Hiya, Mike! Happy 2024.
I agree that most probably we will never know the truth for certain.
As for there being 'so many origin stories', I agree that something was 'going on' with the Barretts. Anne meekly went along with Mike's original story, that Tony gave him the diary without saying where it came from, until July 1994 when she added a prequel by claiming she had given it to Tony to give to Mike, asking Tony to say nothing.
As for Mike, when he deviated from his original story, he didn't just spill all the beans in the right order and prove that he and Anne created the diary or knew who did. That would have put the lid on it back in June 1994. The problem was that he could never tell a straight story, and the details he gave were either disprovable, unprovable or frankly not believable - like when he told Alan Gray all about how he bought the watch, faked the scratches inside it, then got a "friend" [who he refused to "grass" on] to take it across the water to Wallasey and plant it! You couldn't make it up - except that Mike did!
If there was a truth that both Anne and Mike were hiding, what was it?
In evidential terms, the 'provenance' only dates back to 9th March 1992, when Jack the Ripper's diary was first mentioned on the record by Mike in a phone call to London.
That's the starting point.
Some believe that Mike had not even set eyes on the scrapbook on that date, so could not have described what he had when phoning London.
It is my belief that on 8th March 1992, if someone had mentioned the concept of a diary by Jack the Ripper to Mike, they'd have got the blankest of blank looks from him.
Love,
Caz
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I agree that most probably we will never know the truth for certain.
As for there being 'so many origin stories', I agree that something was 'going on' with the Barretts. Anne meekly went along with Mike's original story, that Tony gave him the diary without saying where it came from, until July 1994 when she added a prequel by claiming she had given it to Tony to give to Mike, asking Tony to say nothing.
As for Mike, when he deviated from his original story, he didn't just spill all the beans in the right order and prove that he and Anne created the diary or knew who did. That would have put the lid on it back in June 1994. The problem was that he could never tell a straight story, and the details he gave were either disprovable, unprovable or frankly not believable - like when he told Alan Gray all about how he bought the watch, faked the scratches inside it, then got a "friend" [who he refused to "grass" on] to take it across the water to Wallasey and plant it! You couldn't make it up - except that Mike did!
If there was a truth that both Anne and Mike were hiding, what was it?
In evidential terms, the 'provenance' only dates back to 9th March 1992, when Jack the Ripper's diary was first mentioned on the record by Mike in a phone call to London.
That's the starting point.
Some believe that Mike had not even set eyes on the scrapbook on that date, so could not have described what he had when phoning London.
It is my belief that on 8th March 1992, if someone had mentioned the concept of a diary by Jack the Ripper to Mike, they'd have got the blankest of blank looks from him.
Love,
Caz
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