I actually think that - apart from Lechmere - Levy is one of the better suspects to have emerged over the last few years.
However, that does not mean that he is necessarily a good suspect. Most suspects that surface are poor ones in most respects.
I have read up extensively on your work on Levy, so Iīm up to scratch in that respect. What I find odd, though, is that you seem to argue both that he was a nutter, and so a likely killer, but also that he killed in his lucid moments.
It makes little sense to me.
It makes little sense to me.
Apologies if that is how my posts have come across, that was not my intention. I am trying to explain the idea that a few people have of a grunting, drooling basket case 24/7 is incorrect.
He had episodes of mania, spells of insanity, hearing voices, feeling the need to do violence if not restrained, wanders the streets etc. However he also would have been lucid when these moments were over able to perform normal tasks (this would eventually become less over the years.)
Although on that note, wouldn't it be interesting tot think he did commit them while he was lucid and not manic?!
Jacob Levy had reoccuring spells of "insanity", and spent a year in Essex County asylum in 1886, whereupon his wife was left to care for him afterwards. Once we have that diagnosis on him, and once we realize how troubled he apparently was, he becomes a bad suspect in my eyes.
I am totally with Errata on this - the axis 2 she mentions will be far, far more credible to have been the mechanism behind the Ripper killings as far as Iīm concerned.
So in spite of Jacob Levyīs relatively sound status as a Ripper candidate, he does not tick my boxes.
So in spite of Jacob Levyīs relatively sound status as a Ripper candidate, he does not tick my boxes.
Tracy
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