Rating The Suspects.

[The Rookie Detective]

I think the following article from 1896, and the fact it mentions Jack the Ripper, should be enough to confirm an authentic association/connection with Jack the Ripper and Feigenbaum...




The sheer mention of Feigenbaum in this context should allow him to be permitted into/remain on, the list of suspects on this thread.


Just my opinion of course.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I think the following article from 1896, and the fact it mentions Jack the Ripper, should be enough to confirm an authentic association/connection with Jack the Ripper and Feigenbaum...




The sheer mention of Feigenbaum in this context should allow him to be permitted into/remain on, the list of suspects on this thread.


Just my opinion of course.

Then should we should call Ameer Ben Ali a ‘ripper suspect’ because he was actually convicted and sentenced for the murder of Carrie Brown, Chris?

If you read CJ Morley’s suspect book he has over 500 names most of whom are just men who claimed to have been the ripper or who accused by someone of being the ripper. I’m not going to remove Feigenbaum from the list because I’ll just get post after post accusing me of doing it just because it’s Trevor’s suspect but I’ll say this….we apply various criteria to suspects and the absolute ‘should go without saying one’ would have to be ‘proven to have been in the same country at the same time that the murders occurred.’ We can’t say this for Feigenbaum.

[Lewis C]

I could even accept something less than complete certainty that he was in England at the time if that's clearly the most likely scenario. However, if someone lived in the US but could have been in England because he was a seaman, that's not good enough for me. But again, I have just as much of a problem with Sickert, who we know was in France on 3 or 4 days during the period of the 1st 4 C5 murders, and I believe no evidence that he ever left France during that period.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I could even accept something less than complete certainty that he was in England at the time if that's clearly the most likely scenario. However, if someone lived in the US but could have been in England because he was a seaman, that's not good enough for me. But again, I have just as much of a problem with Sickert, who we know was in France on 3 or 4 days during the period of the 1st 4 C5 murders, and I believe no evidence that he ever left France during that period.

I’m the same with Sickert though to a much lesser extent Lewis.

[Lewis C]

I’m the same with Sickert though to a much lesser extent Lewis.

I guess the counter-argument would be that Sickert was in France, but Feigenbaum was in the US, which is much further?