Gruesome or what?

[Bob Hinton]

Interesting but ghoulish story here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011513/Skull-David-Attenboroughs-garden-murder-victim-Julia-Martha-Thomas.html

[Suzi]

Saw that this morning! Gruesome even by The Mail's standards!

[sdreid]

Since when is 55 considered elderly?

[ChrisGeorge]

Interesting but ghoulish story here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ha-Thomas.html

Yes it is gruesome though I am a bit surprised that people on a Jack the Ripper site would find the story overly gruesome. Still, it's a very interesting story and it is amazing that the murder victim's skull was found after all these years, and in the back garden of a house belonging to Sir David Attenborough no less.

Chris

[Bob Hinton]

Yes it is gruesome though I am a bit surprised that people on a Jack the Ripper site would find the story overly gruesome. Still, it's a very interesting story and it is amazing that the murder victim's skull was found after all these years, and in the back garden of a house belonging to Sir David Attenborough no less.

Chris

I think it was the bit about boiling down the body for eatables that tipped the scales here!

[Phil H]

On the positive side, the "dripping" was probably tasty and nourishing and more than the local kids usually got.

Phil

[Zodiac]

Lard buttys!!!

On the positive side, the "dripping" was probably tasty and nourishing and more than the local kids usually got.

Phil

Yes indeed, I wonder if they thought "it was nise"???
I'll get my coat...

Best wishes,
Zodiac.

[Bob Hinton]

Really?

Yes indeed, I wonder if they thought "it was nise"???
I'll get my coat...

Best wishes,
Zodiac.

Actually Zodiac raises an excellent point here. Presumably at the time of the Ripper murders this case was still being talked about for the cannibalism aspect if nothing else. I wonder if the author of the letter put in that bit just to make it even more horrifying?

[Stephen Thomas]

Thanks for the link, Bob.

The Old Bailey transcript of the 1879 trial makes for heavy reading but towards the end who should pop up but Thomas Bond giving a fascinating analysis of the remains.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18790630-653-offence-1&div=t18790630-653#highlight