How Much Credit to Police?

[Simon Wood]

Hi Fiver,

"How can there be a hoax when the police did not agree on if the Ripper was identified, let alone who the Ripper was?"

Listen to yourself. This was all part and parcel of the hoax. The cops each punted a different suspect [or suspects] so there could be no single train of official thought, no possible way of working out who was the Whitechapel murderer. I believe it's called deflection.

The solution to this mystery if far more complex than we ever care to believe.

Regards,

Simon

[The Rookie Detective]

The police performed similar to the utter s**t show that the senior officers at West Yorkshire police performed throughout the duration of the Yorkshire Ripper murders.

Many murder cases that remain unsolved, are as a result of poor policing and investigation wihin the first 72 hours after any given murder.

That applies now, and it applied then too.

[John Wheat]

Yes. I think because only those present at the identification and a few superiors would have been 'in the know' and those that weren't developed their own theories about the Ripper's identity.

I'm just not convinced by the theory that the Police new who the Ripper was but there wasn't the evidence to convict him.

[Scott Nelson]

So wrote Robert Anderson. But does Robert Sagar confirm this, assuming he's writing about the same suspect as Anderson?

[seanr]

Sagar's suspect seems unlikely to have been named Kosminsky.

[Doctored Whatsit]

I'm just not convinced by the theory that the Police new who the Ripper was but there wasn't the evidence to convict him.

And of course, only some of the police knew who the Ripper was, as all of the others had no idea whatever, or various totally different ideas of their own!