The Missing Evidence II - New Ripper Documentary - Aug 2024

[Fiver]

Not even from the YouTube 'House of Tenuous Links' channel, surely some proof can be gathered from that?

Definitely not from there.

Here's my response to Part 4.

There's some legitimate geneological research. There's also the nonsense of claiming John Allen Lechmere was not a bigamist, while his wife was. And I rolled my eyes at "known to some as Old Ma Lechmere" - nobody would have called her that in her lifetime.

There's also pure speculation like "this is largely a tale of resentment, a frustrated sense of entitlement". And outright lies like "luck and fortune had fallen all around, but missed one target Charles Allen Lechmere". Fortune had missed lots of Lechmeres, but Charles Allen Lechmere went from carman to running his own business and left his family 262 pounds. In contrast with his cousin George Capel Scudamore Lechmere, who is mentioned on the video, an alcoholic, mostly unemployed barber who was in and out the workhouse who tried to kill his wife by slitting her throat and did time for it.

In the end, the video shows no evidence, let alone evidence of guilt in the Ripper killings.

And my response to Part 5.

If you're interested in random trivia, circular reasoning and speculation, this is the video for you.

If you're interested in evidence, let alone evidence of guilt, they're completely absent from this video.

"The leading suspect"?

Who ever coined the name Jack The Ripper might have been inspired by tales of Springheeled Jack? That's been suggested at least as far back as 2005.

Charles Lechmere might have read penny dreadfuls? Just like every other kid.

There was a bookseller named Charles Fox over two miles away from where CAL lived?

The possible body of the Ratcliffe Highway murderer was unearthed in 1886? An event that happened when Lechmere was 37 was an influence on him growing up?

A tiger escaped in 1857 near on Betts Street?

Thirty years later CAL's children attended school on Betts Street?

Speculating that "Lipski" was shouted at BS Man instead of by him, piled on speculation that the shouter was Lechmere?

Graffiti near the Pinchin Street Tirso said "Lipski"?

"probative connections"?

More false accusations of bigamy.

Hearing these stories of violence is evidence of guilt? Based on that reasoning everybody in the East End was the Ripper.

[Geddy2112]

Nothing new Geddy.

Not even from the YouTube 'House of Tenuous Links' channel, surely some proof can be gathered from that?

Someone should do a response documentary called The Manipulated Evidence: Why Charles Cross Is An Awful Suspect.

Fancy it, I'm game haha

[Herlock Sholmes]

No it's not in the pipeline, that I'm aware of but if it was would the outcome be the same?

Some issues I had with it...

1) The animations showing Lechmere basically on top of poor Polly, we know from statements this is not the case so more 'middle of the road.'

2) KC Scobie's part in the production that Christer so vehemently relies on. We hear Scobie was mislead, if true what can be added to allow him the bigger picture?

3) Has anything come to light in the last few years that would allow the documentary to NOT finger Lechmere in the crime?

Nothing new Geddy. We knew then that it was a case built on sand and nothings changed. If it was done honestly they would have to completely remove any suggestion of a proven gap and admit that the ‘about’ was deliberately left out to manufacture it. They would also have to admit that the evidence that Baxter was using points to a discovered time of near to 3.40 and certainly not the 3.44/3.45 that Christer has tried to manipulate the evidence to. They would have to admit that if Cross killed Nichols around 15/20 minutes before being due at work and then ignored the opportunity to flee (bloodied knife in pocket) to wait for a stranger to arrive it would make him entirely unique. They would have to answer this - if you suggest that there was a 7 or 8 minute ‘gap’ before Paul arrived then what the hell was Cross doing given that the murder would have taken him two minutes tops. They would have to admit that Cross gained absolutely no advantage from using his stepfathers surname to the ‘name thing’ is nonsense. And they would have to point out any other serial killer that only killed at sites that he had a familial link to.

Basically they would have to admit that the case against Cross has been entirely created and that the documentary was aimed at people that didn’t know the facts. Someone should do a response documentary called The Manipulated Evidence: Why Charles Cross Is An Awful Suspect.

[Geddy2112]

No it's not in the pipeline, that I'm aware of but if it was would the outcome be the same?

Some issues I had with it...

1) The animations showing Lechmere basically on top of poor Polly, we know from statements this is not the case so more 'middle of the road.'

2) KC Scobie's part in the production that Christer so vehemently relies on. We hear Scobie was mislead, if true what can be added to allow him the bigger picture?

3) Has anything come to light in the last few years that would allow the documentary to NOT finger Lechmere in the crime?