Originally posted by Fisherman
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I'm not saying Eddowes' mutilation was "meticulous" by any sensible definition of the word, just that it was "neater" than that suffered by Mary Kelly, where - comparatively - the killer had all the time in the world, and a significantly higher degree of privacy than that which prevailed at Mitre Square, Hanbury Street or Bucks Row. Yet, in each case, whether indoor or outdoor, whether pressed for time or not, we get a butcher's shambles of carnage and crudity.
There was no practised hand at work in the "Canonical 4" mutilation murders of 1888, at least there is no evidence of one; either that, or the killer did a superb job of masking his expertise with incompetence.
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