MJK photo 4 enhanced

[Khanada]

I can see the breasts on the table.

For what it's worth, Dr Bond described the breasts as being in locations other than the table:

"The viscera were found in various parts viz: the uterus and kidneys with one breast under the head, the other breast by the right foot, the liver between the feet, the intestines by the right side and the spleen by the left side of the body. The flaps removed from the abdomen and thighs were on a table."

For what it's worth.

Some time back Suzi did some ... well, not really enchancements, precisely ... to the main full-body photo, specifically the face, with Paint. Frankly, it was the first time I could make out any facial features at all -- ironically, it made the photo much easier to bear looking at. Poor girl.

[Mascara & Paranoia]

I really wish I could see her face.

The closest thing I can make out of how she used to look is (and I don't mean this in a bastardy way at all) that she had gapped teeth.

[Nemo]

It's probably an anomaly but I see the number 285 above the line on her rt calf

Overall, I'm surprised by the lack of blood

You would think that the bed would be saturated

Just goes to show how little blood would flow during the dissection after the victim had been bled via the throat wound

[Nothing to see]

I've never noticed that line on her right calf before. Yeah, imagine this in color. I think I can see her eyes open. I really wish I could see her face.

The first photo. There's some French term for it but I can't think of it at the moment. I think it's to do with the processing of the film. I can see the breasts on the table. But her lower abdomen, it all is just a blur of blood and bits to me.

[GordonH]

This is very good work.

What is the situation with the original photos?
Or are there any first generation (from the plate) prints?

If it was possible to get back to the closest to the original then there may be all sorts of possibilities for future enhancement.

[Midnyte]

Thanks SGH, for posting those pictures for us.
I ask you to consider the wounds on Catherine Eddowes lower abdomen, thighs, and genital area. Deep slashes were made down each of the inner thighs that separated the outer labia. These are the type of wounds I can see on the large object on the table that some call a "bolster", although a bolster is never mentioned in any report.
What I can see is the flesh on the table from the body, with many cuts in between the thighs and pubic area, made before the flesh was removed.
These wounds match up with cuts seen on the raw flesh left behind on the body. The flesh was posed (upside down in relation to its original position on the body), so if the picture is reversed, you can see the rounded cut at one end matching the right thighs circular cut, and all the way to the other end,the left calf, which dangles from the table with deep slashes, a muscular appearance, with a tendon at the end giving the flesh a firm appearance.
What can explain the shot being taken at that angle if it were not to include the large object on the table?
WHy were the police so horrified by this murder, if all he had done was toss organs around?
No, I truly believe that Jack the Ripper had skinned the whole surface of the most intimate areas of his victim and posed them on the table to horrify the finder, and to denigrate the profession of the women he killed.
He used his knife on the women as though it were his sex organ, and then mutilated the face from shame.
Just my opinion!
Those stocking stitches noticed by Jane Coram,are very visible in your shot, even the end where the stitches have come unravelled.
Great work!
Joan O. (Midnyte)

[Brenda]

These enhanced photos are breath-taking. MJK owned the world's ugliest bolster.

[Mascara & Paranoia]

Perhaps I should've worded that differently. But whoa, you can really see the damage and savagery of Jack's handiwork when these pictures are enhanced (kind of a moot thing to say admittedly haha). Vicious stuff.

[Sam Flynn]

Is that the pattern of the blood on her arm or has her actual arm been shredded

Not quite "shredded", but certainly savagely cut. From Dr Bond's notes: "The arms [were] mutilated by several jagged wounds".

[Mascara & Paranoia]

Is that the pattern of the blood on her arm or has her actual arm been shredded (in the whole-view shot of the body on the bed, not the picture from the original post)? 'Cause I didn't notice that before. o_O

Also, forgive me ignorance, but why is this photo called #4? I've only seen 2 and think that's all there are 'available', but were there four photos in total and the other two been misplace or something? Or am I horribly mistaken? So sorry for any confusion in advance. ;p

[neathy]

enhanced lines in photo

Since you probably have zoomed in on this photo you have seen the enhanced (drawn in) pixel lines in the photo. One is the dark band on her right leg just below the knee. The other is the line on the lower outline of her right thigh. Then there is one extending from her left pinkie finger accross her 'stomach' and another on the right outline of the white material above her left knee. Pixel-wise these lines match nothing else on the entire photo. I used to do photo pixel level 'fixes' on old b&w and sepia pictures that were torn or damaged. So when I magnified the photo to only 3x those lines were pretty plain. The band on her right calve is darker than anything else in the photo, even the dried blood ! When I look at this and some of the anomolies such as the drawn in wall planks behind the headboard ( who would cut planks ALL this crooked ) I have to think "hmmmmm.... can we believe anything we see in these two photographs ?" Excellent work on the enhancements BTW.

[ChrisGeorge]

What I find telling and interesting with sgh:s excellent enchancement of the MJK full body crime scene photo, is what a real mess it is - and quite a large amount of blood and blood spray on the wall.

All the best

Hello Glenn and Steve et al.

Well it might be blood and blood spray but it might also be that the panelling is discolored so it's really hard to tell even with this enhancement. Thanks for your work, Steve!

Chris

[sgh]

Steve,

See this page thread for a run down of the different MJK photos and what they are numbered or called.

http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=1821&page=24

JM

Ah! Now I understand.
I had seen your original post, but with this that and the other I forgot the numbers.
Many thanks for that - JM.

Best, Steve

[Mitch Rowe]

... no axe was involved, Mitch

Look above the split femur. I think she left her broken hatchet there!

[sgh]

Wow, sgh, this is really amazing work. That's the clearest version of MJK3 ever. Where have you been all our lives? I look forward to your next posts.

Many thanks,
I've been on and off with JTR for many years - then came the recent Whitechapel series and I'm in again deep !
Photoshop is one of my 'things' !