Did he have anatomical knowledge?

[Wickerman]

The most likely solution is not new ideas, but new information.

Arguments have been going round in circles for over a decade. New ideas are not the answer because they can only come from speculation, and we have enough of that already.
What is needed is more accurate information to complement what we already possess.

[Outlaw]

Hi Prosector,

Thank you for your informative and eminently sensible post. Nocturnal kerbside surgery sure ain't easy.

However, I regret to tell you that your apparent knowledge in these matters will not shine a light in the dark corridors of Ripperology, for you may have noticed that all arguments regarding the Whitechapel murders inevitably return to the mystery's default settings, which over the years have almost become an article of faith: namely that a person known as Jack the Ripper [variously and authoritatively identified as a suicidal schoolteacher, an insane Polish Jew, a quack doctor and a hanged poisoner] actually possessed the dazzling kerbside surgical skills which contradict your post.

Faith is resistant to logic and reason. Which is why the mystery persists. For some bizarre reason, people insist on believing in Jack.

Regards,

Simon

I can find nothing in that to disagree with at all

Pardon the pun, but some 'new blood' is desperately needed if anything regarding JTR can progress from the situation it stubbornly refuses to move on from.

[RockySullivan]

Do butchers cut from rectum up to breastplate and disembowel? The rippings look more like an expert with a knife and extensive experience disemboweling.

[RockySullivan]

Dr Baxter said chapmans killer "must have been someone accustomed with the post -mortem room"...did the ripper work in the morgue at London hospital? Or could he have worked In a funeral home? I doubt he'd have much experience opening up bodies in the funeral home right? Does anyone think jack worked with cadavers? Are there any professions that cut organs out of dead bodies? It's impossible to imagine an average joe or even a butcher could cut out the sex organs that fast with such calm & cool

[elleryqueen74]

Hi All,

This is my first visit to this forum in a long time and decided to take the long journey through reading this thread first up.

I have to thank Prosector for his very fine input into this subject. He has only reaffirmed my belief that the Ripper was no slash and grab artist. I will be more honest than some here and say that even though I do know the approximate region of the kidneys on the human body I very highly doubt I would be able to remove one in a short amount of time in the dark.

I must also say Trevor Marriot brings up some most fascinating points regarding the removal of the organs from Chapman and Eddowes. I never really thought until this point that someone (other than the killer) might of removed the organs at the mortuary at a later stage before the autopsies where performed. This would also explain why there were differing opinions from the doctors regarding skill/knowledge etc because there were 2 different people who had accessed the women's bodies before the autopsies, one with little to knowledge who was the murderer and then one later who had some skill or knowledge who raided the bodies for the organs before the doctors performed the autopsies.

The other good point I think that Trevor brought up that changed my view of things was the flaps of skin cut in Eddowes face. Again until reading his explanation and seeing the sketch of the knife embedded in the victims face, I did not connect the two but it seems to make more sense those injuries were inflicted that way than the killer wasting time to make 2 triangular cuts for no apparent reason.

Looking forward to reading and learning more here on Casebook.