Originally posted by m_w_r
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Think nothing of it. This must be the most frustrating investigation ever. It is not surprising that people are sometimes a litle short tempered.
As I'm sure you'll agree,we should leave no stone unturned. My idea is a long shot, but it might just be that the geographical profiler is correct in his theory. If this is so, and jtr was offending long before 1888, it might just be that he was indeed living in one of those streets, and was recorded on the census of 1881.
A long shot yes. But just imagine if he was ! And one of just 183 people !
It was indeed a happy accident that took the Yorkshire Ripper, but sometimes long shots come in. Even at 14000000/1 someone usually wins the UK lottery each week !
Good luck

If you have a pet theory, like, JtR stopped killing because he got on a boat and went to New Zealand or whatever, then you can check all those residents who, right after 1888, bailed to NZ. It'd give some focus to your enquiries, anyhow (not the NZ thing, just having a hypothesis to test). Me, I don't think he stuck around. So I'd exclude those (for the first go round) who appear on both censuses. Then, as you disprove hypotheses, you can delete names.
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