Lynn, I think that Stride lied about allegedly living on Fashion Street. Also there's a possibility that she spent Tuesday and Wednesday night in Dr. Barnardo's mission. Wescott discusses this in Examiner 1.
Tom wrote:
It's the second best Stride essay ever written. And why on earth wouldn't you be interested in reading it?
Yesterday you said it was the third best ever! How do you calculate these records? (Do you have a Top 40 of Ripperological articles?!

Tom wrote:
They showed up after death. I covered this. It's perimortem bruising. Bruises that show up AFTER death must have been left shortly before, during, or shortly after death.
Did you check this with a medical reference, Tom? Tom, I don't have a problem with believing in perimortem or postmortem bruises, my problem is that bruises don't form but after many hours after being inflicted. So if Stride's bruises on her shoulders were inflicted by BS, then I can only accept that they started to appear postmortem, at the morgue. We really have to consult a medical examiner experienced in forensics on this. I've repeatedly asked my mom,who's a dentist (i.e. not a specialist), and she could explain the physical procedure of bruising, but had no clue why they take so long to form (esp. on me).
By the way I've read Fisherman's dissertation Piecing it together - A possible scenario of the death of Elizabeth Stride,and for a while I got almost convinced that Stride's murder could have been a domestic affair, but then what severely bothers this theory is BS's physical description, which doesn't match Kidney much: Kidney was neither broad-shouldered nor full-faced.
Tom wrote:
Is this the 'point' Fisherman had that I was asked to reply to? It's more of a question than a point. Or do I have the wrong thing? To elaborate on what I said, I simply mean that it's not an easy thing to strangle someone to unconsciousness or death with your bare hands. It really isn't. Trying to strangle someone with a piece of silk about the size of a hand towel would be a remarkable feat, even for our Jack.
It's not too difficult to strangle someone manually if you use first a stranglehold/choke with one arm, then tighten the scarf with the other. Don't make me conduct any more experiments on this though (on my coat hanger!), it was creepy enough when I tried it the first time.
Also, I never said that Stride was dead when she hit the ground. Most probably it was the knife that finished her off. If you die by strangulation, it's also visible in hemorrhagies inside your eyes and on your tongue, which you bite as you get a seizure, and Liz didn't bit her tongue. (The seizure is also visible in an examination of the brain, but I very much doubt that 1888 doctors did those.)
Tom wrote:
I might also point out that Stride's scarf was pulled tight at the very moment the knife was drawn across her neck, which lends much credence to my theory.
Sure, I completely agree with you that the scarf was pulled tight at the very moment the knife was drawn across her neck. But the problem is that you don't consider that the scarf might have been pulled tight already BEFORE the attack with the knife, as she was standing. It's exactly as I said in my post of late last night: Unless there are witnesses (like in the BS attack), we can only make secure assumptions about what happened at the end of the assault, not in the beginning, since we only have the evidence of the body in situ to rely on.
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