A Possible Reason Why Jack Didn't Mutilate Liz

[c.d.]

Hi Sam,

Even if it was a short ritual as you suggest, it might also have been absolutely mandatory that he act it out from start to finish. Any interruption might have meant that he could no longer go through with the act.

Aren't serial killers generally compulsive?

c.d.

[c.d.]

Hi Anna,

I think the possibilities are pretty much endless and it needn't have been anything as dramatic as Masonic or having to do with Black Magic. It might have been something very much mundane but which held great significance for Jack.

c.d.

[Sam Flynn]

Hi CD,

It would have to have been a very short ritual, if the Chapman and Eddowes witnesses are anything to go by.

[anna]

I think that possibility is really interesting c.d,are you thinking of masonic, or black magic...what do you think he would have done?
There are other possibilities.

[c.d.]

If Jack killed Liz, why didn't he mutilate her? The most common explanation seems to be that he might have been interrupted. The longer that Jack was alone with her in the yard, the weaker that argument becomes. We naturally assume that Jack began his mutilations immediately after killing his victim. But what if Jack had some sort of ritual that he followed before beginning to cut? Something that was extremely important to him and something from which he would not deviate. It could have been so compulsive that had he been interrupted in mid ritual, he could no longer go forward with the act.

What do you think?

c.d.