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Something weird happened when Liz Stride was killed. Those darn Cachous have told us that for 124 years.
From what research I have done (and it is precious little so knowledgeable, well-studied people here are especially invited) I think something happened with Liz's heart.
Here's why:
Quoting Dr. Bagster Phillips: Both lungs were unusually pale. The heart was small; left ventricle firmly contracted, right less so. Right ventricle full of dark clot; left absolutely empty.
Phillips does go on to say that the cut throat was what killed her.
However:
states that:
The right ventricle is what pumps blood to the lungs.
The right side of the heart is the weak side since the distance the blood has to travel is so much shorter -- just to the lungs while the left ventricle pumps to the entire body.
So, Elizabeth Stride's right ventricle was full of clotted blood and she had pale lungs.
That makes sense. Her lungs quit getting blood.
Her left ventricle, which pumped blood to the rest of her body (think neck), was "absolutely empty" of blood and "firmly contracted".
Other research at http://www.montana.edu/craigs/How%20...rt%20Works.htm
and some other sites I can't re-find right now say:
"Then the Ventricles contract together to propel blood out of the heart."
So, since the bottom chambers contract at the same time, both ventricles should have been empty (or full), not one empty and the other full.
The blood remaining in the right ventricle would account for the pale lungs, which makes me think she stopped breathing? would that be right?
Does that mean that she stopped breathing before her heart stopped beating to pump the blood from the rest of her body?
This does not make total sense for there was about a pound of clotted blood near her body and if her lungs shut down, then the left side of the heart would have stopped receiving blood to pump?
Anyway, something weird happened, those clutched Cachous and the unmatching ventricles seem to say that.
So, my question is: If something happened with Liz (say she quit breathing and dropped like a dead weight in her killer's arms) how would the person we think of as JtR have been likely to react?
Do we know enough about serial killers to know he would have continued if the victim was already "gone"?
I read "Bloodstains" about Dr. H.H. Holmes. Apparently Holmes would cut necks twice. The first time was a less severe cut in order for the victim to know she/he was going to die so Holmes could watch the expression in their eyes -- the terror, then the pleading. The second slash was actually for the kill.
But if a victim dropping dead or in a dead faint deprived the killer of the "fun" would he abort the rest of the ritual? Or would something strange happening -- like a victim just dropping -- spook a killer enough to run?
Could this explain the condition of Liz's body and make her more likely a victim of "Jack"?
curious
From what research I have done (and it is precious little so knowledgeable, well-studied people here are especially invited) I think something happened with Liz's heart.
Here's why:
Quoting Dr. Bagster Phillips: Both lungs were unusually pale. The heart was small; left ventricle firmly contracted, right less so. Right ventricle full of dark clot; left absolutely empty.
Phillips does go on to say that the cut throat was what killed her.
However:
states that:
The right ventricle is what pumps blood to the lungs.
The right side of the heart is the weak side since the distance the blood has to travel is so much shorter -- just to the lungs while the left ventricle pumps to the entire body.
So, Elizabeth Stride's right ventricle was full of clotted blood and she had pale lungs.
That makes sense. Her lungs quit getting blood.
Her left ventricle, which pumped blood to the rest of her body (think neck), was "absolutely empty" of blood and "firmly contracted".
Other research at http://www.montana.edu/craigs/How%20...rt%20Works.htm
and some other sites I can't re-find right now say:
"Then the Ventricles contract together to propel blood out of the heart."
So, since the bottom chambers contract at the same time, both ventricles should have been empty (or full), not one empty and the other full.
The blood remaining in the right ventricle would account for the pale lungs, which makes me think she stopped breathing? would that be right?
Does that mean that she stopped breathing before her heart stopped beating to pump the blood from the rest of her body?
This does not make total sense for there was about a pound of clotted blood near her body and if her lungs shut down, then the left side of the heart would have stopped receiving blood to pump?
Anyway, something weird happened, those clutched Cachous and the unmatching ventricles seem to say that.
So, my question is: If something happened with Liz (say she quit breathing and dropped like a dead weight in her killer's arms) how would the person we think of as JtR have been likely to react?
Do we know enough about serial killers to know he would have continued if the victim was already "gone"?
I read "Bloodstains" about Dr. H.H. Holmes. Apparently Holmes would cut necks twice. The first time was a less severe cut in order for the victim to know she/he was going to die so Holmes could watch the expression in their eyes -- the terror, then the pleading. The second slash was actually for the kill.
But if a victim dropping dead or in a dead faint deprived the killer of the "fun" would he abort the rest of the ritual? Or would something strange happening -- like a victim just dropping -- spook a killer enough to run?
Could this explain the condition of Liz's body and make her more likely a victim of "Jack"?
curious
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