Don´t you think it is strange that something that a gal like you, with no experience at all of witness confrontaions, interrogations and such (correct me if I´m wrong), easily manage to expose this lie, whereas Frederick Abberline was at a total loss in the same issue?
I think it is very, very strange.
I think it is very, very strange.
That is fact.
That Hutchinson could have got the day wrong, and Mr Astrakhan have existed but on another night, is only wild speculation on your part, and the implausability of it has been amply exposed on this thread.
As to why Abberline would have INITIALLY have believed that Hutchinson was
a bona fide witness was brought home beautifully by Ben in the opening of his article in the examiner : Abberline had been in the that room at Miller's Court with the body 'in situ'.
Try and use all your creative imagination to see and smell what that must have felt like ! Imagine the thoughts going through Abberline's mind as to what sort of man could have perpetrated that level of mutilation upon another person -and cold bloodily upon a defenceless young girl, at that.
Imagine a 'normal', charming, articulate Hutch sitting in front of Abberline, and him trying to equate that person with what he had seen in Miller's Court. What's more Hutch was a witness who had placed himself in the hands of the Police by his own volition.
Serial Killers aside -when I talk to people who have no knowledge about the former, they always say " the killer would have been driven 'mad' by that act", or he would have committed suicide. I think that it likely that Abberline felt that. Yet we know by studying other serial killers that it's just not true. I read the interview with the former Camp Commandant at Auschwitz
(who arguably did worst things on a far bigger scale) and it is self-preservation and self-justification all the way !
As to my own experience : here's a story that happened to me over this Christmas period...
At the beginning of December a 66 year old woman, with a stable and unremarkable private life, was found murdered about 10.30am on a Sunday morning, on a path leading from a busy-ish carpark to a quiet residential road on the outskirts of Avignon. She had had her face smashed in, with terrific force, against a stone placed by the council across the path.
She also had had a screwdriver rammed through her lower jaw. She had been dragged behind a hut housing electricity
cables to one side. She hadn't been sexually touched and she had about £50 in her pocket. Despite loads of blood over the stone, the first people to pass the scene hadn't investigated further.
Who do you think the Police looked for first ? An inmate from the local Mental Hospital, out on leave ! Well, it wasn't him !
After trawling through their records of DNA and fingerprints (corresponding to DNA samples on the body and fingerprints
on the skrewdriver) they arrested a man who, until a few months ago, was a close neighbour of mine.
There is no way that I would ever think of that man as a murderer -I knew him as a devoted father, who intervened in a horrified way when another neighbour became violent with his girlfriend, and who offered to carry my heavy shopping bags when I struggled out of my car with them. He wasn't 'a friend', but I would happily have given him a character reference.
According to the papers, he had a record (had done prison) for being a 'flasher' and sexually agressing women in the past.
His flat, car, etc were registered under other people's names, and he had obviously gone out with the screwdriver in his pocket for no explicable reason.
He continues (as far as I know) to totally and vehmently deny any involvement in the crime...yet both the DNA, allied to the fingerprints, concert to prove that it was him.
I imagine that, had Abberline interviewed him , -and investigated in our road about him- then there is no way that Sébastien
Malinge would be under lock and key today. If Sébastien hadn't been arrested, maybe the thrill would have made him do it again.
I only want to tell this story, Fish, because it shows what Abberline was up against: you can't tell if anyone is murderous,
crafty, violent, planning things, by interviewing them once or twice, nor by seeing them going about their daily lives, nor by questioning neighbours.
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