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  • drstrange169
    Superintendent
    • Feb 2008
    • 2409

    #1

    RIP Annie

    Number two according to Macnaughton, but realising breathing soul none the less.
    dustymiller
    aka drstrange
  • Sleuth1888
    Detective
    • May 2014
    • 106

    #2
    RIP Annie

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    • Losmandris
      Sergeant
      • May 2019
      • 715

      #3
      132 years but not forgotten.

      Tristan
      Best wishes,

      Tristan

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      • Michael W Richards
        Inactive
        • May 2012
        • 7122

        #4
        I think that the murder of Annie Chapman is the quintessential Jack the Ripper crime. He could complete what he wanted to do when these urges arose. The killing of Polly was almost certainly by the same individual, which would suggest that her murder was not as complete as he might have intended.

        It was not really a great location, any number of witnesses could have become aware of them. Like Cadosche for one,...he looks over that fence and the murderer is done. So his lack of concern for high risk murder sites remains the same going forward. The backyard in not like in the street, but almost 20 people lived in that house, and many windows of adjoining houses overlooked it. Far from safe. Compared with the dimly lit and secluded Mitre Square murder almost a month later.

        Annies killing established a "series", it revealed a man with purpose and no soul.

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        • miakaal4
          Inactive
          • Sep 2012
          • 276

          #5
          There is something very profound in the remembrance of JtR's victims. Without him they would have always remained unknown. But the price of lasting fame was high. Would be good for their ghost's if they could ever have closure.

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          • Harry D
            *
            • May 2014
            • 3360

            #6
            Originally posted by miakaal4 View Post
            There is something very profound in the remembrance of JtR's victims. Without him they would have always remained unknown. But the price of lasting fame was high. Would be good for their ghost's if they could ever have closure.
            I was thinking along those lines. The victims have been immortalized if only through the gruesome way in which they were dispatched from this earth. If not for those chance encounters, they would've been lost to the annals of history.

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            • Losmandris
              Sergeant
              • May 2019
              • 715

              #7
              Yes. It makes you pause and think about the hundreds, if not thousands of poor souls who lived similar lives. Utterly destitute and impoverished, living and dying in the shadows of history. very sad. Reminds me just how lucky we are to be born in this era.

              Tristan
              Best wishes,

              Tristan

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              • Barnaby
                Sergeant
                • Feb 2008
                • 765

                #8
                RIP, Annie.

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                • The Rookie Detective
                  Chief Inspector
                  • Apr 2019
                  • 1891

                  #9
                  Be at peace Annie.


                  Never forgotten.



                  RD
                  "Great minds, don't think alike"

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