"The Secret Idenity of Jack the Ripper". Your thoughts?

[Tom_Wescott]

It's fun but silly.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[GUT]

G'Day EQ [don't mind the trade name]

And welcome..

t really depends on how much credence you place on profiling and perhaps even more to the point how applicable a modern profile is to events 100 years earlier.

[elleryqueen74]

I have just watched the 1988 documentary The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper hosted by Peter Ustinov.

This documentary aims to try and explain some of the mystery around the case and even offers a prime suspect, after FBI profilers etc look into the case and give us their opinions. For example The FBI profilers believe based on the profile of the Ripper that all the letters sent to the police at the time were all fake and could not of been written by the Ripper, including the "Dear Boss" letter. It also has commentary by Donald Rumbelow and Martin Fido concerning aspects of the case.

So I am just wondering for those of you that have seen it what do you make of this documentary and its conclusions??

For those of you who haven't the complete documentary is on youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqFtvJibWKY Please watch it and let us know your thoughts.