To Know or Not to Know?

[Ms Diddles]

If it were the case that the killer was reicarnated and walked into a local police station today and confessed, there would be those researchers who would find a way to dimiss that confession, because to some ripperology has become and obsession, and the thought of it coming to an abrupt end is a terrifying thought, what would they do,where would they go with no casebook to sit watching and replying to every hour of the day and night?

www.trevormarriott.co.uk

I have no doubt that's the case, Trevor!

For myself, I would love to see it nailed once and for all.

Then we could all hang around on here analysing the big revelation and assessing whose theories were nearest the mark.

A kind of post mortem of ripperology itself!

I'm sure there would be a good few years worth of discussion in that!

[Guest]

I have no doubt that's the case, Trevor!

For myself, I would love to see it nailed once and for all.

Then we could all hang around on here analysing the big revelation and assessing whose theories were nearest the mark.

A kind of post mortem of ripperology itself!

I'm sure there would be a good few years worth of discussion in that!

Another case of interest is Zodiac. I watched a show similar to American Ripper where a man really believed that his estranged abusive father who had up and left the family and abandoned him was the Zodiac. They did a ton of research and it ended up proving that he wasn't the killer, but at the end, the son explained his drive and confirmation bias effectively, saying that in order to recover from the trauma of his father taking him from his mother and abandoning him to starve to death in a stairwell, he needed to be able to associate that experience with the kind of man he thought would be capable of doing such a thing. He needed his father to be a bad person because otherwise, he would be forced to feel like something was wrong with him and that his own flaws were why his dad didn't want him. I know what childhood trauma is like, so I don't fault him at all. His dad certainly looked very much like the Zodiac police sketches and had never come back, so it was a reasonable investigation.