Who was killed by Jack the Ripper?

[c.d.]

Hi Lewis,

I agree on your take regarding Klosowski. While switching to poison might be unlikely it is not impossible. He simply can't be ruled out based on that one factor alone. And as you say, he has quite a few other things going for him.

By the way, I find myself agreeing with your take on things more and more. Keep up the good work!

c.d.

[Abby Normal]

Hi Abby and thank you,
I see the Double Event occuring very similar to your theory. The GSG I see two reasons for. One is yours, the Ripper was certainly pissed being interrupted and nearly caught at Berner Street. The second reason for the GSG I mentioned in a post to Herlock. JtR extracting Katiīs kidney the way he did, showed a skill level of him he did not want to show and he recognised it. So he mutilated KE more than usual (easy since he also had rising aggression), mutilations and gore always help distracting the public, but as we can see from the police records, the most severe mutilations were made after(!) he extracted the kidney. Doc Brown from the City Police mentioned that and that he could retrace the Ripperīs steps and implied doctors (of that era) would have done so very similarly.

As I wrote in an earlier post, you cannot fake yourself through a kidney surgery. A skilled person can conceal itīs skill level by making deliberately bad moves now and then, a person without skill cannot make enough good moves to conceal itīs lack of skill. The Mitre Square kidney extraction under miserable circumstances shows too much skill for it to be done by someone just cutting about. Put yourself in JtRīs shoes for a moment: could you have done this extraction in near darkness, on your knees and under time pressure? No chance in hell, unless you have some prior knowledge of what you want to do.
The Ripper does not need to have been a doctor, but however he gained his knowledge, Jack possessed an anatomical/medical knowledge well above the norm for both today and even more so 1888.

hi fern
thanks and i tend to agree. no way i could do it, for many reasons and im pretty avg. lol.

But in all seriousness, i think the ripper had prior experience in at least two of the following:

Use of knife in cutting up things
anatomy
medical
surgical

[Kunochan]

PM me your e-mail address. I'll see if I can dig them up and send them to you.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Thanks!