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Jack the Ripper's identity finally uncovered?
Telegraph.Co.Uk ^ | Saturday April 16 2011

Posted on 04/16/2011 9:17:07 AM PDT by Beowulf9

An historian has claimed to have discovered the real identity of Jack the Ripper, and believes the notorious Whitechapel murderer was also responsible for killing two more women.

Mei Trow used modern police forensic techniques, including psychological and geographical profiling, to identify Robert Mann, a morgue attendant, as the killer.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jacktheripper; london; morgueattendant; robertmann; whitechapel
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Another Jack the Ripper murder theory, but an interesting one.
1 posted on 04/16/2011 9:17:15 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

I think we get one of these about every 6 months, don’t we?


2 posted on 04/16/2011 9:21:29 AM PDT by FrogMom (There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: FrogMom

“I think we get one of these about every 6 months, don’t we?”

Yes, this particular one appeared Oct. 5, 2009. It’s old news.


3 posted on 04/16/2011 9:24:46 AM PDT by DrC
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To: FrogMom

At least....

Of course speculation on just who Ol’ Saucy Jack was is as big of a cottage industry as the JFK assassination.

(Personally, my money’s on Montague Druitt....)


4 posted on 04/16/2011 9:24:47 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
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To: Beowulf9

I watched a TV show many years ago in which they had a bunch of top detectives listen to everything which is known about the case.

I recall they had an agent from Interpol, one from the FBI etc.

After presenting all the evidence they had each one vote in secret who they thought it was.

Every single one of them voted for the Polish Butcher. Several suspects such as Queen Victoria’s Son were dismissed as absolutely impossible.


5 posted on 04/16/2011 9:26:08 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: FrogMom

I just bought my mother the Mariott book. Theory being he went from Whitechapel to NY, it’s true, a merchant marine did this and there were a couple of murders in NY similiar to Jack’s handiwork. He got the chair, (heheh, NY in the 1900s!)

Trevor Marriott, a retired detective thinks Jack the Ripper was a German merchant sailor Carl Feigenbaum.

http://www.theweeklyconstitutional.com/entertainment/sportslesiure/822-the-true-identity-of-jack-the-ripper-revealed


6 posted on 04/16/2011 9:27:40 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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I saw a show on Discovery about a year or so ago which profiled several investigators, each with a different idea about who they believe “the Ripper” to be. This guy was one of them. According to this investigator's research, Mann was even questioned during a (what is now called) Coroner's Inquest but was dismissed when he did not likely present as a viables suspect. One also believed that the Ripper was an American by the name of Francis Tumblety. I would not say any of the profiles were any more convincing than the others.

I don't think the identify of the Ripper will ever be conclusively found. Both him (assuming it was a man) and everyone else living during that time are long dead and forensics and investigative science were primitive to say the least back then compared to now. This is the Mother of all Cold Cases! All the investigators profiled did agree on one thing, however, and that was given the current state of forensic and investigative science it is extremely unlikely the Ripper would have escaped justice had the Whitechapel murders occurred today.

7 posted on 04/16/2011 9:31:37 AM PDT by NWFLConservative
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To: Beowulf9

There are so many Masonic symbols found in/around the murders (including the manner of dismemberment) that whoever did it was obviously a Mason.

The Polish butcher was not a Mason.

I believe there are quite a few of the suspects who were Masons.

Also, the Police Commissioner was a Mason, so this may explain why evidence, like the handwriting on the wall, was destroyed.


8 posted on 04/16/2011 9:34:07 AM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: Beowulf9

When are they going to claim he was a member of the Tea Party?


9 posted on 04/16/2011 9:38:42 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Beowulf9
The accompanying book, Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer, is published by Pen & Sword.

Well, that's an appropriate publisher.

10 posted on 04/16/2011 9:39:59 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: Beowulf9
Just a few miles from my house ... "Jack the Ripper Suspect's Grave"I've seen Tumuelty's grave - it's very close to Col. Patrick O'Rorke's, who died at Gettysburg.

11 posted on 04/16/2011 9:41:04 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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If alive today he would be convicted of Mannsalughter! Of course NOW would rather the PC term of PersonSlaughter be applied.

(PSST.... Silly Saturday and your taxes are due Monday)

12 posted on 04/16/2011 9:43:28 AM PDT by Young Werther ("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
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To: oh8eleven
He is buried with his family in Riverside Cemetery
Now that I've read what I copied and pasted I see it's technically wrong.
Both are buried in the old section of the Catholic cemetery - Holy Sepulchre, which is surrounded on three sides by Riverside Cemetery.
13 posted on 04/16/2011 9:45:30 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: BereanBrain

I have to say, in 1986, years before Patricia Cornwell claimed to have solved the ripper murders, Stephen Knight put out a book with the same theory, called Jack the Ripper, the Final Solution.

Claiming of course it was Walter Sickert the artist, whom I’ve read was out of the country for the murders most of the time and his last painting, which looked like Mary Jane Kelly, could’ve copied the pictures released in the newspaper prior to his painting being done.


14 posted on 04/16/2011 9:46:06 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: stylecouncilor

Ripper ping


15 posted on 04/16/2011 9:52:20 AM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: Beowulf9

Robert Mann


16 posted on 04/16/2011 9:53:07 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: BereanBrain; NWFLConservative

A while back I took a personal tour of the Black Museum in New Scotland Yard.

The curator has case notes and an interesting book published shortly after the retirement of (and I forget) one of the leading supervisors on the case. In the margin of the page that starts the chapter on the Ripper, in hand-written script in pencil, you can clearly read the “final chapter” (actually, a couple of paragraphs) that identify Aaron Kosminski as the Ripper and offers up proof.

When asked why he has not released this book and proof, the curator stated he has done so with various authors, but as he said, while the authors found the proof of the Rippers identity compelling and certainly close the case, it would hurt other books that they are writing. Why end a good run on a great conspiracy?

There are reasons the police did not arrest the Ripper, and it had to do with a number of things:

1) A Jew found to be the culprit would inflame already passionate anti-Jewish hostility in London and in Europe, and the commissioner at the time, under pressure from the politicians at the time, did not want to go there.

2) The Ripper was sent to a sanitarium where he was watched closely and upon his release into the custody of his brother, lived a quiet life of no further crime — he was watched constantly until he died.

3) There are surviving relatives and they are aware of the infamy of their ancestor and do not grant permission to release the record.

4) And finally, the museum is for learning not for voyeuristic purposes, and therefore will not release to the general public, as all the items in the Black Museum are officially evidence and held as such.


17 posted on 04/16/2011 9:58:34 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Beowulf9

Saw this on History Channel, last summer or fall. Pretty good theory.


18 posted on 04/16/2011 10:02:25 AM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Beowulf9
Patricia Cornwell's book, Portrait of a Killer, links Jack the Ripper to Walter Sickert with DNA evidence.
19 posted on 04/16/2011 10:03:28 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: BereanBrain

Oh don’t even get me started on this either...


20 posted on 04/16/2011 10:04:21 AM PDT by gman992
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