Coles - Ripper or not?

[Tom_Wescott]

Damn right.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Monty]

Apologies for taking the attention away from you Tom

Monty

[Tom_Wescott]

I thought I'd open this thread in case Monty and House Party decide they want to talk about the Stride murder, just to keep things even.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Uncle Jack]

Well there was Alice McKenzie and Pinchin Street in between as well as Elizabeth Jackson. Of these three Liz Jackson is an unlikely but still possible.

[smezenen]

With no undecided or inconclusive option I can not vote on this pole. There are simularities, an older probably drunk prostitute with a cut throat, and there are differences, dull knife, no sign of strangulation, and no abdominal mutilation. The differences in this case make it simular to the murder of liz Stride however after being denied time with the boddy of Stride JTR killed again on the same night. So If he killed Coles and was interupted before he could mutilate woulndt he have sought another victim that night as he did on Sep. 30, 1888? Its possible he did look for another and was unable to find one, but as prolific and skilled as JTR was at his bloody hobby I do not believe he would fail to find a second victim. There is also the time period between MJK and Coles, 2 years and 3 months. The next question this brings to my mind is if Frances Coles was a JTR victim how many more where there between her and Mary Jane? Or are we to believe that Jack took a 2 year break?

[Uncle Jack]

Poll to see about Coles candicy as a Ripper victim......