Alternative entrences / exits to #29 Hanbury crime scene?

[RockySullivan]

It's not like we are picking a random celebrity from the 19th century and hanging him as the ripper here....we are talking about a man who was at the exact spot where chapmans murder occurred with a knife in his hand. He changed his story enough times to warrant suspicion from the coroner and was allegedly investigated & "no suspicion could attach to him". Can you name any other suspect in the history of this case who had a knife out at the spot where a dead woman was found and then proceeded to change their story over and over?

[RockySullivan]

So you are saying that Richardson is Jack the Ripper?

edit: remember this is a real person. He may be long dead, and outside of this case, just another guy, but this is still his name and reputation we are discussing.

I'd advise not visiting the suspects section of the forum where you would likely be seriously offended by all the accusations and theories

[Jon Guy]

So you are saying that Richardson is Jack the Ripper?

edit: remember this is a real person. He may be long dead, and outside of this case, just another guy, but this is still his name and reputation we are discussing.

Hi Vincenzo

I`m sure the people here are just discussing the possibility of Richardson being the killer. After all, his presence there contradicts the Doctor`s TOD.
He even admits to having to remove women from the premises on previous occasions.

[Vincenzo]

I think witness accounts are the least reliable. Doctors using scientific procedure are likely to be more accurate? The doctors estimate was that Chapman was in the yard when Richardson was. Richardson happen to be right next to the body (if the doctor is correct) and he just so happens to have a knife in is hand.

So you are saying that Richardson is Jack the Ripper?

edit: remember this is a real person. He may be long dead, and outside of this case, just another guy, but this is still his name and reputation we are discussing.

[RockySullivan]

I think witness accounts are the least reliable. Doctors using scientific procedure are likely to be more accurate? The doctors estimate was that Chapman was in the yard when Richardson was. Richardson happen to be right next to the body (if the doctor is correct) and he just so happens to have a knife in is hand.

[Cogidubnus]

Who says Ms Long actually saw the victim and her killer...her ID was far from certain, and as I recall, her timing (0530) is somewhat out anyway if Cadosche is correct...but if the good doctor is correct then they're both out and Richardson's right in the frame...

[Vincenzo]

If Richardson was the murderer, then who was the man that Elizabeth Long saw talking to Annie Chapman before she was killed?

Was Mr. Richardson standing around in front of his mom's house with a deerstalker hat on picking up a prostitute to murder and gut in the back yard before he went to work? Ridiculous.

[RockySullivan]

By the look of it....it appears to be a rusty old butter knife with a broken blade

[RockySullivan]

Rubbish!

Gut is that a knife in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

[GUT]

Here's the thing....Richardson actually admitted he was walking around with a knife in his pocket. No one puts a knife in their pocket by mistake.

Rubbish!

[RockySullivan]

Richardson freely admitted lots of things; something a guilty person wouldn't do.

That's certainly not an accurate assumption Rose. For one, Richardson didn't admit anything at first. His story repeatedly changed....that's not what happens when someone's being honest. He couldn't even keep his lies straight.

[Rosella]

Richardson freely admitted lots of things; something a guilty person wouldn't do.

[RockySullivan]

Here's the thing....Richardson actually admitted he was walking around with a knife in his pocket. No one puts a knife in their pocket by mistake.

[RockySullivan]

Why is t a relatively good assumption?

There's no evidence Annie had used it before.

She might have said "here I know this lane" and he said "I know a better place the last grl took me, this backyard".

Just as good an assumption in my opinion.

Gooday gut, since chapman was well known at 29 hanbury it's highly unlikely the ripper led annie there unless she knew him from the building.

[RockySullivan]

Annie was known at 29 hanbury according to MRs. richardson. The circumstances of the murder imply the killer was intimately familiar with the yard and schedule of the tenants.