Originally posted by Jeff Leahy
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Er, no, Jeff.
You provided a quote in which Roy Hazelwood postulated that the Ripper was a disorganized offender who used a blitz-style mode of attack. You also cited Bill Beadle, who believes that the Ripper attacked in blitz-style. Clearly you were attempting to imply the link of disorganized blitz attacker to Kosminski the disorganized schizophrenic.
The flaw in this line of reasoning, however, is that the Ripper did not employ a blitz mode of attack. The fact that he was seen with Kate Eddowes some distance from the Mitre Square crime scene demonstrates as much. So too does the lack of noise at the other crime scenes coupled with an almost total absence of defence wounds on the known victims.
Now you are saying:-
The way I've always used it and I presume how Bill Beadle is defining it, is that the women were caught suddenly by surprise when they reached the place they planned to have intercourse having no idea what there client would do. They were jumped.
Then it would help matters no end if you were to understand the terminologies you adopt before using them.
What tosh. Are you trying to argue that the average urban fox studied at Cambridge and is this years cox for the boat race.
You’ve responded with similar irrelevant nonsense on a number of occasions now. If there’s a point being made I’m struggling to identify it.
However I was quoting Hazelwood from the recent 'Scotland Yard Prime Suspect' where he writes the forward and there is nothing in that book where i find myself in strong disagreement with what he says
Really? Even the demonstrably inaccurate assertion that the Ripper attacked in blitz mode?
KOZMINSKI WAS THE SUSPECT
I’m aware of what Swanson wrote with regard to Kosminski the suspect, Jeff. What I asked you to do was provide some element of official confirmation that Kosminski was identified as Jack the Ripper. Once again you have responded to a question that was never asked.
Only Anderson/Swanson and arguably Monroe knew about the ID. MacANughten didn't have a clue, thus he favoured Druit
Pure speculation. Nothing more.
We don't know that Major Smith was talking about kozminski.
Yes we do. Major Smith stated that there was no evidence to implicate any Jew in the Ripper murders.
Any Jew.
This was the same Major Smith, remember, who orchestrated the round-the-clock surveillance operation on Kosminski. Thus he knew Kosminski and was almost certainly aware that Anderson was attempting to implicate him in the murders.
Stride almost certain was a ripper victim in my opinion. The murders are far to close together both in timing and location for there to be any real doubt.
As I stated previously, the difference in crime scene signature between Stride and the other victims was that of night and day. Were this a latter-day case no competent crime analyst would include Stride in the overall series. The evidence simply isn’t there.
Most of the arguments put forward to dismiss her tend to be in err, and I tend to quote Tom Wescott when claims like a different knife was used are raised.
So not only did the Berner Street murder deviate entirely from the Ripper’s established crime scene signature, but the assault of a victim in the presence of witnesses was unique to the Stride murder.
Even more damning for the Stride-as-Ripper-victim argument is the near-certainty that Eddowes was seen with her killer a short time later. Lawende and party were not racially abused by Eddowes’ companion, and nor did they observe anything in the way of drunken or menacing behaviour. In fact the conduct of this man was so markedly different from that exhibited by Stride’s assailant that it becomes difficult to imagine that they were one and the same individual.
All of which raises some interesting questions if Kosminski really was identified by Schwartz at the Seaside Home.
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