Profiling the Whitechapel killer

[DVV]

Hi Jason, I'm surprised at your post. We know plenty of serial killers that have killed for weeks, or for months, or years. One cannot choose a suspect according to the mania JtR is supposed to have suffered from. We simply don't know.

[JG76]

Hi Jason, I'm surprised at your post. We know plenty of serial killers that have killed for weeks, or for months, or years. One cannot choose a suspect according to the mania JtR is supposed to have suffered from. We simply don't know.

Have " Jack Uppskäraren , kriminalfall och legend" been translated into english ? Its a very good book anyway .

[DVV]

I don't think it has been translated. It certainly looks good and it's richly illustrated. Unfortunately I can't read it.

[DVV]

JG, don't trust Glenn about Mary Kelly.
For the rest, he's a knowledgeable person.

[JG76]

I don't think it has been translated. It certainly looks good and it's richly illustrated. Unfortunately I can't read it.

that was a shame , because it includes everything . I wondered why a swedish book was recomended if it wasnt translated into english . Perhaps there are many swedish members on this forum ?

[jason_c]

Hi Jason, I'm surprised at your post. We know plenty of serial killers that have killed for weeks, or for months, or years. One cannot choose a suspect according to the mania JtR is supposed to have suffered from. We simply don't know.

I wasnt attempting to choose a suspect from any mania we might guess the killer had. I was attempting to understand why we have a "brief" ten week period of killing. Sutcliffe(amongst others) killed for years on end. Why do we have this person killing for a few weeks but at such an intense rate? Is there a known psychological illness that can account for this?

This all assumes of course that the killer was alive & well long after the Kelly murder.

[JG76]

JG, don't trust Glenn about Mary Kelly.
For the rest, he's a knowledgeable person.

What is Glenns opinion about the MJK murder ? You said you hadnt read the book .

[DVV]

I wasnt attempting to choose a suspect from any mania we might guess the killer had. I was attempting to understand why we have a "brief" ten week period of killing. Sutcliffe(amongst others) killed for years on end.

Ok Jason, understood. But :

Why do we have this person killing for a few weeks but at such an intense rate? Is there a known psychological illness that can account for this?
This all assumes of course that the killer was alive & well long after the Kelly murder.

This is where we differ. I'm not sure any psychological illness would answer that. There might have been more than one explanation.

[DVV]

What is Glenns opinion about the MJK murder ? You said you hadnt read the book .

You said you read the book.
I'm lost.

Glenn was posting here. He is well known.

[DVV]

And he doesn't think MJK was a Ripper victim.

[JG76]

....and he doesn't think MJK was a Ripper victim.

Ýes I have read the book . But the book isnt about Glenns ideas or theories , just facts .

[DVV]

Oh, I see. Must be "fakts" in Swedish.

[DVV]

All ripper-books discuss the canon, JG.

[Malcolm X]

Ýes I have read the book . But the book isnt about Glenns ideas or theories , just facts .

If it was facts that Glenn quotes then JTR would have been caught, try the words theory and speculation instead

Glenn used to think MJK was a Ripper victim, but this all changed a few years ago, yea' i remember it well

[Supe]

Malcolm,

Not sure what it is you are on about, but I do think you are unfair to friend Andersson. it is quite possible for an author with strong sentiments about a particular suspect nonetheless to write an objective book on the murders, as Glenn did. By the same token, as Sugden (under pressure from his publishers) showed, it is possible to write an objective book despite laying great stress on one particular suspect.

Don.