Jack The Rippers Real Name? Anyone Know Or Have Any Idea?

[Stewart P Evans]

Unfounded Speculation

Hi Stewart,
Sorry to bug you on a point again, but on the above, is it your belief that the reluctance of Levy to get involved as a witness might having something to do with his known relationship with a Martin Kosminski, and a possible familial connection to Martin with the man he and Lawende and presumably Harris saw with Kate?
My best regards

I do not believe that Levy's 'reluctance' was caused by anything more than the fact that he had been told by the police not to discuss the case before giving his inquest evidence. He stated, under oath, that "The man I should say was about 3 inches taller than the woman. I cannot give any description of either of them." To suggest anything more than that moves into the realms of unfounded speculation.

[perrymason]

I do not believe that Levy's 'reluctance' was caused by anything more than the fact that he had been told by the police not to discuss the case before giving his inquest evidence. He stated, under oath, that "The man I should say was about 3 inches taller than the woman. I cannot give any description of either of them." To suggest anything more than that moves into the realms of unfounded speculation.

Thanks for addressing that Stewart, I didnt feel it was anything more than that nor did I feel you would either, I was just probing a bit to see if you had been looking for anything tangible there perhaps.

Best regards as always

[lauren_ox]

To everyone that has criticized, im a 15 year old girl who is doing a project on Jack the ripper, is there any harm in that? and yes i have come back to my post.
dont say i cannot be bothered i can ive been very busy working on my project as its a gcse project!!

stop pointing out about my punctuation, seriously its a reply to a thread!

STOP CRITICISING ME!

[perrymason]

To everyone that has criticized, im a 15 year old girl who is doing a project on Jack the ripper, is there any harm in that? and yes i have come back to my post.
dont say i cannot be bothered i can ive been very busy working on my project as its a gcse project!!

stop pointing out about my punctuation, seriously its a reply to a thread!

STOP CRITICISING ME!

HI Lauren,

I dont see any harm in asking questions like you have, nor do I think many people who you feel are picking on you. Its just that some here respect the work that knowledge requires and want to be sure that anyone who is discussing these issue here understands that.

When youre discussing things here you do so with some people who are among the leaders of Ripperology, people who wrote the books others want you to read, people who have actually made some of the discoveries you can read about, and people who had spent decades studying these crimes and others.

Dont take a comment personally...few if any here will write something just to be mean. Try to remember that many here are the experts, and that its a real privilege to be able to ask questions directly.

So ask what you like.....we are all friends here.

Best regards Lauren

[perrymason]

okay so i was trying to do some research to find out his real name and/or who he was and some people said his name was really jack but some people was saying its not.

i have a feeling it was jack other wise where would they have got 'jack the ripper' from if his name wasnt jack, correct me if im wrong please

In answer to your first post........

Jack the Ripper is a name that was taken from a letters' signature, specifically "Dear Boss" dated September 27th, 1888, and sent to *Central News in late September 1888..... (*the Associated Press of their day, in London). It is a nickname....a pen name....a pseudonym....there is no "Jack" person who we can say committed the crimes. This murderer was thought to have committed 5 murders within 2 1/2 months in the Fall of 1888 in East London's Whitechapel/Spitalfield districts.

The person who wrote the letter likely chose the name Jack for a few reasons, there were other infamous historical murderers that used or were given that given name Jack...Springheel Jack for one. The Ripper part is obvious....at the time the 1st letter was written 2 women had already been terribly "ripped" open after they were killed. When the police made the letter public there had been one more "ripping" murder in Mitre Square.

Jack the Ripper, like Zodiak, and The Unibomber, and The Yorkshire Ripper are names that were given to killers who were unknown at that time. 2 of those crimes sprees were solved and someone was arrested and jailed, but Jack and Zodiak are still unknown murderers.

Best regards

[lauren_ox]

Anyone else watching Jack the ripper: killer revealed, on discovery channel?

The historian on there, believes he has uncovered who jack the ripper really was, Robert mann. (is that how it is spelt?)
Ive never heard of him as one of the suspects, has anyone else?

[lynn cates]

Mann

Hello Lauren. I think there are 2 or 3 threads that deal with Mann as a suspect. You might look under the "suspects" category--the very last sub-category under that.

Cheers.
LC

[Ashkenaz]

To everyone that has criticized, im a 15 year old girl who is doing a project on Jack the ripper, is there any harm in that? and yes i have come back to my post.
dont say i cannot be bothered i can ive been very busy working on my project as its a gcse project!!

stop pointing out about my punctuation, seriously its a reply to a thread!

STOP CRITICISING ME!

Hi Lauren. Welcome aboard, it's good to have a young person among us. There are too many crusty old farts in here,just ignore them.

[lauren_ox]

haha
thanks.

[perrymason]

haha
thanks.

I find it interesting and a bit annoying that youd thank the post that suggests we are old farts but not the one that offered support and some answers to your questions.

I do back the wrong horse sometimes. Good luck with your studies.

Cheers