Was it Van Gogh, Carroty Mustache?

[Sam Flynn]

I propose the poet Rimbaud.

Memorably portrayed by Sylvester Stallone on the silver screen.

(Nice bit of alliteration there)

[GUT]

Here’s just one of his last bout

http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=6358&highlight=Gogh

[GUT]

"Did Jack the Ripper like to make little drawings on his letters? Yes."

Using fake news like above, you just kinda know it's going to be another stitch up job.

Do a search.

Not his first go.

Claimed to have a book coming last time.

Yeah sure.

[DirectorDave]

"Did Jack the Ripper like to make little drawings on his letters? Yes."

Using fake news like above, you just kinda know it's going to be another stitch up job.

[Abby Normal]

I propose the poet Rimbaud. He wrote the poem which he is famous for.. the drunken boat. The rippers victims were known to be drunk. Therefore Rimbaud was the ripper.

Double post

[Abby Normal]

I propose the poet Rimbaud. He wrote the poem which he is famous for.. the drunken boat. The rippers victims were known to be drunk. Therefore Rimbaud was the ripper.



And I’m pretty sure he had a brown mustache.

[DJA]

People of interest to Ripperologists jerryd.
Sargent painted three portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson,Major Henry Smith's cousin ...... no doubt the inspiration for Inspector Newcomen who searched Mr Hyde's loft in that Square.
Strange that he was so swift to attend Mitre Square.

[jerryd]

We also have the painter, John Singer Sargent, who beginning in 1886 occupied the former studio of Whistler on Tite Street becoming neighbors with the likes of Oscar Wilde, Melville MacNaghten, Marie Belloc- Lowndes (The Lodger) and the Shelley Theatre on Tite Street. The Shelley estate was not far down on the corner of Tite Street and the Chelsea embankment.

[Sam Flynn]

However my real suspects here are Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Monet.

To say nothing about Degas, without whom the Victorian streets would have been a lot darker.

[DJA]

ROFL. Overlooked

[Abby Normal]

Of the two painters/roomates Gauguin was more belligerent. In December 1888 he actually stood outside of the prison where the multiple murderer Prado was then being executed - so Gauguin had an interest in current events regarding crime.

However my real suspects here are Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Monet. Seurat's "Pointilism" (I feel) shows a fascination about dots of paint hiding a secret love of droplets of blood splattering on the ground or clothing. Also, his name (in the U.S., anyway) resembles "Surratt", as in John and Mary Surratt of the Lincoln Conspiracy, so he probably knew Doctor Tumblety.

Toulouse-Lautrec is a key suspect because so-far nobody suggested a suave, aristocratic, French dwarf as the killer (highly suspicious to me). It was probably easy for him to do the murders and get away, as he'd be overlooked!

Monet had spent time in London, and done several paintings there. And his later series of paintings of his flower gardens at Givanchy was a cover - who'd suspect him of a series of urban crimes when he loved to only paint country scenes in his garden (also a convenient hideaway).

None of the other major painters from France suggest a connection to me. Maybe to you if you consider them. Too bad no professional ballet dancers were killed, or Degas could have entered my suspect list.

Also one American painter (or Anglo-American) can be considered, as at least the victims included one parent. James McNeil Whistler working off a "mother fixation". Too bad nobody heard any symbolic "whistling" in the dark after each killing.

Jeff

LOL!!!

[Mayerling]

Vincent van Gogh was at his most productive from August to December 1888 while living at Aries.
Kept company with Gauguin from 23 October until late December 1888 when he severed his left ear with a razor.
Sales down Dale?

Of the two painters/roomates Gauguin was more belligerent. In December 1888 he actually stood outside of the prison where the multiple murderer Prado was then being executed - so Gauguin had an interest in current events regarding crime.

However my real suspects here are Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Monet. Seurat's "Pointilism" (I feel) shows a fascination about dots of paint hiding a secret love of droplets of blood splattering on the ground or clothing. Also, his name (in the U.S., anyway) resembles "Surratt", as in John and Mary Surratt of the Lincoln Conspiracy, so he probably knew Doctor Tumblety.

Toulouse-Lautrec is a key suspect because so-far nobody suggested a suave, aristocratic, French dwarf as the killer (highly suspicious to me). It was probably easy for him to do the murders and get away, as he'd be overlooked!

Monet had spent time in London, and done several paintings there. And his later series of paintings of his flower gardens at Givanchy was a cover - who'd suspect him of a series of urban crimes when he loved to only paint country scenes in his garden (also a convenient hideaway).

None of the other major painters from France suggest a connection to me. Maybe to you if you consider them. Too bad no professional ballet dancers were killed, or Degas could have entered my suspect list.

Also one American painter (or Anglo-American) can be considered, as at least the victims included one parent. James McNeil Whistler working off a "mother fixation". Too bad nobody heard any symbolic "whistling" in the dark after each killing.

Jeff

[DJA]

Vincent van Gogh was at his most productive from August to December 1888 while living at Aries.
Kept company with Gauguin from 23 October until late December 1888 when he severed his left ear with a razor.
Sales down Dale?

[Sam Flynn]

The author of the "Ear Boss" letter finally revealed.

[richardh]

This will be an interesting thread :-)