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Why Jack the Ripper's Identity May Soon Be Proven
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Posted on 08/05/2015 8:24:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Despite the length of time that has passed since he first terrorized London, enthusiasm and interest in Jack the Ripper has never been stronger. Which is why we're closer than ever to unmasking him (3:21)


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1 posted on 08/05/2015 8:24:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I thought they had figured it out, some 35 times so far...lol


2 posted on 08/05/2015 8:25:40 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: Cold Heat

In the words of Bullwinkle J Moose, “this time for sure!”


3 posted on 08/05/2015 8:27:47 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Obama loves America the way OJ loved Nicole)
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4 posted on 08/05/2015 8:30:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: nickcarraway

“Proven”?

I doubt it


5 posted on 08/05/2015 8:30:45 PM PDT by GeronL (Phony Crony Trump is a Chump, Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Probably trying to build a scientific consensus, similar to glowbull warming..

Maybe they can get Obama to endorse it and this mystery will be over.[sarc]


6 posted on 08/05/2015 8:32:38 PM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: nickcarraway

I’ll bet he was a Muslim.


7 posted on 08/05/2015 8:33:06 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: nickcarraway

Already solved;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2yVZCVLK3E


8 posted on 08/05/2015 8:33:49 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Cold Heat

After I clicked past the preliminary ads I got to the the first advertisements I learned there was a killer named then there was the second advertisement and it was “Jack The Ripper” and please click past the next ads I clicked so then I finally just think maybe James Smithson killed those people. So that’s that. Sorry if all the ads confused me but I suppose the man whose legacy is supported by taxpayer dollars - James Smithson was Jack the Ripper.


9 posted on 08/05/2015 8:36:11 PM PDT by golux
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To: nickcarraway

Hasn’t been said for a while...

It must be BOOOSH’S FAULT!!!!!


10 posted on 08/05/2015 8:43:05 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: nickcarraway

“Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.”
General Jack D. Ripper


11 posted on 08/05/2015 8:43:21 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: nickcarraway
He works at Planned Parenthood.
12 posted on 08/05/2015 8:46:07 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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13 posted on 08/05/2015 8:50:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

THAT’S IT! Bullwinkle is Jack the Ripper. Now we can finally move on to other unsolved crimes.


14 posted on 08/05/2015 9:41:58 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: stylecouncilor

...work ping....


15 posted on 08/05/2015 9:46:51 PM PDT by onedoug
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DAMN; made me laugh so hard scotch went out my nose.


16 posted on 08/05/2015 9:48:34 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Okay I think I figured out who they are talking about:

“3:40 or 3:45 AM — Polly Nichols’ body is discovered in Buck’s Row by Charles Cross, a carman, on his way to work at Pickfords in the City Road., and Robert Paul who joins him at his request. “Come and look over here, there’s a woman.” Cross calls to Paul. Cross believes she is dead. Her hands and face are cold but the arms above the elbow and legs are still warm. Paul believes he feels a faint heartbeat. “I think she’s breathing,” he says “but it is little if she is.”

The two men agree that they do not want to be late for work and after arranging Nichols’ skirts to give her some decency, decide to alert the first police officer they meet on their way. They eventually meet PC Jonas Mizen at the junction of Hanbury Street and Baker’s Row and tell him of their find.

In the meantime, Nichols’ body has been found by PC John Neil, 97J. He signals to PC Thain who then joins him and the two are soon joined by Mizen. Thain calls for Dr. Rees Ralph Llewellyn, who resides nearby. The two return a few minutes later (around 3:50 A.M.) and Dr. Llewellyn pronounces life to have been extinct “but a few minutes.””

http://www.casebook.org/victims/polly.html

So they seem to be referring to Charles Cross, the carman, as their Ripper suspect. Seems like a good one to investigate, since this murder seems to have been interrupted before he completed his ritual. So if the carman wasn’t the one who interrupted the Ripper, he very well could have been the Ripper himself.


17 posted on 08/05/2015 10:41:34 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping


18 posted on 08/05/2015 11:00:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Ping


19 posted on 08/05/2015 11:37:02 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve never believed the narrative that it was a royal doctor. Based on today’s forensics, it would have to be someone unassuming who fit in.


20 posted on 08/06/2015 3:14:42 AM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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