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  • Lewis C
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    Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post

    hi fiver
    thanks. checked out the thread.

    i think these types of candidates are artificially elevated on this list just because of prior violence/ insanity. ill just leave it with what i wrote earlier:

    my problem with candidates like hyams, the other lechmere, smith, cohen, stephen, (not even gonna mention gull, sickert or maybrick in this list as they are just ridiculous) is they have absolute zero connection to the case not even a tenuous one, werent suspected by the police at the time and cant be placed anywhere near any the victims or locations. they are concoctions and extensions of the crazy/violent guy/ jew theory picked out of the bag by later "theorists". seriously, you could literally find anyone out of thousands in london at the time and fit them up under this criteria as a "suspect".


    Hi Abby,

    We don't know whether or not Cohen was a police suspect. His suspect status is based primarily on the possibility that he may have been Anderson's suspect. Also, I don't see why having a known connection to the case matters, unless that connection in some way raises suspicions about him.

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  • Lewis C
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    Originally posted by GBinOz View Post

    Hi RD,

    While I don't have a suspect, I find Deeming to be an interesting person of interest. As well as his other qualifications he is the only convicted serial killer of whom I am aware. His father spent time in an asylum and he was known to have an excessive regard for his mother culminating in his belief that she was still guiding him after her death. He also had fanatical religious beliefs and was known in his youth as "Mad Fred". It is difficult to imagine how someone could visit upon MJK the horrific injuries that she suffered, but killing two wives and four children may very well have put him in consideration for such an atrocity. Yet somehow he rates below Kelly, who I observe as having escaped from an asylum and turning up decades later, with no detail between. Curious.

    Cheers, George
    George Chapman was a serial killer too, admittedly a poisoner rather than one who strangled and killed with a knife. He was only convicted of one of the murders, but I don't think that matters for our purposes, because there's little question that he committed three murders.

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  • Lewis C
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    Originally posted by GBinOz View Post
    Hi Herlock,

    I have just been reading this thread:



    In Post #3 Nemo, with regard to Grainger states:

    He was a persistent drunk and at least once entered an asylum for treatment of what appears to be delirium tremens, reported as suffering from hallucinations and a delusional mental state

    and

    Patricia Cornwell owns a clippings book which appears to be a collection of articles and notes from some type of investigator of the Ripper crimes in 1888
    In this book there is a note from around the time of the Annie Chapman murder which asks "Which regiment does Grant belong to?"

    Might these comments warrant an upgrade to categories D and E?

    I have also recently re-watched Robyn Napper's investigation into Deeming:

    Dark History: Australia's Jack The Ripper - Frederick Bailey Deeming was an English-born Australian gasfitter and murderer. He was convicted and executed for...


    Just before the 12 minute mark he discovers that Deeming's death mask was used as "the face of Jack the Ripper" in the Scotland Yard Crime Museum, possibly indicating an interest in him at the time. Might this warrant an upgrade in category E?

    For your consideration.

    Cheers, George​
    Hi George,

    Is there any reason to believe that the Grant referred to in the clippings book is the same Grant?

    I do think Grainger is a better suspect than most, but I have two problems with him. One is that I believe I remember reading that his whereabouts at the time of the murders are unknown, but he was known to have been in Ireland shortly before the murders began and shortly after they ended. So he could have come to Whitechapel from Ireland, committed the murders, and then gone back to Ireland, but to me, that doesn't seem very likely.

    My other issue with him is that his attack on a prostitute was much less skillful than what JtR did, and I wonder if he really would have lost that ability in the few years that passed between the murders and his attack.

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  • Abby Normal
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    Originally posted by Fiver View Post

    Odds are George Capel Scudamore Lechmere was just an attempted murderer, but his attempted murder by slitting the throat, as opposed to stabbing, is uncommon, so I think GCS Lechmere is a better suspect than most.

    I created a thread on George Capel Scudamore Lechmere, using newspaper accounts and old Bailey records. Geneaology records show barber/hairdresser GCS Lechmere was in and out of the workhouse. At the time of the murders he was living in Lambeth, so not super close. He tried to murder his wife in 1890 and did 18 months hard labor at Wormwood Scrubbs Prison. Only half of his kids made it to adulthood. The sons appear to have not married. The daughters emigrated to Australia.
    hi fiver
    thanks. checked out the thread.

    i think these types of candidates are artificially elevated on this list just because of prior violence/ insanity. ill just leave it with what i wrote earlier:

    my problem with candidates like hyams, the other lechmere, smith, cohen, stephen, (not even gonna mention gull, sickert or maybrick in this list as they are just ridiculous) is they have absolute zero connection to the case not even a tenuous one, werent suspected by the police at the time and cant be placed anywhere near any the victims or locations. they are concoctions and extensions of the crazy/violent guy/ jew theory picked out of the bag by later "theorists". seriously, you could literally find anyone out of thousands in london at the time and fit them up under this criteria as a "suspect".



    Last edited by Abby Normal; 12-03-2024, 11:17 PM.

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  • Fiver
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    Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post

    thanks fiver. herlock can we get that name updated on the list?

    fiver, if you really think he makes a good suspect, you should really delve into him more and see what you come up with! like can he be placed in wc during the time?, did the two lechs know each other etc.
    Odds are George Capel Scudamore Lechmere was just an attempted murderer, but his attempted murder by slitting the throat, as opposed to stabbing, is uncommon, so I think GCS Lechmere is a better suspect than most.

    I created a thread on George Capel Scudamore Lechmere, using newspaper accounts and old Bailey records. Geneaology records show barber/hairdresser GCS Lechmere was in and out of the workhouse. At the time of the murders he was living in Lambeth, so not super close. He tried to murder his wife in 1890 and did 18 months hard labor at Wormwood Scrubbs Prison. Only half of his kids made it to adulthood. The sons appear to have not married. The daughters emigrated to Australia.

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  • Herlock Sholmes
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    Originally posted by Fiver View Post

    I suggest dropping Sutton a pint on Age/physical health. Sutton was in his early 50s and his Royal College of Physicians minibio says that he was short and slightly deaf. Short people are at a disadvantage when subduing victims adn its harder for a slightly deaf person to hear approaching footsteps in time to escape undetected.
    I take your point Fiver but if I did that I’d also have to drop points for suspects like Tumblety and Maybrick who were both 50+. D’Onston was 47 so some might say ‘what difference would 3 or 4 years make?’ The deafness is also a very fair point to make but we don’t really know how deaf he was. It might have hampered him but it’s impossible to gauge how much? It’s a close call but I think I’ll leave it at that for the time being though.


    General point to all, I’ll always listen to comments and if everyone, or a large majority, tells me I’m mistaken then I’m always willing to make changes to any suspect. Unless someone suggests that Arthur Conan Doyle should go on the list of course.

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  • Herlock Sholmes
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    Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post

    thanks fiver. herlock can we get that name updated on the list?

    fiver, if you really think he makes a good suspect, you should really delve into him more and see what you come up with! like can he be placed in wc during the time?, did the two lechs know each other etc.
    Abby, I would have sworn that I’d already done it. One year added to my age and I’m all over the place.


    Amendment #11

    --- (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) (H) ---

    13 = 2 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Kelly, James

    11 = 2 - 2 - 3 - 0 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Bury, William Henry

    10 = 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 : Grainger, William Grant

    09 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Cutbush, Thomas Hayne

    09 = 2 - 1 - 4 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 0 - 0 : Deeming, Frederick Bailey

    09 = 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 : Hyams, Hyam

    08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Kosminski, Aaron (Aron Mordke Kozminski)

    08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Pizer, John "Leather Apron"

    08 = 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Lechmere, George Capel Scudamore

    08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 : Barnado, Thomas John

    07 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Chapman, George (Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski)

    07 = 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 : Tumblety, Francis

    07 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 2 - 0 - 0 : Smith, G. Wentworth Bell

    07 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Cohen, David

    07 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Kidney, Michael

    06 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 : Thompson, Francis

    06 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Levy, Jacob

    05 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Druitt, Montague John

    05 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Barnett, Joseph

    05 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 : Stephenson, Robert Donston (or Roslyn D'Onston)

    04 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Stephen, James Kenneth

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Bachert, Albert

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Cross, Charles (Charles Allen Lechmere)

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Hardiman, James

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Hutchinson, George

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Mann, Robert

    04 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 : Maybrick, James

    03 = 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Sickert, Walter Richard

    02 = 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Gull, Sir William Withey


    Legend:

    (A) Age/physical health

    . . . 2 = no issue

    . . . 1 = some issues creating doubt

    . . . 0 = serious issue/ could potentially eliminate


    (B) Location/access to murder sites

    . . . 2 = no issues

    . . . 1 = reasonable travel/possible doubt

    . . . 0 = serious doubt


    (C) Violence

    . . . 4 = killed woman (non-relative) with knife

    . . . 3 = killed female relative with knife

    . . . 2 = violence with a knife

    . . . 1 = violence without a knife

    . . . 0 = no known violence


    (D) Mental health issues

    . . . 2 = serious/violent

    . . . 1 = other

    . . . 0 = none known


    (E) Police interest

    . . . 2 = at the time

    . . . 1 = later (within 10 yrs)

    . . . 0 = none known


    (F) Hatred/dislike of women/prostitutes

    . . . 2 = yes

    . . . 1 = link to prostitutes

    . . . 0 = none


    (G) Medical/anatomical knowledge (inc. animals)

    . . . 1 = yes

    . . . 0 = no


    (H) Alcohol/drug issue

    . . . 1 = yes

    . . . 0 = none known

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  • Abby Normal
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    Originally posted by Fiver View Post

    George Capel Scudamore Lechmere was Charles Allen Lechmere's second cousin.
    thanks fiver. herlock can we get that name updated on the list?

    fiver, if you really think he makes a good suspect, you should really delve into him more and see what you come up with! like can he be placed in wc during the time?, did the two lechs know each other etc.

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  • Herlock Sholmes
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    Originally posted by Blackchapel View Post
    Herlock -
    The spacing issue in your Suspects Table is because 1) the default font is variable width and 2) the editor appears to save multiple spaces as a single space. Adding a header introduces a problem because the letters aren't the same width as the numbers below, and the extra spaces get squeezed out. To get around these issues in the example below, I've used the forum editor to change the font to "Courier New" which is fixed-width. I only changed the left side to Courier because it can be hard to read. The right side with names remains in the default font. Also, I changed the entire left side to bold, again because Courier can be hard to read. Regarding the issues of copy/paste through the iPad (and probably most other systems), that's a function of how "control codes" are transferred from one device to another. Generally speaking, control codes are invisible in the displayed text. Their functions can include turning on/off bold, italic, and linefeed/carriage returns. Often they will not transfer to a different device's editor during cut/copy/paste.

    I have a possible solution. When you wish to do a table update, open the forum message with the latest published version. Select and copy the table and legend (but no other text). Now jump to wherever you wish to add a message and "Post Reply". Immediately paste into the editor window. That way the copy/paste stays within the web browser rather than transferring to Pages and getting corrupted. Of course any other text you wish to add above or below the inserted table can come from any source including iPad Pages. I've tested this myself and it seems to copy correctly. You'll have to try it with your set-up to see if it works for you.

    Here's my latest effort. I welcome your opinion and thoughts.


    --- (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) (H) ---
    13 = 2 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Kelly, James
    11 = 2 - 2 - 3 - 0 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 :
    Bury, William Henry
    09 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 :
    Cutbush, Thomas Hayne
    09 = 2 - 1 - 4 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 0 - 0 : Deeming, Frederick Bailey
    09 = 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 : Hyams, Hyam
    09 = 2 - 1 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 : Grainger, William Grant
    08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Kosminski, Aaron (Aron Mordke Kozminski)
    08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Pizer, John "Leather Apron"
    08 = 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Lechmere
    08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 : Barnado, Thomas John
    07 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Chapman, George (Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski)
    07 = 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 : Tumblety, Francis
    07 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 2 - 0 - 0 : Smith, G. Wentworth Bell
    07 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Cohen, David
    07 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Kidney, Michael
    06 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 : Thompson, Francis
    06 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Levy, Jacob
    05 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Druitt, Montague John
    05 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Barnett, Joseph
    04 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Stephen, James Kenneth
    05 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 : Stephenson, Robert Donston (or Roslyn D'Onston)
    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Bachert, Albert
    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Cross, Charles (Charles Allen Lechmere)
    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Hardiman, James
    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Hutchinson, George
    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Mann, Robert
    04 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 : Maybrick, James
    03 = 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Sickert, Walter Richard
    02 = 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Gull, Sir William Withey​


    Legend:

    (A) Age/physical health
    . . . 2 = no issue
    . . . 1 = some issues creating doubt
    . . . 0 = serious issue/ could potentially eliminate

    (B) Location/access to murder sites
    . . . 2 = no issues
    . . . 1 = reasonable travel/possible doubt
    . . . 0 = serious doubt

    (C) Violence
    . . . 4 = killed woman (non-relative) with knife
    . . . 3 = killed female relative with knife
    . . . 2 = violence with a knife
    . . . 1 = violence without a knife
    . . . 0 = no known violence

    (D) Mental health issues
    . . . 2 = serious/violent
    . . . 1 = other
    . . . 0 = none known

    (E) Police interest
    . . . 2 = at the time
    . . . 1 = later (within 10 yrs)
    . . . 0 = none known

    (F) Hatred/dislike of women/prostitutes
    . . . 2 = yes
    . . . 1 = link to prostitutes
    . . . 0 = none

    (G) Medical/anatomical knowledge (inc. animals)
    . . . 1 = yes
    . . . 0 = no

    (H) Alcohol/drug issue
    . . . 1 = yes
    . . . 0 = none known
    One final request/suggestion.

    Is there a way that we could have the key to the legends above the list and across the page rather than vertical? The way it is creates a long post which requires someone reading it to keep moving up and down to check what C means and what G means etc. Basically could we have it something like..


    (A) Age/Physical Health…2=no issue/1=some issues creating doubt/0=serious issue, could potentially eliminate.
    (B) Location/Access to murder sites………and so on?

    Thanks again.

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  • Fiver
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    Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View Post
    Ammendments

    Henry Gawen Sutton - suggested by Dave (DJA)

    .
    I suggest dropping Sutton a pint on Age/physical health. Sutton was in his early 50s and his Royal College of Physicians minibio says that he was short and slightly deaf. Short people are at a disadvantage when subduing victims adn its harder for a slightly deaf person to hear approaching footsteps in time to escape undetected.

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  • Herlock Sholmes
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    Originally posted by Jon Guy View Post

    Hi Herlock

    Good work. Of course, Grainger is off the scale against most of those on the list.
    Re: the violence scoring - Grainger inserted his knife into a prostitute`s vagina on a Spitalfields street. This is actually more significant than if he`d killed his wife back in Ireland.
    Should really be more than 2 points.
    Hi Jon,

    Yes I think that I might have to do a bit of reading up on Grainger. I certainly agree with what you say about that horrific knife attack. There’s no way of quantifying it but it does appear to merit at least an extra 0.5 but I don’t want to go down that road.

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  • Fiver
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    Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post

    ah yes, the infamous other lechmere. i thought that had something to do with it. it would be interesting to know if they were related.
    George Capel Scudamore Lechmere was Charles Allen Lechmere's second cousin.

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  • Jon Guy
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    Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes View Post
    Ammendment #11


    --- (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) (H) ---

    13 = 2 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Kelly, James

    11 = 2 - 2 - 3 - 0 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Bury, William Henry

    10 = 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 : Grainger, William Grant

    09 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Cutbush, Thomas Hayne

    09 = 2 - 1 - 4 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 0 - 0 : Deeming, Frederick Bailey

    09 = 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 : Hyams, Hyam

    08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Kosminski, Aaron (Aron Mordke Kozminski)

    08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Pizer, John "Leather Apron"

    08 = 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Lechmere

    08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 : Barnado, Thomas John

    07 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Chapman, George (Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski)

    07 = 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 : Tumblety, Francis

    07 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 2 - 0 - 0 : Smith, G. Wentworth Bell

    07 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Cohen, David

    07 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Kidney, Michael

    06 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 : Thompson, Francis

    06 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Levy, Jacob

    05 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Druitt, Montague John

    05 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Barnett, Joseph

    05 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 : Stephenson, Robert Donston (or Roslyn D'Onston)

    05 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Sutton, Henry Gawen

    04 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Stephen, James Kenneth

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Bachert, Albert

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Cross, Charles (Charles Allen Lechmere)

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Hardiman, James

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Hutchinson, George

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Mann, Robert

    04 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 : Maybrick, James

    04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Le Grand, Charles

    03 = 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Sickert, Walter Richard

    02 = 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Gull, Sir William Withey


    Legend:

    (A) Age/physical health

    . . . 2 = no issue

    . . . 1 = some issues creating doubt

    . . . 0 = serious issue/ could potentially eliminate

    (B) Location/access to murder sites

    . . . 2 = no issues

    . . . 1 = reasonable travel/possible doubt

    . . . 0 = serious doubt

    (C) Violence

    . . . 4 = killed woman (non-relative) with knife

    . . . 3 = killed female relative with knife

    . . . 2 = violence with a knife

    . . . 1 = violence without a knife

    . . . 0 = no known violence

    (D) Mental health issues

    . . . 2 = serious/violent

    . . . 1 = other

    . . . 0 = none known

    (E) Police interest

    . . . 2 = at the time

    . . . 1 = later (within 10 yrs)

    . . . 0 = none known

    (F) Hatred/dislike of women/prostitutes

    . . . 2 = yes

    . . . 1 = link to prostitutes

    . . . 0 = none

    (G) Medical/anatomical knowledge (inc. animals)

    . . . 1 = yes

    . . . 0 = no

    (H) Alcohol/drug issue

    . . . 1 = yes

    . . . 0 = none known


    Ammendments

    Henry Gawen Sutton - suggested by Dave (DJA)

    Charles Le Grand - suggested by Lewis C

    George, Ive added a point to William Grant Grainger (D) but I haven’t done same for section (E) at the moment. If we could be sure that the investigator was specifically a police officer then I’d change it with no issue. It might have been a private investigator though. It’s intriguing nonetheless. Grainger might be a suspect that needs a closer look.
    Hi Herlock

    Good work. Of course, Grainger is off the scale against most of those on the list.
    Re: the violence scoring - Grainger inserted his knife into a prostitute`s vagina on a Spitalfields street. This is actually more significant than if he`d killed his wife back in Ireland.
    Should really be more than 2 points.

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  • The Rookie Detective
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    Originally posted by GBinOz View Post

    Hi RD,

    While I don't have a suspect, I find Deeming to be an interesting person of interest. As well as his other qualifications he is the only convicted serial killer of whom I am aware. His father spent time in an asylum and he was known to have an excessive regard for his mother culminating in his belief that she was still guiding him after her death. He also had fanatical religious beliefs and was known in his youth as "Mad Fred". It is difficult to imagine how someone could visit upon MJK the horrific injuries that she suffered, but killing two wives and four children may very well have put him in consideration for such an atrocity. Yet somehow he rates below Kelly, who I observe as having escaped from an asylum and turning up decades later, with no detail between. Curious.

    Cheers, George
    Excellent post George and I agree entirely with your Deeming assessment.

    With regards to Kelly; I recently discovered some new data on him that was previously unknown.

    I found him in the 1921 census working for a London Undertakers, under an alias that he was known to have used.
    He was living in North London at the time.

    And what's more, the Undertakers for whom he worked, is still operating to this day!

    I have often wondered if they have any archive personnel/employee records that may still exist. It's a long shot, but still possible nonetheless.

    My discovery confirmed that between his escaping incarceration and then subsequently giving himself in, he had spent time working in the funeral industry, and would no doubt have been exposed to the recently deceased on a daily basis.


    After several years of research, I have only managed to find 2 pieces of data, that were previously unknown, and which I can proudly claim as my own finds; the 1921 Kelly discovery mentioned above being one, and the other being my discovery that John Mccarthy had deformed feet.

    There's a newspaper sketch of Mccarthy and Bowyer appearing to look through the window of 13 Miller's Court. In the sketch there's a walking stick/cane, that i'd always assumed belonged to Bowyer.
    However, i now believe it's Mccarthy's Walking Aid and that his deformed feet just may have caused Mccarthy to have had a distinct walk; perhaps with some kind of gait or shuffle.


    Fascinating indeed
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  • GBinOz
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    Originally posted by The Rookie Detective View Post

    Yes, the fact that the police used Deeming's death mask and used it in the Scotland Yard Crime museum and labelled it as "the face of Jack the Ripper," is perhaps as close an indication we can get that Deeming was considered by some to have been the real Ripper.

    Otherwise, why go through the process of using his death mask in the first place?
    Hi RD,

    While I don't have a suspect, I find Deeming to be an interesting person of interest. As well as his other qualifications he is the only convicted serial killer of whom I am aware. His father spent time in an asylum and he was known to have an excessive regard for his mother culminating in his belief that she was still guiding him after her death. He also had fanatical religious beliefs and was known in his youth as "Mad Fred". It is difficult to imagine how someone could visit upon MJK the horrific injuries that she suffered, but killing two wives and four children may very well have put him in consideration for such an atrocity. Yet somehow he rates below Kelly, who I observe as having escaped from an asylum and turning up decades later, with no detail between. Curious.

    Cheers, George
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