Coincidences

[Harry D]

Some of them are valid, but the "Mary Jane" stuff is the kind of tenuous filler you see in suspect-based books to pad them out. That was a common enough name, and it's not like the name was a trigger for the killer as only one of his final victims shared it.

You cannot put too fine a point on the timing. If you accept MJK as the final canonical victim, as many do, then Bury's sudden decision to up sticks to Scotland under false pretences (there was no job in Dundee) would certainly explain the sudden cessation of the murders. Ripper murders end in Nov (Dec, if you include Rose Mylett), Bury moves to Dundee in Jan, and within a month there's a Ripper-esque murder? And people think this guy isn't the best suspect.

[John Wheat]

There seem to be a lot of "Coincidences" with Bury. Bury moves out of London shortly after Mary Jane Kelly's murder. Bury matches all the major psyche profiles of Jack the Ripper. Bury kills his wife Ellen in a similar fashion to the Ripper. Strangulation followed by post mortem mutilation. Bury's mother and eldest sister were both called Mary Jane. The chalk messages found at Bury's Dundee home. James Berry his hangman believed he was the Ripper. Ellen was a known prostitute. Bury had vd caught from a prostitute. Bury has a number of attributive's which suggest he was a psychopath.