woman dressed as a man, instead of Grim's Boy George character?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[The Good Michael]

This thread is useless under its current title. It needs to be changed to "Cross dresser" or "Transvestite". In its current state, it's confusing and unimportant.

Mike

[Malcolm X]

Sorry I'm confusing myself here. A woman or someone wearing womans clothes was seen in the area shortly after the death walking very fast and it has even been implied that JTR could have worn MJK's clothes after the murder to avoid suspicion.

As I seem to remember someone claimed they saw MJK after the murder but that is impossible, so what I was wondering was could JTR have worn MJK's clothes to avoid suspicion or did he disguise himself as a woman after the kills to avoid suspicion or was he secretly a transvestite?

that's ok... a woman walking fast in her locality might mean nothing, just trying to get home quickly and away from the cold/rain...Jack barely escaped the Stride murder and Eddowes too; so i doubt he had time to put his skirt/ high heels on sorry but i think that's quite funny..

i know what you're saying, but i think you're totally off course and nearly every Ripperologist will agree too... but we need new input here, fresh new ideas that's for sure !

[Grim]

So Im presuming JTR was a man. That isnt a fact.

Exactly, which is why this thread isn't useless after all as we are exploring all possibilities here.

Edit: If you are one of the people who thinks this thread is useless do yourself and others a favour and just don't post in it. How simple is that?

I'm here to discuss a theory of mine and if you find it ridiculous you don't have to comment.