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I have a question regarding the Nichols murder.
Let's look at the location itself and some small but interesting facts associated it.
Bucks Row
Nichols was slain just yards away from Winthrop Street, the site of a Horse Slaughterers.
3 of the men who worked at the Slaughterers were later questioned and then excluded from enquiries.
As a horse slaughterer, a man would have needed some skill with a knife.
Forget gutting fish.
Let's talk about horses
So JTR choses (arguably) to slaughter his first (arguable) victim just yards away from a Horse Slaughterer?
Interestingly, the man who 'found' Nichols, the witness/suspect, Charles Lechmere worked as a Carman.
But maybe it's not his work that's necessarily relevant
It's the fact that his mother, Maria Forsdike, worked as a 'Horse Flesh Dealer' at the time of the murder.
She undertook this CHANGE of work at some point after 1881
Maria and her husband Joseph (Charles Stepfather) lived in Cable Street.
So, here's my outlandish theory.
Were the killings the result of some warped family business?
Maria worked in the Horse flesh dealer trade and her son was the man who found Nichols just yards away from a Horse Slaughterer.
What if Charles Lechmere took parts of his victims to take back to his mother and they had some warped trade in dealing with human remains under the guise of dealing with horses?
It is also rather interesting that the subsequent Pinchin Street Torso was found under a railway arch just yards away from where Maria Forsdike had lived previously.
There were other reports of human parts being put into pies
So maybe Lechmere was the killer and his mother Maria was the mastermind behind it all?
As an aside, if you look closely at the handwriting of Joseph Forsdike on his marriage certificate to Maria, his hand looks remarkably like that of the author of some of the written correspondences signed Jack the Ripper.
A family business
Thought, theories and onslaught please?
TRD
Let's look at the location itself and some small but interesting facts associated it.
Bucks Row
Nichols was slain just yards away from Winthrop Street, the site of a Horse Slaughterers.
3 of the men who worked at the Slaughterers were later questioned and then excluded from enquiries.
As a horse slaughterer, a man would have needed some skill with a knife.
Forget gutting fish.
Let's talk about horses
So JTR choses (arguably) to slaughter his first (arguable) victim just yards away from a Horse Slaughterer?
Interestingly, the man who 'found' Nichols, the witness/suspect, Charles Lechmere worked as a Carman.
But maybe it's not his work that's necessarily relevant
It's the fact that his mother, Maria Forsdike, worked as a 'Horse Flesh Dealer' at the time of the murder.
She undertook this CHANGE of work at some point after 1881
Maria and her husband Joseph (Charles Stepfather) lived in Cable Street.
So, here's my outlandish theory.
Were the killings the result of some warped family business?
Maria worked in the Horse flesh dealer trade and her son was the man who found Nichols just yards away from a Horse Slaughterer.
What if Charles Lechmere took parts of his victims to take back to his mother and they had some warped trade in dealing with human remains under the guise of dealing with horses?
It is also rather interesting that the subsequent Pinchin Street Torso was found under a railway arch just yards away from where Maria Forsdike had lived previously.
There were other reports of human parts being put into pies
So maybe Lechmere was the killer and his mother Maria was the mastermind behind it all?
As an aside, if you look closely at the handwriting of Joseph Forsdike on his marriage certificate to Maria, his hand looks remarkably like that of the author of some of the written correspondences signed Jack the Ripper.
A family business
Thought, theories and onslaught please?
TRD
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