Only because their parents made them be hairdressers. Constant hair cutting makes them want to take out their rage on people...
We all know that most hairdressers and barbers would rather be lumberjacks...
Posted on 09/06/2014 5:59:54 PM PDT by KosmicKitty
It is the greatest murder mystery of all time, a puzzle that has perplexed criminologists for more than a century and spawned books, films and myriad theories ranging from the plausible to the utterly bizarre.
But now, thanks to modern forensic science, The Mail on Sunday can exclusively reveal the true identity of Jack the Ripper, the serial killer responsible for at least five grisly murders in Whitechapel in East London during the autumn of 1888.
DNA evidence has now shown beyond reasonable doubt which one of six key suspects commonly cited in connection with the Ripper’s reign of terror was the actual killer – and we reveal his identity.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Now, THAT’s cool. Their investigations arrived at the true culprit without DNA.
I read that book for free with kindle
It was a great read
Elementary...
Only because their parents made them be hairdressers. Constant hair cutting makes them want to take out their rage on people...
We all know that most hairdressers and barbers would rather be lumberjacks...
At the invitation of a friend in Scotland Yard, I toured the Black Museum.
The Black Museum is inside the Scotland Yard building and is a very interesting place, a relatively small place and is chocked full of sensitive (and some classified) displays of all sorts of crime-related items that spanned centuries.
In this museum was an autobiography book published by the Chief Inspector in charge of the ripper investigation.
I saw the notes referenced in the article so the article is correct in stating: “Chief Inspector Donald Swanson, the officer in charge of the investigation, had named him in his notes: Aaron Kosminski, a Polish Jew who had fled to London with his family, escaping the Russian pogroms, in the early 1880s.”
When the police identified him they knew he did it and, yes, they thought they had enough evidence to prosecute but the curator conducting the personal tour stated the police did not proceed with the prosecution because evidence, while strong, was also very much circumstantial and they received political pressure not to prosecute. Something to do with the fact he was a Jewish refugee and there was a huge anti-Semitic movement in Europe at the time and the UK was also surging in that direction, so politically, it would have been dangerous to prosecute.
Seems the UK was even back then sensitive to PC influences. At any rate, the guy was committed and when he was released, he was under constant police supervision 24/7, living with his brother. (The article is wrong about him being committed the rest of his life).
This piece of evidence has been well known for decades by serious Ripper writers. . .and many did receive permission to examine the book in the museum and many saw the evidence with their own eyes. Interesting this article doesn’t mention where those notes are and if he reviewed them himself.
However, according to the curator, these writers did NOT write what they knew to be true because the Ripper story was an industry and they didn’t want to kill that industry, an industry they made their living in.
For example, if the "From Hell" letter sent to George Lusk, that included a human kidney, is actually real, then we would have to ask if Kosminski had good enough English skills to read and write. To which that answer I am not sure. But then again, not even sure if the letter is real.
If he could read cursive, then its more that possible that he could have written the “From Hell” letter.
A common situation among even native speakers of English.
Yes I get that there were misspellings, but if the grammar was correct, it seems it like it would be an Englishman.
Germanic language is so completely different than English, so he'd have to be pretty damn smart to get that correct.
Thanks for the info on David Warner.
I've only known him as creepy/"off" somehow.
Bob Cratchitt is sympathetic.
Didn't know he played that character.
I'd enjoy seeing him in such a role.
Probably an illegal.
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