The WORST Ripper Suspect

[mklhawley]

Prince Albert Morrow was a 42 year old American doctor training at the Royal London Hospital whose obsession/specialty was diseases of the female uterus caused by the unsafe sexual practices of prostitutes, and the diseases contracted from them by men.

He couldn't stand prostitutes.

Thanks

JM

Hi JM,

And to think, just across the street a Chamber of Horrors wax museum was displaying each murder victim (beginning with Martha Tabram) sometimes within hours of the murder. The crowds filled the street each night. I wonder if Morrow took a gander?

Sincerely,
Mike

[ukranianphil]

I think the worst ripper suspect was none other than Dr. Joseph Bell.
The man who gave Arthur Conan Doyle his Idea for Sherlock Holmes.
He was in London at the time of the double event.

I think he was the person who gave the Druitt family the idea that
Montague was the ripper, to knock them off the track.

A Mr M. J. Druitt, said to be a doctor & of good family, who disappeared at the time of the Miller's Court murder, & whose body (which was said to have been upwards of a month in the water) was found in the Thames on 31st December - or about 7 weeks after that murder. He was sexually insane and from private information I have little doubt but that his own family believed him to have been the murderer.

I think that private information was from Dr. Joseph Bell. The worst ripper suspect.

[johns]

Was the King of Belgium a suspect at one point? If so then I'd put him as #1 worst suspect.

[Mayerling]

Was the King of Belgium a suspect at one point? If so then I'd put him as #1 worst suspect.

I like it. He thought he'd get practice on the ladies in the East End for what he wished to do in the Congo for profits...big profits!!

Jeff

[Cogidubnus]

I like it. He thought he'd get practice on the ladies in the East End for what he wished to do in the Congo for profits...big profits!!

It was a plot between him and Lees - big prophets...

Sorry...

Dave

[RivkahChaya]

Prince Albert Morrow was a 42 year old American doctor training at the Royal London Hospital whose obsession/specialty was diseases of the female uterus caused by the unsafe sexual practices of prostitutes, and the diseases contracted from them by men.

He couldn't stand prostitutes.

Thanks

JM

Was his first name seriously "Prince"? Like Prince Rogers Nelson, aka, "The artist formerly known as Prince." Cripes, I hope that was his mother's maiden name. I knew a guy named "Baron," because it was his mother's maiden name. His middle name was Michael, and he went by "Mike." He didn't like people even to know his real name was "Baron."

When I worked at a high school, there was a girl there named "Princess." I don't know what the hell her parents were thinking. You could see the teachers practically choke on it the first day when they called attendance, and some of them still had trouble saying it with a straight face months later. I'll bet that can make you want to smack someone, if not actually commit murder.

[TomTomKent]

Nt wanting to sound like a troll, but I just read the Vincnet Van Gogh thread. It is hard to beat.

Sorry. That seems very much like somebody who thought "wouldn't it be cool if this guy was the Ripper" and tried to make the idea work than trying to "solve" the crime, and failing utterly. Worse on reading the thread again the whole thing seems to boil down to: "The chap was obviously disturbed...Bet he could be the Ripper!" Which is a terrible way to present somebody who was genuinely tormeneted by mental illness. Even if they do happen to be a bit on the famous side.

[Ginger]

Mary Kelly. Driven mad by trying to understand the French, she returned to England filled with an unaccountable and uncontrollable desire to annihilate her own countrymen. She proceeded cautiously at first, winning the confidence of her victims one by one, then luring them to deserted streets and yards. By the night of the Double Event, she had realized that she'd have to step the action up a bit if she hoped to eventually murder everyone in England. In her unaccustomed haste, she let slip clues that alerted her acquaintances to her true nature. Banding together, they administered their own justice to her on the eve of the Lord Mayor's Parade. Most of the residents of Dorset Street and Miller's Court were involved, and as would be expected in trying to coordinate an alibi among large numbers of people, some of the stories don't quite match up.

Now I feel like writing a book.

[Limehouse]

Mary Kelly. Driven mad by trying to understand the French, she returned to England filled with an unaccountable and uncontrollable desire to annihilate her own countrymen. She proceeded cautiously at first, winning the confidence of her victims one by one, then luring them to deserted streets and yards. By the night of the Double Event, she had realized that she'd have to step the action up a bit if she hoped to eventually murder everyone in England. In her unaccustomed haste, she let slip clues that alerted her acquaintances to her true nature. Banding together, they administered their own justice to her on the eve of the Lord Mayor's Parade. Most of the residents of Dorset Street and Miller's Court were involved, and as would be expected in trying to coordinate an alibi among large numbers of people, some of the stories don't quite match up.

Now I feel like writing a book.

That's quite brilliant Ginger - and sounds much more plausible than Ms Cornwell's theory - or that crazy mush dreamed up by the chap who thinks the Ripper was Van Gogh, aided by a collection of doorknobs and dead dogs.

Now start writing!

[RivkahChaya]

Mary Kelly. Driven mad by trying to understand the French, she returned to England filled with an unaccountable and uncontrollable desire to annihilate her own countrymen. She proceeded cautiously at first, winning the confidence of her victims one by one, then luring them to deserted streets and yards. By the night of the Double Event, she had realized that she'd have to step the action up a bit if she hoped to eventually murder everyone in England. In her unaccustomed haste, she let slip clues that alerted her acquaintances to her true nature. Banding together, they administered their own justice to her on the eve of the Lord Mayor's Parade. Most of the residents of Dorset Street and Miller's Court were involved, and as would be expected in trying to coordinate an alibi among large numbers of people, some of the stories don't quite match up.

Now I feel like writing a book.

It even explains the left-handed/right-handed thing, because some of the killers were one, and some the other.

Also, Mary Jane Kelly helped Hauptmann kidnap the Lindbergh baby.

OK, I went to far on that last one. Seriously, if this thread had a winner, I think we'd have it, but keep 'em coming anyway. I'm glad I started this thread.

[DVV]

There are actually two different categories of bad suspects.
Those who are there just for fun (Van Gogh, Elephant Man), and those proposed more "seriously" (Macnaghten, Sickert...).
The second category is far more despicable imo.

[Phil Carter]

Aaron Kosminski or Montague John Druitt or Mikail Ostrog

There is nothing to choose betweejn the three.. all under the catagory of the worst Ripper suspect ever, imo.



Phil

[DVV]

Druitt is a poetic suspect, Phil.

[Robert]

"Druitt is a poetic suspect, Phil."


Here lies the body of Montague Druitt.
Killed five women, never knew it.

[DVV]

Awesome, Robert - as usual !