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  • #31
    Originally posted by Harry D View Post
    All she "established" is that someone with the same mtDNA profile as Sickert wrote one of the Ripper letters. Which sounds good, but then you realise there are hundreds if not thousands of potential matches. And that's assuming the DNA testing was accurate in the first place.
    Actually, possibly millions of individuals.

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    • #32
      Time to head to Letters and Communications

      Originally posted by GUT View Post
      I've always had a "soft spot" for From Hell, still on the fence but think there's a chance.

      Now if it was then in my opinion "Openshaw" must be a good chance.
      I like "From Hell" as well, but haven't given much thought to the Openshaw letter. Think I'll do some reading...
      Pat D. https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...rt/reading.gif
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      Von Konigswald: Jack the Ripper plays shuffleboard. -- Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, c.1970.
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      • #33
        Did Sickert own the same brand/type of paper used in the diary?

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        • #34
          Originally posted by Pcdunn View Post
          Thanks, GUT. Well, I don't think Sickert wrote ALL the letters, but he was enough of a crime buff that he may well have written some of them.


          I'm a huge crime buff but I don't write letter's to the police claiming to be the killer, especially during on ongoing investigation. Huge red flag if you ask me. It baffling how people blow off the probability that he was sending in letters to the police claiming to be Jack. And those that accept that he sent letters have the attitude of "just because he sent them doesn't make him a suspect, he was just a crime buff". Come on get real, he needs to be taken serious as a suspect. Or at least a person of interest.

          -Dan

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          • #35
            Originally posted by dantheman View Post
            I'm a huge crime buff but I don't write letter's to the police claiming to be the killer, especially during on ongoing investigation. Huge red flag if you ask me. It baffling how people blow off the probability that he was sending in letters to the police claiming to be Jack. And those that accept that he sent letters have the attitude of "just because he sent them doesn't make him a suspect, he was just a crime buff". Come on get real, he needs to be taken serious as a suspect. Or at least a person of interest.

            -Dan
            That's as Ma be but it doesn't make "Case Closed".

            There are lots who deserve to be POIs they can't all be Jack.
            G U T

            There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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            • #36
              Originally posted by GUT View Post
              That's as Ma be but it doesn't make "Case Closed".

              There are lots who deserve to be POIs they can't all be Jack.
              Definitely not Case Closed but he should be rated high among POI and maybe even suspects.

              -Dan

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              • #37
                Originally posted by dantheman View Post
                Definitely not Case Closed but he should be rated high among POI and maybe even suspects.

                -Dan
                Why, bloke wrote letters sent messages in Yorkshire Ripper, wasn't him though. No reason to rate aletter writer high when there were literally hundreds of letter writers.

                (have you read letters from hell).
                G U T

                There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Phil Carter View Post
                  It boils down to this.

                  Proof of being the writer of a letter does not prove the same person being a killer.
                  If Kosminski, Druitt and Co wrote one of the letters.. it would mean..
                  They wrote a letter. Thats all.

                  As long as there is no tangible link to the act of murder.. Which there isn't.. then this isnt even circumstantial evidence.

                  The craving to find "guilt" must be tempered methinks.


                  Just my opinion.



                  Phil
                  Well said, Phil!

                  I am always writing letters, admittedly not "Dear Boss" and "From Hell" letters . . . but as far as I know I have never killed anyone, except in print. Ha ha.

                  Cheers

                  Chris
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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
                    Well said, Phil!

                    I am always writing letters, admittedly not "Dear Boss" and "From Hell" letters . . . but as far as I know I have never killed anyone, except in print. Ha ha.

                    Cheers

                    Chris
                    Hello Chris,

                    Many thanks ����

                    Maybe I'm being simplistic in my approach.
                    Maybe I can see something very simple that many choose to ignore or simply don't want to see.

                    Anyone writing a book..employing researchers at high rates to enhance the theory that has basically ignored rule no.1 (a letter is not anything but a letter)..is contributing only to one thing.
                    Keeping a myth going. And the paid researchers are doing exactly the same thing. Scruples? None, it seems. Sorry. I see things very clearly. As long as it makes a bit of money.. why not cash in syndrome.
                    It is sadly repeated time and time again in this subject.
                    Enhancing towards the goal of finding an answer has been demoted behind enhancing myths in order to keep the game going.
                    Sad.
                    Imho.



                    Phil
                    Last edited by Phil Carter; 03-03-2017, 03:36 AM.
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                    Accountability? ....

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by GUT View Post
                      I've always had a "soft spot" for From Hell, still on the fence but think there's a chance.

                      Now if it was then in my opinion "Openshaw" must be a good chance.
                      wasn't it the Openshaw letter the one she had tested and claimed sickerts DNA was found?
                      "Is all that we see or seem
                      but a dream within a dream?"

                      -Edgar Allan Poe


                      "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                      quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                      -Frederick G. Abberline

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by GUT View Post
                        Why, bloke wrote letters sent messages in Yorkshire Ripper, wasn't him though. No reason to rate aletter writer high when there were literally hundreds of letter writers.

                        (have you read letters from hell).
                        I do see your point, but any detective interested in catching the killer would want to speak to the author of the letters...right? Ok, so that makes him a POI.

                        Doubt's I have about WS being Jtr is that he would have stopped killing after MJK and lived out the remainder of his life dying at an old age. That to me is the most damaging when trying to pin the killings on WS. As we all know these type of serial killers (usually) don't stop until their dead or in jail..

                        -Dan

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
                          Well said, Phil!

                          I am always writing letters, admittedly not "Dear Boss" and "From Hell" letters . . . but as far as I know I have never killed anyone, except in print. Ha ha.

                          Cheers

                          Chris
                          I wouldn't dignify Carter's post with a response, but I'm surprised that you miss the point, Chris. Patricia Cornwell isn't claiming that Walter Sickert was the murderer because he wrote a letter purporting to be from Jack the Ripper. That letter is simply part of an accumulation of evidence which she sincerely believes points to a specific conclusion. Whether she's right or not remains to be seen, but it doesn't stand or fall just on the letter.

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                          • #43
                            I would focus on this basic fact: all of the so-called Whitechapel Murders took place within a remarkably small area-wasn't it around one square mile? And this area was, in itself, a complete labyrinth: http://www.casebook.org/press_report...l?printer=true. In other words, a non local would surely keep getting hopelessly lost.

                            Therefore, I don't think you need to be an eminent geographical profiler to conclude that the odds of the killer being a local are overwhelming; and that, of course, was John Douglas' conclusion.

                            Now, as far as I'm aware Sickert had no known connection to Whitechapel, and might even have been in France at the relevant time. Hence, on geographical grounds alone I would say that he was highly unlikely to have been the killer.

                            That said, I believe he had rooms in Mornington Crescent, where part of the Tottenham Torso was discovered!
                            Last edited by John G; 03-03-2017, 02:03 PM.

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by PaulB View Post
                              I wouldn't dignify Carter's post with a response, but I'm surprised that you miss the point, Chris. Patricia Cornwell isn't claiming that Walter Sickert was the murderer because he wrote a letter purporting to be from Jack the Ripper. That letter is simply part of an accumulation of evidence which she sincerely believes points to a specific conclusion. Whether she's right or not remains to be seen, but it doesn't stand or fall just on the letter.
                              Hi Paul
                              Good to see you posting again!

                              It was the Openshaw letter that she claims has Sickerts DNA on it correct?
                              "Is all that we see or seem
                              but a dream within a dream?"

                              -Edgar Allan Poe


                              "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                              quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                              -Frederick G. Abberline

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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by John G View Post
                                I would focus on this basic fact: all of the so-called Whitechapel Murders took place within a remarkably small area-wasn't it around one square mile? And this area was, in itself, a complete labyrinth: http://www.casebook.org/press_report...l?printer=true. In other words, a non local would surely keep getting hopelessly lost.

                                Therefore, I don't think you need to be an eminent geographical profiler to conclude that the odds of the killer being a local are overwhelming; and that, of course, was John Douglas' conclusion.

                                Now, as far as I'm aware Sickert had no known connection to Whitechapel, and might even have been in France at the relevant time. Hence, on geographical grounds alone I would say that he was highly unlikely to have been the killer.

                                That said, I believe he had rooms in Mornington Crescent, where part of the Tottenham Torso was discovered!
                                totally agree
                                "Is all that we see or seem
                                but a dream within a dream?"

                                -Edgar Allan Poe


                                "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                                quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                                -Frederick G. Abberline

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