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mann's age would be my biggest concern,but as for the fbi's "expert" profiling,i am no expert on serial murder,fbi agent,forensic psychologist or what have you,but i have always thought that jack was in all probability,a local man,white male,youngish,25 to 40,and was most likely employed in a menial job where a knife was probably involved,fish porter,slaughterhouse worker etc..i don't think you have to be a genius to come to that conclusion. this man obviously knew the area,well,and was inconspicious enough to blend in easily with those around him.Last edited by Allan; 10-05-2009, 11:06 PM.
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Hello Maurice. Look on the bright side. We can post on some new threads and take a holiday from reading "The Cricketeer's Gazette" and close our "101 Polish Verbs Conjugated in all their Tenses." (snicker!)
The best.
LC
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At least Trow's suggestion that Robert Mann was JtR isn't as far-fetched as some of the other ideas we've heard. My major concern is Mann's age. I don't have access to my books at the moment so I can't check, but I have the impression that Mann was no spring chicken---rather long in the tooth to suddenly take up serial murder.
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Hey! I've been saying that Tabram was a victim for years. I want some royalties.
The famous FBI profile is a combination of common sense and formula. If the murderer was a local, then he was probably of the lower classes. As for the storied bad childhood, by today's standards who in Whitechapel had a good childhood?
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Hello Limehouse. Agreed. Life is what you make of it.
I looked up this chap. His testimony was given at the Nichols inquest. Seems rather harmless.
Cheers.
LC
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Quoted from this article:
Trow makes another startling conjecture, that the Ripper killed another two women.
He believes Martha Tabram, found with 39 stab wounds to her body in Gunthorpe Street, was the first of Jack's victims, and Alice Mackenzie, brutally murdered eight months after the confirmed five killings, was his last.
Startling conjecture? Hardly! I never read a ripper book yet that hasn't mentioned these two women as [I]possible[I] victims.
I also find the idea that the killer must have had a deprived background and eminated 'most probably from a broken home' slightly offensive. After all, many, many people growing up at this time may have been orphaned or suffered some sort of hardship and the great majority of them grew up as respectable adults. It does not automatically follow that chilhood trauma leads to abnormal behaviour in adulthood.
Nothing in this article is new, except perhaps for the name Robert Mann that just seems to have been plucked from the records to fit into the profile they have built for the killer in order to satisfy a 'psychological explanation' for the killings.
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