Throat-slitting and Stride

[Digalittledeeperwatson]

Hullo Phil H, all.

Well obviously Stride doesn't HAVE to be a victim of 'JTR'. So let us observe the scenario and see what we might, how you say, devine.

Compare Stride's scenario to Eddowes.

Compare Stride's scenario to the domestic that same evening.

Which two are more similar? Exclude witness testimony for the time being.

I'm on the fence about Stride. If I recall correctly there were 5 more murders of women by slit throat in 88 than the previous year in the records. For a total of 16. 3 occuring on the same evening. With a potential serial killer running about. Around 10-11 on average for a few years before and after 88. Lost train of thought.

[andy1867]

I sort of favour the interrupted murder scenario if Stride is to be accepted
It was a very public place seemed a busy night
Jack gets interrupted his rage not satiated so continues to Mitre square
Regards
Andy

[ukranianphil]

I am not sure of the statistics; reading the papers there were quite a few
throat cutters about.
My View is that, Stride was different and could not have been a ripper victim.
I think the press were too quick to put the two murders together that night.
It just dose not add up that he would kill someone, then cross over to miter square and kill another, then go back into whitechapel when there were 100's of police out looking as well as Vigilantes.
I think stride was a victim of a robbery not ripper but the press jumed
at the chance to link the two together. Especially to bring the jews back into
it; since it was outside a working mans club and the Graffito on the wall next to Eddowes apron implicated them, (although i believe the Graffito had nothing to do with the case)and also the Leather apron scare had died down.
If the stride murder had occured on another night, she would not have been
included as a ripper victim.

[Phil H]

Probably by me!!!

[lynn cates]

"Here comes another one."

Hello Phil. I admire your testosterone level.

Hope you have a pith helmet--this has been asked before.

Cheers.
LC

[Damaso Marte]

How common was it for throat-cutting victims (in general) to have been cut on the ground versus standing?

[Phil H]

I am not sure where to post this - without either disrupting discussions in a current thread or unearthing some old one.

It is often said that one of the reasons we must accept Stride as a Ripper-victim is that (notwithstanding the lack of mutilations) her throat was cut.

Re-reading "1888: London Murders in the Year of the Ripper" by Peter Stubley, I find that Lucy Clark (of George ST Portman Square) had her throat cut. OK she had been repeatedly hit over the head as well, but her killer(s) had slit her throat.

On the same night as Stride was killed, Sarah Brown had her throat cut by her husband in an acknowledge "domestic".

Now, my point is that these are just two examples, but evidently throat-cutting was not something reserved to "Jack", not unusual in Victorian London; happened in "domestic" murders; and could be done with "weapons" to hand.

So, why does a woman with her throat slit HAVE so insistently to be "Jack's" work"?

Unless you believe that Tabram, Mckenzie and the Pinchin St torso were also "Jack's" work, I find the - there could only have been one killer around in the area at that time - explanation, a weak one. There was one other "domestic" that very night - why not two?

Phil