Hello, Abby.
As I said before, most of the 'similarities' with Tabram are largely circumstantial: she was a prostitute, she died at night, she was killed with a knife, even the posing of the body, these are not unique Ripper traits. This is the kind of occupational hazard that comes from working in a violent neighbourhood.
I'm not seeing an evolution, Abby. This was a complete shift in focus from someone who stabbed his first victim no less than *39* times! At what point did he realize that the stabbing wasn't doing it for him?
Am I suggesting that Nichols was the Ripper's first kill? Maybe? I wouldn't profess to know either way. However, I'll stop short of accepting Tabram into the canon just because it's convenient. There's theorists who propose that the Ripper was part of the gang that attacked Emma Smith, and that's where he got his taste for murder. It's a nice idea, to paint this 'evolution of Ripper' but it's complete conjecture. How far do we want to keep regressing? All I will say is that the killer's signature still wasn't fully formed after Nichols, as he hadn't begun taking internal organs as trophies but we could see that was his focus.
That still leaves quite a few murders to reckon with.
Farmer probably was a scammer, I meant Ada Wilson.
On the 15th Sept 1888 an unnamed prostitute claimed that a man tried to trip her to the ground and slash her throat but she raised her arms to defend herself. Susan Ward is the only patient admitted to hospital with these types of injuries at this time, therefore it's just assumed this was the victim's identity.
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Am I suggesting that Nichols was the Ripper's first kill? Maybe? I wouldn't profess to know either way. However, I'll stop short of accepting Tabram into the canon just because it's convenient. There's theorists who propose that the Ripper was part of the gang that attacked Emma Smith, and that's where he got his taste for murder. It's a nice idea, to paint this 'evolution of Ripper' but it's complete conjecture. How far do we want to keep regressing? All I will say is that the killer's signature still wasn't fully formed after Nichols, as he hadn't begun taking internal organs as trophies but we could see that was his focus.
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On the 15th Sept 1888 an unnamed prostitute claimed that a man tried to trip her to the ground and slash her throat but she raised her arms to defend herself. Susan Ward is the only patient admitted to hospital with these types of injuries at this time, therefore it's just assumed this was the victim's identity.
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