Well, I thought that was me up to date with all the Hutchinson stuff, but then - oh dear! - what should I find buried deep within a "Black Magic" thread, but this from Fisherman:
Dealing with the first mentioned, the crucial and obvious difference is that finding a body is a completely inevitable event. It had to fall to someone to encounter the body at some stage, and at that hour of the morning, the people most likely to be up and about were policemen on beat or early workers such as carmen. There is nothing so unsuspicious as an inevitable event such as finding a body. Whereas loitering opposite a crime scene shortly before the crime occurred, as Hutchinson most probably did, can be described as suspicious behaviour with far more justification, given the known serial killers who have done precisely that.
Cross did not use a "false" name. He used his stepfather's name - an actual name, by which he had actually been called.
Your third "point" is the most ridiculous of the four. Hutchinson was discredited because he was suspected of lying, whereas Cross was treated as an honest witness throughout. Cross attended the inquest, whereas Hutchinson didn't. Hutchinson waited three days and only came forward after the inquest finished, whereas Cross didn't. Cross's evidence is straighforward and not overladen with implausible detail, whereas Hutchinson...
I think you get the picture.
As for the last one, I can scarcely believe what I'm reading. Cross "had reason" to walk past those streets from outside the killing fields. Terrific. How knicker-soilingly suspicious. Hutchinson lived right in the heart of where the murders were being committed. He had only to put one foot outside his front door and he was "walking the streets where the victims were found".
Dan Norder's post from six years ago still holds true:
Don't pick these sorts of fights in future, please.
Or at the very least, pick one on a weaker theory.
It is speculated that Hutchinson was alone with one of the victims.
we KNOW, however, that Lechmere WAS alone with one of the victims.
It is speculated that Hutchinson used a false name.
We KNOW, however, that Lechmere did this.
It is speculated that Hutchinson lied to the police.
We KNOW, however, that the inquest recordings clearly suggest that Lechmere did precisely this.
It is speculated that Hutchinson will have walked the streets where the victims were found.
We KNOW, however, that Lechmere had both professional and social reasons to do so.
we KNOW, however, that Lechmere WAS alone with one of the victims.
It is speculated that Hutchinson used a false name.
We KNOW, however, that Lechmere did this.
It is speculated that Hutchinson lied to the police.
We KNOW, however, that the inquest recordings clearly suggest that Lechmere did precisely this.
It is speculated that Hutchinson will have walked the streets where the victims were found.
We KNOW, however, that Lechmere had both professional and social reasons to do so.
Cross did not use a "false" name. He used his stepfather's name - an actual name, by which he had actually been called.
Your third "point" is the most ridiculous of the four. Hutchinson was discredited because he was suspected of lying, whereas Cross was treated as an honest witness throughout. Cross attended the inquest, whereas Hutchinson didn't. Hutchinson waited three days and only came forward after the inquest finished, whereas Cross didn't. Cross's evidence is straighforward and not overladen with implausible detail, whereas Hutchinson...
I think you get the picture.
As for the last one, I can scarcely believe what I'm reading. Cross "had reason" to walk past those streets from outside the killing fields. Terrific. How knicker-soilingly suspicious. Hutchinson lived right in the heart of where the murders were being committed. He had only to put one foot outside his front door and he was "walking the streets where the victims were found".
Dan Norder's post from six years ago still holds true:
Don't pick these sorts of fights in future, please.
Or at the very least, pick one on a weaker theory.
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