The FBI Profile of Jack the Ripper & it's usefulness

[GUT]

One of the oddities throughout the series is that none of the victims were found with any money on them.

Edit: Ah, my mistake. I forgot about the farthings.

G'day Jon

Is that so odd though given their situation in life.

Prostituting themselves for a couple of p and, I imagine, spending it on booze, food or a bed as soon as they got it.

[Wickerman]

One of the oddities throughout the series is that none of the victims were found with any money on them.

Edit: Ah, my mistake. I forgot about the farthings.

[SirJohnFalstaff]

This point interests me and reminds me of the Green River Killer. But outside of Leather Apron I can't think of suspects generated from working girls' chatter.

Maybe he didn't attack them. He just appeared as a client who changed his mind.

Funny, I was about to type "maybe he just paid for sex and left" but somehow, I don't see it. Maybe I saw too many Hollywood movies.

[lynn cates]

enough

Hello Barnaby. Perhaps one is sufficient?

Cheers.
LC

[Barnaby]

5- There would have been many other women who confronted JtR and were not assaulted because the location was not secure enough.

This point interests me and reminds me of the Green River Killer. But outside of Leather Apron I can't think of suspects generated from working girls' chatter.

[lynn cates]

oblivious

Hello Colin. Thanks.

"What is the likelihood of something putting their head out of the window and looking downwards in the middle of the night or very early morning?"

Sunrise, perhaps? Although I'm not quite sure how to calculate such events, I'd say rather high.

"Could you look out of that window and see a man standing in the yard of No.29?"

Possibly. But my point is, Would the slayer know that? And so my overarching position is that the killer is oblivious to time and space. Ergo, insane--or perhaps a millenial. (heh-heh)

Cheers.
LC

[Bridewell]

Hello Colin. Thanks.

Well, the one almost directly above the door might do. Don't forget that her head was not quite to the steps and she was about 5 feet. So the view from there should be unimpeded.

What is the likelihood of something putting their head out of the window and looking downwards in the middle of the night or very early morning?

Oh, and those next door might do nicely too.

Cheers.
LC

Could you look out of that window and see a man standing in the yard of No.29? If he was a six-footer perhaps but somebody of the height of the man seen by Mrs Long? I would have thought not. Even if you saw the man, you wouldn't see the body so how much notice would you take? Cadosch seems to have been up and about, even walked through the door and down the steps - but saw nothing.
I can see that it's possible that he might be seen, but highly unlikely surely?

[lynn cates]

knowledge

Hello Jon. Thanks.

Even if true, not sure the killer would have known?

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

windows on the world

Hello Colin. Thanks.

Well, the one almost directly above the door might do. Don't forget that her head was not quite to the steps and she was about 5 feet. So the view from there should be unimpeded.

Oh, and those next door might do nicely too.

Cheers.
LC

[Wickerman]

Hello Colin. Thanks.

Recognition? Just look out a back window.

Cheers.
LC

I wouldn't be at all sure you could see daylight out of those windows.

[Bridewell]

Hello Colin. Thanks.

Recognition? Just look out a back window.

Cheers.
LC

Which window would afford a view of a man crouched over a body by the steps? One the way in he could always abort the killing if seen. On the way out he would not be challenged - no-one would know a murder had taken place. Minimal risk unless he was seen and recognised IMHO.

[lynn cates]

recognition

Hello Colin. Thanks.

Recognition? Just look out a back window.

Cheers.
LC

[Bridewell]

Hello CD. Thanks.

It might indeed. Of course, Sir John's observation involved security. I was merely pointing out that there seems little at Hanbury.

Cheers.
LC

Only one avenue of escape, but also only one avenue of approach by a potential threat - and the killer was armed with a knife. Escape was a near certainty to my mind; recognition would be the greater risk.

[Lechmere]

By that definition whoever it was must have been a lunatic to have killed on the landing of George Yard Buildings, Mitre Square and Castle Alley.
I see a pattern forming.

[lynn cates]

lunatic

Hello Sir John. Thanks.

"I think he thought so."

Hmm, must have been a lunatic to think that.

"That is, if we accept the idea of a single killer for the C5 or +"

For which I see no reason.

Cheers.
LC