Charles Lechmere: Prototypical Life of a Serial Killer

[Herlock Sholmes]

"President Trump"

[Herlock Sholmes]

When people bring that nonsense up, I ask them how many facts they know about their great-great-grandfather. Do they even know his name?

What next? Surely they can’t find anything sillier? Then again.

[Abby Normal]

"Kosher bacon"?

lol. i saw an interview with jim morrison once and they were asking him about a film he was working on and he gave a little smile and said... Its kind of like a fictional documentary hahaha

[Sam Flynn]

I remember years ago stupidly buying Pamela Ball's psychic investigation book.

... she should sooooooo have changed her name to "Krystal"

[FrankO]

... she should sooooooo have changed her name to "Krystal"

[Herlock Sholmes]

... she should sooooooo have changed her name to "Krystal"

A missed opportunity.

[Dickere]

A missed opportunity.

Crystal Waters, the singer, it's her real name.

[rjpalmer]

Once we add in how coroner Baxter later moved the finding of the body out of the 3.40 time slot into the 3.45 ditto, we get another picture.

In reference to Christer's strange reliance on Wynne Baxter's statement about when the body was discovered, let's remind ourselves what Baxter said about the Tabram murder in the same summation:

"Martha Tabram was found at three a.m. on Tuesday, August 7th, on the first-floor landing of George Yard buildings, Wentworth Street, with thirty-nine punctured wounds on her body." --Wynne Baxter, Daily Telegraph, 24 September.


In reality, Martha Tabram was found at around 4:45 a.m. by John Saunders Reeves.

[Herlock Sholmes]

In reference to Christer's strange reliance on Wynne Baxter's statement about when the body was discovered, let's remind ourselves what Baxter said about the Tabram murder in the same summation:

"Martha Tabram was found at three a.m. on Tuesday, August 7th, on the first-floor landing of George Yard buildings, Wentworth Street, with thirty-nine punctured wounds on her body." --Wynne Baxter, Daily Telegraph, 24 September.


In reality, Martha Tabram was found at around 4:45 a.m. by John Saunders Reeves.

Come on Roger, it’s only an hour and three-quarter difference. Stop nitpicking.

[Herlock Sholmes]

It one of Christer’s now famous interpretations of the English language.

In Lechmere World ”…cannot have been far from 3.45 a.m,” can’t have meant 3,40 or 3.41….it must have meant 3.45 or 3.44.

[Dickere]

It one of Christer’s now famous interpretations of the English language.

In Lechmere World ”…cannot have been far from 3.45 a.m,” can’t have meant 3,40 or 3.41….it must have meant 3.45 or 3.44.

From memory, wasn't it that 3:44 has to be more likely than 3:43 and so on backwards ?

[Herlock Sholmes]

From memory, wasn't it that 3:44 has to be more likely than 3:43 and so on backwards ?

That’s right. Of course the nearer to 3.45 he can get plus the closer to 3.30 for Cross leaving the house, minus the 7 or 8 minutes walk and….hey presto…a mysterious gap. But if ‘about’ was 3.33 and ‘cannot have been far from 3.45’ was 3.41 then the gap was zero. It’s all pointless anyway because no one can prove that he didn’t have time to kill Nichols. It just means the same as for 99% of people that have found a body.

[Aethelwulf]

I wondered how long it would take. I see the stow has latched on to Rex H in his latest video. I wonder why?

[Fiver]

In reference to Christer's strange reliance on Wynne Baxter's statement about when the body was discovered, let's remind ourselves what Baxter said about the Tabram murder in the same summation:

"Martha Tabram was found at three a.m. on Tuesday, August 7th, on the first-floor landing of George Yard buildings, Wentworth Street, with thirty-nine punctured wounds on her body." --Wynne Baxter, Daily Telegraph, 24 September.


In reality, Martha Tabram was found at around 4:45 a.m. by John Saunders Reeves.

The Times confirms the Tabram error - "Martha Tabram was found at 3 a.m. on Tuesday, the 7th of August, on the first-floor landing of George-yard-buildings, with 39 punctured wounds on her body."

The Times also differs from the Daily Telegraph's timing for Nichols body being found - "On Friday evening, the 31st of August, she was seen by Mrs. Holland - who knew her well - at the corner of Osborn-street and Whitechapel-road, nearly opposite the parish church. The deceased woman was then much the worse for drink and was staggering against the wall. Her friend endeavoured to persuade her to come home with her, but she declined, and was last seen endeavouring to walk eastward down Whitechapel. She said she had had her lodging money three times that day, but that she had spent it, that she was going about to get some money to pay her lodgings, and she would soon be back. In less than an hour and a quarter after this she was found dead at a spot rather under three-quarters of a mile distant."

So according to the Times, Nichols was found before 3:45am.

[Fiver]

The Daily News supports the Times account.

"On Friday evening, August 31, she was seen by Mrs. Holland (who knew her well) at the corner of Osborn street and Whitechapel road, nearly opposite the parish church. It was then half past two. She was much the worse for drink and was staggering against the wall. She was last seen endeavouring to walk eastward down Whitechapel. What her exact movements were after this it is impossible to say. The condition of this main thoroughfare leaves little doubt that she must have met many persons afterwards; but no one has been found who saw her. In less than an hour and a quarter she was found dead at a spot rather under three quarters of a mile distant."