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Christopher T. George
Organizer, RipperCon #JacktheRipper-#True Crime Conference
just held in Baltimore, April 7-8, 2018.
For information about RipperCon, go to http://rippercon.com/ RipperCon 2018 talks can now be heard at http://www.casebook.org/podcast/
Christopher T. George
Organizer, RipperCon #JacktheRipper-#True Crime Conference
just held in Baltimore, April 7-8, 2018.
For information about RipperCon, go to http://rippercon.com/ RipperCon 2018 talks can now be heard at http://www.casebook.org/podcast/
He was v nice to me, lifted the big wooden hatch and let me peer into his cellar!
"The couple still had with them the little boy, Willie, who sometimes slept in the shop and quite frequently in a foul cellar below the premises….it seems that the boy led a most unhappy and neglected life."
(Hargrave Adam)
... embellished by R. Michael Gordon, who added compulsion, rodents and maternal shortcomings to give the story melodrama: "Chapman showed his contempt for her son by having him sleep in a cellar below his barbershop, in the company of rats and filth".
Do you have any sense that Klosowski might have descendents? What happened to Willie, do you know?
All the best
Chris
Christopher T. George
Organizer, RipperCon #JacktheRipper-#True Crime Conference
just held in Baltimore, April 7-8, 2018.
For information about RipperCon, go to http://rippercon.com/ RipperCon 2018 talks can now be heard at http://www.casebook.org/podcast/
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