The Jack the Ripper Mystery is Finally Solved — Scientifically

[GBinOz]

Excellent post George.


I think the answer may lie in the Ripper having suffered from a multiple personality disorder.

Not schizophrenia, but rather someone with more than one "personality."

There would be a dominant host, and possibly up to scores of others all within one human frame.

That may sound like science fiction, but there is science behind this Jeckyl and Hyde description.

A man who could initially present as calm and well mannered, could then change to a man with a different personality type, who could exhibit different attributes; including increased strength, different accent, violent temperament etc...

it has often been argued that the Ripper may have been more than one man.

But what if he was one man....but with multiple personalities?

He could have been a surgeon, a clerk, a sailor, a doctor, a detective etc... all in one body.

It's a rare phenomenon, but still possible.

Thanks RD,

I suspect your theory would attract support from Dave Adams who postulates that the ripper was connected to the Robert Louis Stevenson book.

There are arguments that the murders were committed by more than one killer, that they were committed by a team of two or more, and they were committed by a Jekyll/Hyde. There was a witness that heard the whispering of male voices as the train went by at Berner St, but that would have required Jekyll and Hyde talking to themselves.

As for the team theory, for Stride there was BSman and Pipeman, at Mitre Sq there have been suggestions that George Morris may have been an accomplice, the royal conspiracy has Netly and Gull and it has even been suggested that Hutchinson may have been a lookout for Astrakhan man. That's not to mention the "Four Jacks Theory" promoted by Randy Williams.

IMO JtR was a composite of several killers, but if he were one man I agree that he would have been a Jekyll/Hyde - the placid character that nobody notices until he changes into his dark passenger.

Cheers, George