JTR Motives List

[corey123]

Hello Mike,

Jack the Egotist
The Ripper was a ¡¥publicity hound¡¦ who found his celebrity status to be intoxicating and thus took pains to ensure that the crime scenes would all be as spectacularly horrifying as he could manage under the circumstances, to gain better media coverage. What better way to do so than to eviscerate fallen women in public?

Sounds familiar???

Only half way true I believe

Yours truly

[protohistorian]

That was a good one Roy! well done! Is the satanist a version of holy man? Dave

[The Grave Maurice]

I send you a Hors hed
Mishter Lusk

<Applause, laughter, standing ovation>
That was excellent, Roy.

[Roy Corduroy]

Jack the Godfather

I send you a Hors hed
Mishter Lusk

[mklhawley]

Interesting additions (and no I'd never hate you Lynn ). I copy-pasted this list onto a Word document awhile ago, but I no longer remember where I got it.

Mike

[Adam Went]

What about Jack the disillusioned member of society?
Heard that one plenty of times before. Interesting list, though!

Cheers,
Adam.

[lynn cates]

suggestions

Hello Mike. Would you hate me forever if I suggested Jack the non-existent or Jack the media event?

Cheers.
LC

[Scorpio]

What about Jack the assassin ?. I think that Sickert fathered that one.

[mklhawley]

Greetings all,

I have a copy of this list of potential JTR motives. Does anyone know who came up with it?

Jack the Bogeyman
The Ripper really was a murderous monster, and took organs from the victims as trophies from the kill, for later consumption, or some use.

Jack the Wanker
The Ripper was a sexual deviant and took organs from the victims as a necessary part of his sexual release and/or for use in later masturbation.

Jack the Madman
The Ripper was criminally insane and the mutilations, like the murders, were simply the act of a madman predisposed toward extreme violence.

Jack the Mad Man
The Ripper acted out of anger and/or hatred, and thus wished to inflict as much damage as possible on his victims. Since he could kill them only once, he did the next best thing by mutilating their corpses.

Jack the Tripper
The Ripper was acting under the influence of drug and alcohol-induced psychosis and committed the mutilations either as part of a psychedelic experience or much as he would have if criminally insane or brain damaged in some form or fashion.

Jack the Bad Man
The Ripper was purely evil and mutilated his victims simply because it was such a bad thing to do.

Jack the Jill-Hater
The Ripper was a misogynist and tried to destroy the womanhood of the victims post-mortem via mutilation of their bodies and sexual organs.

Jack the Jolly Man
The Ripper mutilated the bodies just as a lark. These acts may have been nothing more than attempts at mind games with Victorian society.

Jack the Human-being Stalker
The Ripper was obsessed with prostitutes and mutilated them to gather organs as trophies of his kills.

Jack the Egotist
The Ripper was a ¡¥publicity hound¡¦ who found his celebrity status to be intoxicating and thus took pains to ensure that the crime scenes would all be as spectacularly horrifying as he could manage under the circumstances, to gain better media coverage. What better way to do so than to eviscerate fallen women in public?

Jack the Thrill-seeker
The Ripper performed the mutilations to add to the thrill and danger of the kill, and just because he could do so. This act would thus be a form of ¡§pushing the envelope¡¨ for the crimes.

Jack the Anarchist
The brutality of the murders and the mutilations, and the public display of the victims may just have been a ¡¥social statement¡¦ for shock value, to create a series of tableaux horribile.

Jack the Godfather
Mutilation would be an underlying purpose of the Ripper¡¦s murders, to act as a warning to unknown parties, and possibly to others of their kind . Mary Kelly would have been razored out of existence because she was killed indoors and thus provided him with hitherto unavailable time and opportunity.

Jack the Capitalist
As we shall later see in the discussion of possible motives and reasons for the Whitechapel Murders, it may have been to Jack’s financial interest to make the murders as horrifying as possible.

Jack the Blind Man
It may be that the Ripper mutilated his victims and took body organs just to confuse the issue for the police or implicate others such as the Masons.


Sincerely,

Mike