A Killer Other Than the B.S. Man?

[lynn cates]

right

Hello Harry.

"Was she a prostitute at that time? There's no proof that she was, nor Eddowes either."

Right you are.

Cheers.
LC

[Wyatt Earp]

To Wickerman and c.d.—try to put yourselves in Jack’s shoes. He knew who he was, he’d just been seen assaulting a woman on the streets of Whitechapel in the early hours of the morning, he had reason to fear the police might want to look into him in connection with the previous murders. He made a snap decision to murder Stride and shut off that possibility. Like it or not, this is a reasonable explanation of what could have occurred.

To Harry—given what the police knew about Stride, and given the time and location of the assault, the police could have reasonably concluded that Stride might have been soliciting. It does not matter if she actually was. They would have wanted to explore the possibility that this attack was connected with the previous murders.