Originally posted by Pierre
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Anyway, before I do that, I will just say that the psychopathy part had nothing at all to do with why I suspect Lechmere. It is all grounded on the facts surrounding the case. QC James Scobie said that there is a prima faciae case against the man, suggesting that he was the killer. And Scobie said nothing at all about psychopathy. But the rest was quite enough!
If you are read up on Lechmere, you will be familar with Michael Connor. He was among the first to point a finger at the carman. One of his dissertations, he signed off by asking: "I wonder how he treated his horses?"
A typical trait with a psychopath is that he is oblivious of the pain he inflicts on other creatures. In a sense, I think that this was the fist suggestion ever made about Lechmere possibly being a psychopath, though Connor never spelt it out.
Please listen carefully now, for I will only say this once:
Grounded on the circumstantial and physical evidence, I am convinced that Charles Lechmere is by far the best suggestion we have for the killers role in the nichols case. He is also the probable Ripper, the way I see things.
If I am correct, then Lechmere could not have committed the murder in thousands of different ways. There is an exactituce involved in the material that allows for a very limited interpretation of how he would have gone about killing Nichols, and subsequently fooled Robert Paul, the police and the inquest. To my mind, only a psychopath would have done what I suggest that Lechmere did. So the psychopathy is secondary - but is is tied to the case as a demand. If Lechmere was not a psychopath, then he was not the killer and I am all wrong about this.
It also applies that the FBI have looked at the cases and arrived at the conclusion that there were traits of psychopathology on display at the sites.
Now, where did I put that gun...?
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