Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes
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Inspector Du Rose made an almost identical claim about the London Nudes Murders.
He clamed to have narrowed down the pool of suspects to just three and that his prime suspect then committed suicide before he could arrest him.
The man who committed suicide was identified as Mungo Ireland, who was 10 to 15 years older than the man with whom one of the victims was seen shortly before her murder.
No policeman ever confirmed that Ireland was on any such short list.
In both murder cases, the suicide note made no reference to any murders.
Druitt's alludes to the date of his dismissal from his post at the school; Ireland was due to appear in court the next day for having failed to stop his car after being involved in a road traffic accident.
The claims made that Druitt and Ireland were suspected by the police during their lifetimes were, in both cases, fiction.
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