JTR as a disorganized schizophrenic lust murderer

[lynn cates]

I wasn't going to say anything, but . . .

Hello Scott. Is that because you consider Kosminski a non-starter?

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

Kosminski research

Hello Henry. Quite. But, as they say, research is ongoing.

Cheers.
LC

[DVV]

At any rate, as Gareth put it, the IWMEC would be a strange choice of place for prostitution.
LC

Hi Lynn, strange or not, the IWMEC was in Berner Street, prostitutes did solicit in Berner Street, and Stride, a known prostitute, was in Berner Street after midnight.

[Scott Nelson]

Hello, this thread is stupid.

(heh-heh)

[Henry Flower]

Thanks Greg, and Lynn. I thought so, but needed it confirmed. And that being the case, we'll never know just how clean he was with his knife. Although I expect that he was a fast learner, and may have been familiar with the use of a knife in some professional capacity in any case, who knows.

None of which ultimately helps us decide what 'type' of killer he is, or what 'type' of lunatic Kosminski was, and when.

[lynn cates]

blood types

Hello Henry. I think not. Did not blood typing begin a bit later?

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

starnge choice

Hello David. Not at all. But I believe you brought it up?

At any rate, as Gareth put it, the IWMEC would be a strange choice of place for prostitution.

Cheers.
LC

[GregBaron]

Useless blood...

Then we broadly agree, Lynn. But regarding the clean use of a knife, I have a question: in 1888 did the police have the scientific wherewithal to determine from blood samples whether or not the killer had cut himself with his own weapon, as so many first-time killers do?

No Henry. Blood was something to be quickly washed away. The authorities could gain nothing from it.

It has been suggested that the killer cut himself on Eddowes, hence the apron...


Greg

[Henry Flower]

Then we broadly agree, Lynn. But regarding the clean use of a knife, I have a question: in 1888 did the police have the scientific wherewithal to determine from blood samples whether or not the killer had cut himself with his own weapon, as so many first-time killers do?

[DVV]

That a conservative newspaper brand anarchists as "dangerous" is no big news, I must add.

[DVV]

Hello David. But that same snippet, as I recall, brands those Anarchists as dangerous.
LC

Does it change something regarding Berner Street and prostitution, my dear ?

[lynn cates]

organisation

Hello Henry. If you are saying that some of the killings, especially the first two, were a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I concur.

I also agree that their killer was not organised--at least, not with respect to planning. He did, however, know how to use a knife cleanly.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

anarchists and anarchists

Hello David. But that same snippet, as I recall, brands those Anarchists as dangerous.

Club Autonomie? Sure. IWMEC? (heh-heh)

Cheers.
LC

[DVV]

I'm not asserting any of that as *!fact

But you could, Henry.
Let's be serious, she has been killed by the man who afterwards killed Eddowes. No doubt at all.

[Henry Flower]

And on the subject of the girls working that area now - one sees less and less of it over the past decade or so, and I don't know whether that's because of the increasing gentrification of the area since I moved here [not that I mean to imply any causal link!], or because the make-up of the community around the Commercial Rd makes it harder for the girls to find clients in that area now.