On this day 123 years ago, Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim. But who was this serial killer? This new e-fit finally puts a face to Carl Feigenbaum, a key suspect from Germany.
Posted on 08/30/2011 7:20:13 PM PDT by decimon
Jack the Ripper is the world's most famous cold case - the identity of the man who brutally murdered five women in London's East End in autumn 1888 remains a mystery.
More than 200 suspects have been named. But to Ripper expert Trevor Marriott, a former murder squad detective, German merchant Carl Feigenbaum is the top suspect.
Convicted of murdering his landlady in Manhattan, Feigenbaum died in the electric chair in New York's Sing Sing prison in 1894. His lawyer suspected him of the Ripper murders too.
No photos of Feigenbaum exist. So Marriott has produced this new e-fit for BBC One's National Treasures Live, created from the description on the admittance form when he was in prison on remand in New York.
Why does Marriott think Feigenbaum is Jack the Ripper? Evidence, in the form of police documents and hundreds of letters to the authorities and newspapers, give us some clues.
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On this day 123 years ago, Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim. But who was this serial killer? This new e-fit finally puts a face to Carl Feigenbaum, a key suspect from Germany.
Slice of time ping.
Hey it is the Wiki Leaks guy!
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother!
Looks like one of those late night comedians who the yerpes get their liberal news from!
So Christopher Walken produced for Blue Oyster Cult AND invented a time machine?
Looks like the Norweigian mass murderer.
What? It wasn’t Bush? (s/)
Didn’t he drown himself?
Yeah, that’s him.
Jack The Ripper vs Chris the Dripper
The sketch oddly looks like a younger Chris Matthews. Is that a zit on the chin?
Looks like Conan O’Brien’s weird albino brother.
More cowbell!
GMTA! Ya beat me by 40 seconds...
Hey it is the Wiki Leaks guy!
You’re right! LOL
The ripper got away with his murders because he killed prostitutes. It is almost impossible to trace the last houses of a prostitute. Murders of prostitutes are always difficult to solve.
Not to mention the fact that there wasn't usually sufficient interest, by the police, so solve murders of prostitutes. Just the sheer number of murders committed by the Ripper scared the middle and upper classes sufficiently that they put a lot of pressure on the police. But even that pressure couldn't produce actionable evidence.
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