Who do you think Jack the Ripper was and why?

[Abby Normal]

Henry Gawen Sutton was Jack the Ripper.

He was being blackmailed by five of his patients.

It is all there on the Internet,if you wish to work it out for yourselves.

Thanks DJA
at least you have the decency to name your suspect!
Why was he being blackmailed?
why the extra mutilation and organ removal?

Please feel free to expound on your theory-the more detail the better!

[DJA]

Henry Gawen Sutton was Jack the Ripper.

He was being blackmailed by five of his patients.

It is all there on the Internet,if you wish to work it out for yourselves.

[Wickerman]

I don't think it worked that way. The reward wasn't some "dead or alive" poster.


Plus maybe the ones who did him didn't want to attract to much attention to themselves.

Btw, it's pure hypothesis. I have nothing to back this up.

Thats ok, :-)
Your reply to the thread question didn't include the "why", and I was really wondering what your "why" was.
When anyone offers a theory or belief, the reason why is to me just as important as the "what".

I just like to know what it is that makes people form a belief, what their belief is based on, thats all.

[SirJohnFalstaff]

Do him in rather than expose him, and claim the reward?

I don't think it worked that way. The reward wasn't some "dead or alive" poster.


Plus maybe the ones who did him didn't want to attract to much attention to themselves.

Btw, it's pure hypothesis. I have nothing to back this up.

[Wickerman]

I like to think some people got rid of him when they found out.

Do him in rather than expose him, and claim the reward?

[SirJohnFalstaff]

Yet, he stopped?

I like to think some people got rid of him when they found out.

[lynn cates]

never existed

Hello GUT. Or never existed in the first place.

Cheers.
LC

[GUT]

Yet, he stopped?

Or died.

[Wickerman]

Some thug from Spitalfields who discovered a penchant for mutilation.

Yet, he stopped?

[GUT]

Some thug from Spitalfields who discovered a penchant for mutilation.

Yep I agree.

[SirJohnFalstaff]

Some thug from Spitalfields who discovered a penchant for mutilation.

[Mayerling]

the funny thing is most people not in the know think the ripper was fiction and Sherlock holms was real.

And several writers suggest Holmes did solve the Ripper Case (William Baring Gould said it was a Scotland Yard Inspector who had worked on a few cases with Holmes), while others have even suggested Holmes or Watson was the Ripper.

None, however, suggested it was Father Brown or Dr. John Evelyn Thorndike.

I still think the most likely type of Ripper suspect was a resident in the Whitechapel or East End area, thoroughly at home with the main streets, back streets and alleyways, and squares, and having an idea of when police made their rounds. Outside of those points I couldn't say.

Jeff

[Abby Normal]

True. I have read that one of the protesters against the Jack the Ripper Museum referred to Jack as "a fictional character"! Soon people will think he only existed in horror movies based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson...

the funny thing is most people not in the know think the ripper was fiction and Sherlock holms was real.

[Pcdunn]

And some dispute that.

True. I have read that one of the protesters against the Jack the Ripper Museum referred to Jack as "a fictional character"! Soon people will think he only existed in horror movies based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson...

[Abby Normal]

Give me one name and an explanation as to why you think it was that suspect.


Parker

Hi parker

George Hutchinson.

Stalking behavior.
Last credible suspect with Mary before/around TOD.
Dubious claim of another suspect-A-man.
waited till after inquest to come forward.
short/stout (per sarah lewis)-like many other witness descriptions.
Local avg joe-like most serial killers are.
Probably single
Aussie George article.


If not Hutch, than Blotchy.