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According to some sites, Constance Kent was still alive when I was conceived in 1945. I was about 2 when I first heard of JtR. The first case I remember following while it was ongoing was the William Cook murder spree in 1950-51. The 1953 film Hitch-Hiker and the Doors song Riders on the Storm were supposedly base on the Cook case.
I'm 14 and I'd like to form a Jack the Ripper club. I'll be the president and I will be looking for a vice-president and a secretary. We'll meet three times a week and select our members. Now, what should we charge for dues?
Well, since you guys purge people who don't post, I guess this is as good a place as any to establish my bona fides. I'm 51 and read my first Ripper book when I was about nine. I think it was When London Walked in Terror by Cullen. I can't be certain though, it was a long time ago.
I managed to accumulate a pretty decent library over the years, but I largely stopped buying books on the subject in 1988 cause they were coming out far too often and too many of them were, quite frankly, kinda silly.
Rarest book.............Mad Humanity by L. Forbes Winslow, 1st ed, 1898.
Unfortunately, it would appear that he did not anticipate the source of his principle fame as the book doesn't even mention our friend Jack. Such is life.
The year I was born Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, but it all turned out ok because Lily the Pink was the UK Christmas number one
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