Worth a look?

[Herlock Sholmes]

As we have so many ‘suspects’ who were simply around at the time it doesn’t mean that we might not, at some point, have a huge piece of luck and look at one of these people and find something of interest.

For example, would we think someone worthy of further research who was…

A local man
Lived less than ½ mile from one of the murder site
37 at the time of the murders
Knew someone connected to one of the murders
Market Porter
Father a butcher
Died ‘insane’ in a workhouse in 1902

[John Wheat]

As we have so many ‘suspects’ who were simply around at the time it doesn’t mean that we might not, at some point, have a huge piece of luck and look at one of these people and find something of interest.

For example, would we think someone worthy of further research who was…

A local man
Lived less than ½ mile from one of the murder site
37 at the time of the murders
Knew someone connected to one of the murders
Market Porter
Father a butcher
Died ‘insane’ in a workhouse in 1902

Hi Herlock

I would say in terms of finding the Ripper this man would not be worth further research. Just because he lived less than half a mile from one of the murder site as so did many other people. Again a lot of other people would have known someone connected to the murders. Many people would have been Market Porters, many people would have had fathers who were butchers. Died 'insane' in a workhouse in 1902 is interesting but that's about it. 37 at the time of the murders actually to me sounds quite old. A doubt a serial killer would start at the age of 37. There would likely have been other murders before the Ripper murders for a suspect of 37. Overall I don't think there is anything remarkable about this man to suggest he could be the Ripper. I would suggest that generally people could be more discerning when looking at suspects.

Cheers John

[Herlock Sholmes]

Hi Herlock

I would say in terms of finding the Ripper this man would not be worth further research. Just because he lived less than half a mile from one of the murder site as so did many other people. Again a lot of other people would have known someone connected to the murders. Many people would have been Market Porters, many people would have had fathers who were butchers. Died 'insane' in a workhouse in 1902 is interesting but that's about it. 37 at the time of the murders actually to me sounds quite old. A doubt a serial killer would start at the age of 37. There would likely have been other murders before the Ripper murders for a suspect of 37. Overall I don't think there is anything remarkable about this man to suggest he could be the Ripper. I would suggest that generally people could be more discerning when looking at suspects.

Cheers John

Hello John,

I certainly don’t disagree with your assessment but the point that I was really trying to make was that we have so many ‘suspects’ that it’s not too difficult to find one if you look. Just to be clear by the way….this is an actual person and not a hypothetical one.

This guys route to work made him pass one of the murder scenes close to the time of a murder. He also certainly had a connection to the events immediately after one of the murders. Now….what if further research found that he’d once threatened a woman with a knife…or that his mother was a prostitute…or that he associated with prostitutes?

The question for me would be - is there anything else that can be discovered about him which might raise an eyebrow?

Probably not…but you never know.

[The Rookie Detective]

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