Is Bury the best suspect we have?

[C. F. Leon]

Excuse me, but isn't this supposed to be a Bury thread- not yet ANOTHER "Cross done did it" thread?

[Abby Normal]

Excuse me, but isn't this supposed to be a Bury thread- not yet ANOTHER "Cross done did it" thread?

yup. I tried too. i was ignored lol

[Geddy2112]

yup. I tried too. i was ignored lol

Remember all roads (threads) lead to Lechmere...

[John Wheat]

Remember all roads (threads) lead to Lechmere...

It's ridiculous really Cross gets so many threads and there is nothing whatsoever to suggest he was Jack and other suspects who may have been Jack get there threads highjacked by Lechmereians.

[Lewis C]

Newbie mentioned that he had more to say on the subject, and I ask of him that if he decides to do that, please do it in a Lechmere thread.

[rjpalmer]

Remember all roads (threads) lead to Lechmere...

In Newbie's defense, this thread invites comparisons between suspects. How is one to answer John's question, "Is Bury the best suspect?" without mentioning other suspects? There would be no point of reference.

Perhaps the whole premise of the thread is flawed. It's not really a Bury thread; it's a "my suspect is better than yours" thread, which (in my opinion) has limited value anyway.

Still, if one wants to go into great detail about a marginal subject like Tom Cross's alleged alcoholism, it's probably best to do it elsewhere.

[Lewis C]

In Newbie's defense, this thread invites comparisons between suspects. How is one to answer John's question, "Is Bury the best suspect?" without mentioning other suspects? There would be no point of reference.

Perhaps the whole premise of the thread is flawed. It's not really a Bury thread; it's a "my suspect is better than yours" thread, which (in my opinion) has limited value anyway.

Still, if one wants to go into great detail about a marginal subject like Tom Cross's alleged alcoholism, it's probably best to do it elsewhere.

Good points, RJ.

[Mark J D]

Not one word on my hypothesis that Cross sexually molesting his elder daughter was why she was living with her grandma?
There perhaps are other possibilities, but none that easily come to mind: ....schooling (probably not)? employment?

I have two vague possibilities in my 'devil's advocate' list...
(i) She helped look after her grandma's ageing and possibly ailing bigamous third husband (who died in 1889, IIRC);
(ii) She was useful in helping her grandma set up the family's cats' meat business (which we only start hearing about a couple of years later, but was likely begun earlier than that).

But my instinct -- like yours! -- is to say that the eldest daughter probably stayed with Gran for her own protection. I don't read a 'paragon' vibe in this family, at all, anywhere, ever.

Bests,

Mark D.

[Herlock Sholmes]

To keep going back over Cross’s family history in ever increasingly desperate attempts to turn him into a suspect carries no value. We have absolutely zero reason to suspect him. There are many mysteries in this case but one of the biggest is that there are people out there who see him as a viable suspect. It’s long past time that Cross got what he deserves; silence. A complete refusal to consider him a suspect. A child could see that he was a witness and nothing more. The ‘case’ against him has been invented by people with a vested interest in manipulating evidence and is continued by either the terminally gullible or people who just want to annoy those with a legitimate interest in the case. The whole Cross case reeks with dishonesty. It’s about time that people stopped dragging this subject through the mud for reasons of their own self-aggrandisement. If anyone thinks that Cross was the ripper then I can only suggest that they find another interest.

[C. F. Leon]

In Newbie's defense, this thread invites comparisons between suspects. How is one to answer John's question, "Is Bury the best suspect?" without mentioning other suspects? There would be no point of reference.

Perhaps the whole premise of the thread is flawed. It's not really a Bury thread; it's a "my suspect is better than yours" thread, which (in my opinion) has limited value anyway.

Still, if one wants to go into great detail about a marginal subject like Tom Cross's alleged alcoholism, it's probably best to do it elsewhere.

That was my intended point, RJ. It's one thing to respond to a post "Is Bury the Best Suspect (That) We Have?" with "No, because ...". It's another to repeatedly refer a relative's POSSIBLE medical history, which has only a tangential secondary connection at best with the original point.

Please do not hijack other people's threads with your own issues. Admin has said that they will be hard-ass about this.