Sam Flynn

[DVV]

But maybe Gareth Williams will post again occasionally. He spoke (on Koslowski in Poland) at the September 2010 Whitechapel conference.

Maria, I hope so.

But Schumann above everything.

[DVV]

There's currently a thread over on JTR Forums just discussing the very fact that we have lost so many brilliant researchers over the past few years.....and, funnily enough, almost always for exactly the same set of reasons. Might be time for an attitude overhaul in Ripperology if we want these people to stay on, eh?

Cheers,
Adam.

That I'm sure of, Adam, but at the same time the fact that X or Y are still discussing whether the ripper did suffocate or strangle his victims does not stop me thinking that ripperology could make significant progress if only people like Sam Flynn were around right now, however dull are the times, and perhaps precisely because of that.

Now my english being broken to much, I sure escape.

[Adam Went]

There's currently a thread over on JTR Forums just discussing the very fact that we have lost so many brilliant researchers over the past few years.....and, funnily enough, almost always for exactly the same set of reasons. Might be time for an attitude overhaul in Ripperology if we want these people to stay on, eh?

Cheers,
Adam.

[mariab]

But maybe Gareth Williams will post again occasionally. He spoke (on Koslowski in Poland) at the September 2010 Whitechapel conference.

[Robert]

Yep, afraid so. I'm waiting now for Stephen and Howard to say they're closing down the boards and that will complete the day. I had some bad news about another poster too. What a bloody rotten day.

[DVV]

Oh dear, not Chris Scott...!

[Robert]

Gareth is a very good Ripperologist and a very funny man too. I have just become aware that Chris Scott is thinking of giving up Ripperology. We are losing too many excellent people.

[DVV]

I cannot express how much I miss Sam Flynn nor how much I feel the boards are objectively missing him.

I respect his absence but his contribution to ripperology cannot end like this imo - whatever his other interests.

Gareth's suspect didn't go further than "unknown local", as I recall, which is far less glamour than real names, but what a wonderful book could he write about this not-glamour JtR, one suspects....

How comes that I have always, even when I had to disagree (cause I was right as ever), held his posts in the utmost respect, as if he were both Sugden and SPE ?

Am I the only one to feel this way ?

Wait, I'm not telling you he's God, but he is truly unique.

I hope he will appreciate the uncheikhable broken English that caracaterizze my posts from the very start-itself.