Posted on 09/07/2014 8:44:28 PM PDT by lbryce
I personally have always thought that a number of the earlier knife assaults, including the Tabram murder, were Ripper crimes. Like most mentally ill people, the impulses that eventually come to control serial murderers progress throughout their lives. The escalating violence and depravity of the Ripper's crimes seem to follow that pattern, and there is, as is true of a lot of complex behaviors, an element of "confidence" involved as well. At some point he committed his first violent assault(s). It was probably not a murder. Kosminski had such a history.
Coincident with the Green River Killer, who also targeted prostitutes, there were five [maybe six or seven] murders in Spokane, WA, in the same time-frame. Those victims were also hookers. The MO was similar to the GRK. The cases were only differentiated after the fact because two different police departments, and later two different task forces had jurisdiction. The question of overlap was considered.
Muddle it all with much poorer communication and turf protection between the City Police, Scotland Yard, add a century, and note that there are dissimilarities in even the five canonical murders which make you wonder if the same man was involved, and you have a very interesting case file indeed.
But this also brings us back to chronology issues. Mary Kelly, the last of the canonical five, died in early November of 1888. If Kosminski is the Ripper, why did he commit no more murders before his committal, a lapse of 27 months?
I don't know. Do we know why Gary Ridgeway or Dennis Rader stopped for periods of time? It's not unprecedented for a serial killer to stop for awhile.
Yeah, true, although it seems like if Mary Kelly was his last victim he was in “full-frenzy” mode at that point, so backing off seems strange. The other thing is, I partially misspoke: Kosminiski not only committed no more murders after Mary Kelly for quite a long time [if at all], but once committed he was not known as a particularly violent inmate. A very strange remission, although admittedly we know pretty much zero about serial killers who “retire.”
I believe I addressed that in another post on this thread.
I said that it could be proof he killed one prostitute, but not that he was a serial killer.
My bad for not fully communicating that to you.
There were apparently many of the 'underclass' hanging out in the red light districts (imagine that) who probably all had a history of sexual violence and mayhem. The police didn't patrol the area just like the cops of today don't cruise the ghetto.
There were likely several 'jack the rippers'. Maybe Komminski killed one prostitute, maybe he didn't. He certainly didn't kill the one that was murdered after he was thrown in the loony bin.
Yes. We accept the appearance of justice, instead of true justice.
And, as you say, (in reverse) it was true then.
Agree with everything! And I’ve always thought Martha Tabram was a Ripper murder. Everything I’ve read about it made it seem so obvious, at least to me.
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