[KosmicKitty]

Funny how a few murders committed almost 130 year ago can still make the headlines.

Patricia Cornwall pinned on Sickert, didn’t she?

[ravenwolf]

Funny how a few murders committed almost 130 year ago can still make the headlines.

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Yes but lets hope there is no such thing as reincarnation because they might just find out who he is today, burr.

[CommerceComet]

Patricia Cornwall pinned on Sickert, didn’t she?

Yes but most criminologists feel that her theory has been debunked. Apparently, there is evidence that Sickert was in France when four of the five murders were committed. The only DNA results showed that Sickert was one of several hundred thousand persons in England who could have been the sender of one of the Ripper letters. Even had the DNA shown a reliable match to Sickert, it would have only shown that he sent the letter, not that he did the murder. There are a lot of letters which purported to be from Jack the Ripper but only a few are believed legitimate.

[SunkenCiv]

Yup, there’s at least one topic in that list above, the one about the obsessed author. :’) There’s DNA evidence of a sort involved with that ID as well.

[Scoutmaster]

Patricia Cornwall pinned on Sickert, didn’t she?

Yes. She whiffed on that one.