Hi Trevor,
Dutfields Yard may not have been a location that was regularly used by prostitutes but that doesn't mean that it couldn't have been used by Liz on that evening. It had a privy where she could clean up and more importantly (from her perspective and not her killer's) there were people nearby that could be summoned with a scream for help. This point gets overlooked. Liz had to be aware of the previous murders. Why go off somewhere dark and deserted when the deed could be accomplished in a much safer location?
You keep saying that the police suspected the killer of the previous victims but that victim had no name. Again, how do they know that Kidney wasn't the Ripper? You also state that the police would have been aware of the relationship between Kidney and Liz and that it included physical abuse. You build the very obvious case for Kidney being the prime suspect but then go on to say that it appears that Kidney was never questioned about his whereabouts. That simply does not follow unless the police were absolute fools.
Yesterday, where I live, there was a news story about a murder of a woman and her daughter in their apartment. Neighbors called the police after hearing a loud argument (no surprise there). Police are now searching for her ex husband/father of her child. No surprise there either. It is the first place they look. The same would be true in 1888. Human nature doesn't change. When they find him, they will ask him where he was that night just as the police would have asked Kidney.
c.d.
Dutfields Yard may not have been a location that was regularly used by prostitutes but that doesn't mean that it couldn't have been used by Liz on that evening. It had a privy where she could clean up and more importantly (from her perspective and not her killer's) there were people nearby that could be summoned with a scream for help. This point gets overlooked. Liz had to be aware of the previous murders. Why go off somewhere dark and deserted when the deed could be accomplished in a much safer location?
You keep saying that the police suspected the killer of the previous victims but that victim had no name. Again, how do they know that Kidney wasn't the Ripper? You also state that the police would have been aware of the relationship between Kidney and Liz and that it included physical abuse. You build the very obvious case for Kidney being the prime suspect but then go on to say that it appears that Kidney was never questioned about his whereabouts. That simply does not follow unless the police were absolute fools.
Yesterday, where I live, there was a news story about a murder of a woman and her daughter in their apartment. Neighbors called the police after hearing a loud argument (no surprise there). Police are now searching for her ex husband/father of her child. No surprise there either. It is the first place they look. The same would be true in 1888. Human nature doesn't change. When they find him, they will ask him where he was that night just as the police would have asked Kidney.
c.d.
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