Was there a Police solution ?

[Monty]

Well that would be a fine thing, David. What one has to ask is how an unknown and uncaught serial killer can have a finite number of victims.

You're a thoughtful person. Think about that.

The same can be asked about uncaught multiple single murderers.

Goose and Gander I believe.

Monty

[DVV]

Hi Neil. I'm not sure what Stephen means, due to his proverbial laconism.
Could this refer to Macnaghten "5 victims only" ?
But there again, the Grainger episode proves they didn't "know" that the man was under lock and key.

[Monty]

And Stephen would be correct David,

However though I feel Macnaghtens bold statement on the number is questionable, I do see why he chose that figure.

That said, as established, the memoranda wasn't a case study but more a counter against Cutbush. The figures are irrelevant to it.

Monty

[lynn cates]

But it's only one.

Hello Neil.

"The same can be asked about uncaught multiple single murderers."

Perhaps, perhaps not. According to my pre-med students and rumours amongst nurses, we would be astonished at the numbers of seriously infirm/terminally ill who are quietly done for by family members, medical people, etc.

Not to mention husbands who do for their wives--wrong medicine, "household accidents," etc. Many an old Alfred Hitchcock yarn involved this motif.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

Hmm

Hello (again) Neil.

"I feel Macnaghten's bold statement on the number is questionable"

I think I love you.

"I do see why he chose that figure."

So do I. But a mistake is still a mistake.

Cheers.
LC

[Abby Normal]

Well that would be a fine thing, David. What one has to ask is how an unknown and uncaught serial killer can have a finite number of victims.

You're a thoughtful person. Think about that.

Because an infinite amount of victims would be impossible.

[caz]

Hello Caroline. I am suggesting that it was figured out later.

Cheers.
LC

Yes, but how could it be 'figured out' at all, when nobody had seen a killer in action, no incriminating evidence was ever found, no credible confession ever obtained...etc etc

Solutions in a murder case can't be 'figured out' like a maths equation.

The very best we could expect is that someone thought they had a solution, ie they thought they had figured it out, ie they thought they knew.

Love,

Caz
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[lynn cates]

math

Hello Caroline. I understand your position. And, yes, one could THINK the case solved. Then, such a supposed solution either was congruent with the case or it was not.

Congruent? Geometry? Ah, math! Maybe it works after all? (heh-heh)

Cheers.
LC

[Scott Nelson]

Not when it's incongruent.

[lynn cates]

suggestive

Hello Scott. Obviously. So, for example, you'll never hear me suggest any of that lone sexual serial killer business.
Cheers.
LC

[DVV]

The Pink Panther strikes in Whitechapel

It'd be funny to have a movie with a clever Inspector (not Abberline, therefore) investigating the ripper murders and being more and more convinced, murder after murder, that there is no serial killer around.
Too bad Peter Sellers is dead.

[Wickerman]

Solutions in a murder case can't be 'figured out' like a maths equation.

So why didn't you tell Mr Edwards that?



Regards, Jon S.

[caz]

I probably did, Jon. And knowing Ivor, he'd have given me a mouthful for my pains.

Trouble is, it applies to everyone who thinks they have cracked the case, whether they have a lone predator in mind or several individuals, each with different reasons for wanting to snuff out a specific Spitalfields unfortunate.

Without the kind of evidence that could have resulted in an actual conviction, all attempts to 'figure out' a solution will always remain just attempts, bolstered only by personal conviction.

Love,

Caz
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[towboydds]

DVV,

I cannot be 100% sure about anything in this case, but you do pose a question that leaves open questions upon which ever side one would choose to answer. Very nicely done.

[Fisherman]

As an item of fringe interest, I could of course offer the fact that when prime minister Palme was shot in 1986, one of the leading police investigators actually produced not one but TWO (2) "police solutions". Both Victor Gunnarsson and Christer Petterson were favoured by him, and he thought it a shame that the police was not able to put at least one of them away for the hit, apparently regardless of whom!

It makes me wonder how much stock we should invest in "police solutions" - some of them seem more directed to saving the behinds of the police than to finding the true culprit.

The best,
Fisherman