(yet another) New suspect

[stthrobber]

I'm currently reading this book and as a new addition to the forums here I can say I'm not overly impressed by it.

For instance he claims to have killed Martha Tabram with a scalpal and a Malayan dagger, yet the coroner's report suggests a pen knife was used for one wound only.

I also find it a bit glib and vague, particularly when names and locations that could be used to verify his claims are glossed over with a "to protect" kind of disclaimer.

I have yet to read anything in the book that was not common knowledge, or that couldn't have been gleaned from information available at the time. I'm about halfway through now and am, to say the least, dubious

[curious]

Larry the lamb and Dennis the dachshund are my first media memories!
Little did the little me know I'd grow up to find I was being entertained by a ripperologist. Must be his fault I turned out this way.

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Maybe he used subliminal messages -- a man ahead of his time. Those subliminal messages are for more than getting you to buy extra sodas and popcorn at the drive in.

[curious4]

subliminal messages

Ah yes! The organgrinder - it was the monkey what dunnit! Actually, I believe that was suggested at the time, although the animal in the Rue Du Morge was an orangutang, I think. lol

C4

[Bridewell]

It's Not Impossible

A uniped ! No wonder he could hop so silently from the crime scenes...

He wouldn't be the only one-legged killer. Remember Michael Sams?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-michael-sams-trial-kidnapper-who-killed-teenager-is-jailed-for-life-jury-told-of-an-obsessive-characters-cruel-campaign-to-extract-ransoms-and-outwit-his-pursuers-1483709.html

[Robert]

I suppose the one-legged man, after slaughtering Kelly, gave her a shove, cried "You're it" and hopped nimbly off into the night.

[Wickerman]

.... Indeed, Beaman was Martin Fido's favourite writer when Martin was 6 .....

My goodness, does anyone have a favourite writer at 6 years old?, I can't even remember reading anything when I was 6.

Larry the lamb and Dennis the dachshund are my first media memories!

So now we can safely add, ...Jack Russell the terrier of Mitre Square?

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I have yet to read anything in the book that was not common knowledge, or that couldn't have been gleaned from information available at the time.

I guess the question we must ask (those who might take it seriously), is what 'factual' information was publicly available in the 1920's.
The work by Leonard Matters, The Mystery of Jack the Ripper, 1929, comes to mind. If that is the best example then the answer to the question is, "not much".

He wouldn't be the only one-legged killer.

We might recall the suspect seen by Mrs Kennedy walked with "an awkward gait".
Another suspect was seen with a knife blade protruding from his jacket and he walked "as if he had stiff knees".

Regards, Jon S.