The 'Dartmoor' Suspect

[Cap'n Jack]

I thought him to be the perfect age.

[revpetero]

Definitely got hold of a candidate for serial nutcase killer. Just too young? if we go by common theories and supposed witnesses. JTR jnr?

[Cap'n Jack]

Sometime shortly after 1888, Joseph Holland - aka Joseph Frederick Pearson - found himself locked up in Dartmoor for five years. He was quite mad.
Bouncing around from asylum to asylum he was eventually detained at HMP in Broadmoor for murdering a woman unknown to him by cutting her throat and mutilating her with a hammer. This was in 1896 when he was 27.
What sort of caught my eye though was his ravings about a 'coin table' and his attempts to use arithmetic to explain things.