Posted on 11/03/2011 9:45:21 PM PDT by ReformationFan
If the women died from complications from an abortion, an autopsy might discover the cause and point police to looking for an abortionist doctor -- unless the body was so mutilated that no such autopsy finding could be done.
I'm not saying I believe the story, but it seems as plausible as many explanations I've heard.
“Still not sure how Cornwell has the gall to dodge the fact that Sickert appears to have been in France during the murders.”
That and the fact that if the Ripper wrote all those letters to the police as alleged by Cornwall he wouldn’t have enough time to be out a-rippin’!
(there were over 600 letters know today, from all sorts of postal places; London, France, Sweden, Germany, USA...)
“...my ancestors lived in that area during the time of his reign of terror”
any stories passed down in your family?
Same here. The Kosminski suspect was even in the workhouse during the same year as one of my ancestors from the area. Her husband, my great X? grandfather ran a lodging house in the East end.
Note: this topic is from 11/03/2011. Thanks ReformationFan. A re-ping. Stumbled over this while looking for something else, reacquainting myself with the vast GGG archives, and had forgotten about this fascinating article. Saw another piece about how Scotland Yard fights to keep the Ripper files secret to protect the identities -- get this -- of the informants, who were active 130 years ago.
Saw another piece about how Scotland Yard fights to keep the Ripper files secret to protect the identities — get this — of the informants, who were active 130 years ago.
Government logic amazes me sometimes.
Veddy intedesting...
One of the many Jack the Ripper movies/tv series touched on a doctor possibly being involved in the murders. I wish I could remember which one it was. I clearly recall the police searching the doctor’s work rooms, and finding a preserved uterus among the collection. The doctor’s “morgue” I believe, was part of the hospital he worked at. I don’t recall the doctor’s name, or if the true name was mentioned in the film/program. I tried searching some of the more recent Ripper programs, but couldn’t come up with anything specific. For some reason, the 1988 Ripper mini-series with Michael Caine first came to my mind, but I couldn’t find a character named Sir John Williams portrayed in the series.
LE agencies don’t like to release files of the investigations they bungle.
Just to be dramatic (as a drama queen is), an alleged expert from the Yard testified from behind a curtain so he couldn’t be IDed by anyone present; said descendants of those put away (for the Ripper crimes? none were!) could hold a grudge and hunt down descendants of informants. That’s obviously stupid.
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