Originally posted by Trevor Marriott
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The idea was mentioned in newspapers at the time that he might have been a sailor who went away to sea and came back.
I once went to the British newspaper library and looked at the newspapers from the period of the murders.
I looked at all the records of ships arriving in the Port of London and leaving.
The thing that struck me was how long it took for them to come back, even when they had only gone to a European port.
That's why I'm convinced that he was in London for the entire period of the murders and that he lay low following the double event.
I did read once that after the double murder, prostitutes we're going around in pairs, and this obviously would have made his job impossible.
He may have chosen 9 November because he thought that the police would be distracted by the preparations for the holiday.
I think he was just biding his time and waiting for the opportunity to murder someone indoors in a suitably secluded spot.
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