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Greetings all,
I’m sure this has come up a dozen times, but it’s time for number 13 (on Friday the 13th). In an article called ‘The Jack the Ripper Murders: A Modus Operandi and Signature Analysis of the 1888-1891 Whitechapel Murders’ in theJournal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (2: 1-21 (2005)), the authors evaluated the eleven Whitechapel murders and concluded one killer killed Tabram plus the C5. They state,
“An evaluation of the murders revealed that six of those murders were linked by a number of distinct, personal signature characteristics, including picquerism, overkill, incapacitation, domination and control, open and displayed, unusual body position, sexual degradation, mutilation, organ harvesting, specific areas of attack, preplanning and organization, and a combination of signature features.”
Assuming this is correct, I would like to further narrow the six down to three as to which killings JTR had taken his agenda to fruition? Chapman, Eddowes, and Kelly all had not only been mutilated but also had organs (and rings) taken for trophies. Evidence suggests that JTR was interrupted with the others (maybe not Tabram). In view of this, should we look at these three more closely when attempting to determine the motive or motives of JTR?
Sincerely,
Mike
I’m sure this has come up a dozen times, but it’s time for number 13 (on Friday the 13th). In an article called ‘The Jack the Ripper Murders: A Modus Operandi and Signature Analysis of the 1888-1891 Whitechapel Murders’ in theJournal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (2: 1-21 (2005)), the authors evaluated the eleven Whitechapel murders and concluded one killer killed Tabram plus the C5. They state,
“An evaluation of the murders revealed that six of those murders were linked by a number of distinct, personal signature characteristics, including picquerism, overkill, incapacitation, domination and control, open and displayed, unusual body position, sexual degradation, mutilation, organ harvesting, specific areas of attack, preplanning and organization, and a combination of signature features.”
Assuming this is correct, I would like to further narrow the six down to three as to which killings JTR had taken his agenda to fruition? Chapman, Eddowes, and Kelly all had not only been mutilated but also had organs (and rings) taken for trophies. Evidence suggests that JTR was interrupted with the others (maybe not Tabram). In view of this, should we look at these three more closely when attempting to determine the motive or motives of JTR?
Sincerely,
Mike
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