I think its highly unlikely that The Ripper was a police official.
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Originally posted by John Wheat View PostI think its highly unlikely that The Ripper was a police official.G U T
There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.
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Originally posted by Rosella View PostDoesn't Bachert say though, that this woman was 'an aquaintance' who the police had evidently mistaken for a prostitute. It could have been a woman who was hanging about on a street corner waiting for a friend or lover when the police nabbed her. That sort of misidentification wasn't exactly an unknown occurrence and the police had received some unwanted publicity in a similar situation (the Elizabeth Cass case) in 1887. I don't blame Bachert for being fearful of persecution and I think he did exactly the right thing in communicating with Lushington.Is it progress when a cannibal uses a fork?
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lee
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my only bug with the possibility of JtR being a police officer is the risk he took by switching murder ground (and police jurisdiction).
Which makes me think that if he was a police officer, he was a city police, and spend a lot of time in Whitechapel / Spitalfieds outside of work.
Frustrated by being interrupted while killing Stride, he went to kill someone else, but he needed to feel a bit safer, after almost getting caught. He spotted Eddowes as she came out of the police station and followed her.Is it progress when a cannibal uses a fork?
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lee
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Originally posted by Pierre View PostHi John,
why do you think that you think it is unlikely?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...killer-5866206
Regards, Pierre
Cheers John
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Originally posted by John Wheat View PostBecause it is highly unlikely the Ripper would be a policeman. The Ripper could have any job or be unemployed. Why would he be a policeman? The link to another case only proves that one serial killer was an ex policeman. If you ask me that makes it even more unlikely that another infamous serial killer would be a policeman.
Cheers John
Really!
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Originally posted by John Wheat View PostTo Fisherman
All I meant was the chances of two infamous serial killers being policeman are higher than the chance of one infamous serial killer being a policeman.
Cheers John
If that was not what you were saying, I apologize.
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Originally posted by Fisherman View PostTo me it sounded as if you proposed that since it was so unexpected that ONE serialist was a policeman, it would be stretching things even further to suggest that TWO could have been.
If that was not what you were saying, I apologize.
No need to apologise perhaps I was being vague with my original comment.
Cheers John
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Originally posted by John Wheat View PostBecause it is highly unlikely the Ripper would be a policeman. The Ripper could have any job or be unemployed. Why would he be a policeman? The link to another case only proves that one serial killer was an ex policeman. If you ask me that makes it even more unlikely that another infamous serial killer would be a policeman.
Cheers John
thanks for your answer. But I did not ask you why you think it is unlikely that the Ripper would be a policeman. I was asking why you think that you think so.
And the article illustrates that problem: They did not think that the serial murderer could be a policeman. Why do you think they didnīt?
And how do you think their beliefs can illustrate your own beliefs about a serial murderer not being a policeman?
Oh, and by the way, people thinking in this way must have been a great help to both Popkov and Jack the Ripper in his days.
Kind regards, PierreLast edited by Pierre; 01-09-2016, 12:42 PM.
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Originally posted by Pierre View PostOriginally posted by John Wheat View PostBecause it is highly unlikely the Ripper would be a policeman. The Ripper could have any job or be unemployed. Why would he be a policeman? The link to another case only proves that one serial killer was an ex policeman. If you ask me that makes it even more unlikely that another infamous serial killer would be a policeman.
Cheers John
Now if you admit that the Ripper could have had any job, it logically means he also could have been a police officer, don't you think.
Originally posted by John Wheat View PostTo Fisherman
All I meant was the chances of two infamous serial killers being policeman are higher than the chance of one infamous serial killer being a policeman.
Cheers John
I don't want to embarrass you. We sometimes get excited and want to add a quick response to a post. I'm not trying to defend Pierre either. It's just that logic is something important to me although I commit errors myself.
Respectfully,
Hercule Poirot
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