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Finally made it to page 27. If it's any consolation, I saw the doorknob right away once the position of the room made sense 
I lost my favorite graphics program so had to use a crappy one for now with minimum options, but brightened, contrasted, and then sepia makes the door/window wall much easier to see. The doorknob would be facing into the room, the dark line above and below the light reflection is the edge angle of the edge of the door and the edge of the window wall. The curtain is easier to make out and it's light coming through the right edge of whatever covering was used. The door is closed.
My question is this....
If her door knob was broken and there was no key option from the outside, then she basically left the place wide open for intrusion when she was away. Now being inside the place with this or that guy, she might have bolted it from the inside but who knows. If there was no way to lock the door, then anyone could've come in on her. Or could've been waiting on her, maybe hiding under the bed til she wrapped it up and then got her when she passed out from the all nighter binge?
Timeline I read showed her to have basically pulled an all nighter. She was seen early in the morning, as late as 9:30 something, and she was found an hour and 15 minutes later all hacked up. It'd be daylight, no other way out but the door into the alley way or the window, and from that one picture, wide open for sighting.
Mention of part of a hat in the fireplace...could this person have had a change of clothing handy and burned all the bloody stuff - or did this person get naked first to commit the act and then wipe down, redress and walk out casually? I am of the opinion he killed her or rendered her unconscious and then performed the mutilations given the fact of other tenants all about and the hole in the window so if he attacked her at all, she could've screamed and drawn attention. That she didn't seems to me she was either knocked unconscious or already dead and couldn't scream or feel all that.
I also don't think whoever hollered murder had anything to do with anything, given the timing.
As for the suggestions JtR had the fire going to be able to see, I doubt it. It was 9:30 in the morning, clearly daylight with enough light through the window. Considering the month, the fire was no doubt for warmth and any cooking.
She talked to a younger guy mid 20s earliest, with a description that could reasonably fit James Kelly...and then a few others overnight and into the morning, with the stout one being the last one with her for a little over 2 hours before someone had *heard* someone walking away down the alley way, though they didn't hear any door close. That could've been the last one she'd been with and that guy left. I'm reluctant to consider the men she'd encountered that others had been up close enough to see her with, and those guys seeing these people because if so, those people could ID these guys easily if seen again, so if any were the ripper it'd seem to me he'd go after the witnesses too. The only one from the timeline that didn't seem to know he'd been seen talking to Mary was the JK looking guy.
She was seen after she got sick and then she went in her place. An hour and 15 minutes later, she's hacked to shreds and nobody sees anyone go in with her or leave.
Didn't her ex know the lock was broken?
Didn't her ex get upset and not want her hooking?
If her ex showed up early, wouldn't she let him in without protest?
Someone got in her place without forced entry, so she let him in quietly or he knew he could slip in quietly.
Is it possible that Mary Kelly wasn't actually a ripper victim but a jealous boyfriend victim who went nuts and attacked the object of his ire - her lady parts?
If the cops had to force open the door, knocking a table out of the way, that's a needle across a record, if the door/lock was broken. Did someone put the table in front of the door to help keep it from opening? If so, is there an alternate way out - what about through an attic or something? This one doesn't jive.
Just kicking around options. Whoever it was pulled this off in barely more than an hour, from arrival to departure, and did so without drawing suspicion...and where he would exit down the alley way on the other side, it'd have to be casual enough not to make people freak out at the bloody guy running off. Hmmm.
I lost my favorite graphics program so had to use a crappy one for now with minimum options, but brightened, contrasted, and then sepia makes the door/window wall much easier to see. The doorknob would be facing into the room, the dark line above and below the light reflection is the edge angle of the edge of the door and the edge of the window wall. The curtain is easier to make out and it's light coming through the right edge of whatever covering was used. The door is closed.My question is this....
If her door knob was broken and there was no key option from the outside, then she basically left the place wide open for intrusion when she was away. Now being inside the place with this or that guy, she might have bolted it from the inside but who knows. If there was no way to lock the door, then anyone could've come in on her. Or could've been waiting on her, maybe hiding under the bed til she wrapped it up and then got her when she passed out from the all nighter binge?
Timeline I read showed her to have basically pulled an all nighter. She was seen early in the morning, as late as 9:30 something, and she was found an hour and 15 minutes later all hacked up. It'd be daylight, no other way out but the door into the alley way or the window, and from that one picture, wide open for sighting.
Mention of part of a hat in the fireplace...could this person have had a change of clothing handy and burned all the bloody stuff - or did this person get naked first to commit the act and then wipe down, redress and walk out casually? I am of the opinion he killed her or rendered her unconscious and then performed the mutilations given the fact of other tenants all about and the hole in the window so if he attacked her at all, she could've screamed and drawn attention. That she didn't seems to me she was either knocked unconscious or already dead and couldn't scream or feel all that.
I also don't think whoever hollered murder had anything to do with anything, given the timing.
As for the suggestions JtR had the fire going to be able to see, I doubt it. It was 9:30 in the morning, clearly daylight with enough light through the window. Considering the month, the fire was no doubt for warmth and any cooking.
She talked to a younger guy mid 20s earliest, with a description that could reasonably fit James Kelly...and then a few others overnight and into the morning, with the stout one being the last one with her for a little over 2 hours before someone had *heard* someone walking away down the alley way, though they didn't hear any door close. That could've been the last one she'd been with and that guy left. I'm reluctant to consider the men she'd encountered that others had been up close enough to see her with, and those guys seeing these people because if so, those people could ID these guys easily if seen again, so if any were the ripper it'd seem to me he'd go after the witnesses too. The only one from the timeline that didn't seem to know he'd been seen talking to Mary was the JK looking guy.
She was seen after she got sick and then she went in her place. An hour and 15 minutes later, she's hacked to shreds and nobody sees anyone go in with her or leave.
Didn't her ex know the lock was broken?
Didn't her ex get upset and not want her hooking?
If her ex showed up early, wouldn't she let him in without protest?
Someone got in her place without forced entry, so she let him in quietly or he knew he could slip in quietly.
Is it possible that Mary Kelly wasn't actually a ripper victim but a jealous boyfriend victim who went nuts and attacked the object of his ire - her lady parts?
If the cops had to force open the door, knocking a table out of the way, that's a needle across a record, if the door/lock was broken. Did someone put the table in front of the door to help keep it from opening? If so, is there an alternate way out - what about through an attic or something? This one doesn't jive.
Just kicking around options. Whoever it was pulled this off in barely more than an hour, from arrival to departure, and did so without drawing suspicion...and where he would exit down the alley way on the other side, it'd have to be casual enough not to make people freak out at the bloody guy running off. Hmmm.
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