I think I have found him.

[David Orsam]

I wasn't asking you where the evidence is being held. I was asking you how it could be destroyed by you posting in this forum.

Pierre, any response to this?

I was asking how the evidence you refer to could be destroyed by you posting in this forum.

[Wickerman]

Adopt the old English idiom - Play the ball not the man!

[GUT]

Hi,
Absolutely.. I would for one, love to debate the ideas, not the person.
But what ideas ?
Regards Richard,

Agree

[evertonmarc]

I have been reading this site, on and off, for the last 10 years.

While I have not been a frequent contributor, I have always read the posts with interest.

One of the things I have enjoyed is the passion so many of you show in trying to solve one of the great mysteries of the last 150 years.

I have seen vigorous differences in opinion as you debate your personal theories about the Ripper. However, I always believed that no matter how vigorously you disagreed with each other, that you would still have a beer or a glass of wine with each other at the end of the day.

I thought this group debated ideas, not the person.

This is why I have been so disappointed in how this group has responded to Pierre’s involvement.

Pierre has a different approach to stimulate debate. He hasn’t presented a definite theory and forcefully argued his position. Instead, he has asked provocative questions that encourage us to think.

This approach can frustrate and irritate many people, which I can understand. Personally, I’ve found it interesting.

I believe any bulletin board needs to encourage diversity.

If someone irritates you, then simply click on their user name, add them to your “ignore list” then you won’t read their comments.

When I think about this site, and the other site, I think about some of the great posters such as Nemo and Chris Scott. I can’t remember either of them resorting into personal attacks.

Today, we awoke to the terrible news about the Paris tragedy.

Life is too short for the personal attacks.

We all share something in common in our interest in solving this 125 year old mystery.

Can we focus on that, and debate the ideas not the person ?

Craig

Well said Craig

[richardnunweek]

Hi,
Absolutely.. I would for one, love to debate the ideas, not the person.
But what ideas ?
Regards Richard,

[Craig H]

I have been reading this site, on and off, for the last 10 years.

While I have not been a frequent contributor, I have always read the posts with interest.

One of the things I have enjoyed is the passion so many of you show in trying to solve one of the great mysteries of the last 150 years.

I have seen vigorous differences in opinion as you debate your personal theories about the Ripper. However, I always believed that no matter how vigorously you disagreed with each other, that you would still have a beer or a glass of wine with each other at the end of the day.

I thought this group debated ideas, not the person.

This is why I have been so disappointed in how this group has responded to Pierre’s involvement.

Pierre has a different approach to stimulate debate. He hasn’t presented a definite theory and forcefully argued his position. Instead, he has asked provocative questions that encourage us to think.

This approach can frustrate and irritate many people, which I can understand. Personally, I’ve found it interesting.

I believe any bulletin board needs to encourage diversity.

If someone irritates you, then simply click on their user name, add them to your “ignore list” then you won’t read their comments.

When I think about this site, and the other site, I think about some of the great posters such as Nemo and Chris Scott. I can’t remember either of them resorting into personal attacks.

Today, we awoke to the terrible news about the Paris tragedy.

Life is too short for the personal attacks.

We all share something in common in our interest in solving this 125 year old mystery.

Can we focus on that, and debate the ideas not the person ?

Craig

[Robert St Devil]

I heard the man named Pierre
Say, Give me 'til end o'year
I can for a fact
Identify Jack
Or else i'm out on my rear.
(Or else i'm buying the beer. )
(Or else my work's all bum steer.)

[RockySullivan]

Nice. Heres one:

There once was a boy named Pierre
Who said I think I have found him o Dear!
But I just cant say who
till I find that last clue
And then I will tell you next year!

Here's another:

Pierre Pierre
full of despair
got his own head stuck up his derrière

[paul g]

Pierre

Hi Pierre and thanks for the reply.
I guess there is nothing left to say at this moment in time, and at the end of the day time will tell how genuine your original post was or is.
After much consideration I still stand by my asumption that this is a wind up or a spoof by a long term member. However I will wait until proven right or wrong. I have spent 39 years wondering who Jack was so another 11 months won,t harm.

If you are true to your word and you do post the results I will be the first to admit I was wrong bit until such time ...

Good luck.

[Abby Normal]

I wait and wait, with breath abate, for Pierrot's next epistle.

Alas I fear, within the year, for Jack we'll have to whistle.

C4

Nice. Heres one:

There once was a boy named Pierre
Who said I think I have found him o Dear!
But I just cant say who
till I find that last clue
And then I will tell you next year!

[David Orsam]

I wish I could tell you where this evidence is being held but I can´t.

I wasn't asking you where the evidence is being held. I was asking you how it could be destroyed by you posting in this forum.

[curious4]

I wait and wait, with breath abate, for Pierrot's next epistle.

Alas I fear, within the year, for Jack we'll have to whistle.

C4

[Pierre]

So let me see if I've got this right. If you post on this forum the name of your suspect then some evidence, somewhere, gets destroyed?

Is this a magic trick you have mastered?

Or is there a person holding the evidence who has threatened that, if you post the name, that evidence goes on the fire?

I wish I could tell you where this evidence is being held but I can´t. You will get to know when I´m finished with it. You can be quite sure of that.

Regards Pierre

[David Orsam]

The reasons I can´t reveal my theory before my work is finished are two: it might destroy evidence - and there is the ethical aspect of accusing innocent people.

So let me see if I've got this right. If you post on this forum the name of your suspect then some evidence, somewhere, gets destroyed?

Is this a magic trick you have mastered?

Or is there a person holding the evidence who has threatened that, if you post the name, that evidence goes on the fire?

[Pierre]

Excuse a bit Pierre, but the second point does not really make sense. If you are correct on your current theory, and you name guilty name (s), they are name(s) of dead people, not living ones. These people were active in 1888 or about that date. None would be still alive. So if you accused them, and were satisfied (in your own mind) about their guilt) but others argued against your final proofs, they are not really in a position to be personally insulted by your comments about them. That is unless you believe in an afterlife, and meeting these people when you have passed on as well.

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

No, I do not believe in the supernatural.

But I believe that someone did something illegal and very dangerous in the days of Jack the Ripper and that this could be a problem for England.

Regards Pierre