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To: MacMattico
I quit reading ripper books some 20 years ago, along with books about other serial killers, because I just got sick of the subject. So, I am only going from that recent TV show about Trevor Marriott's book.

I gather from that show that Marriott was suggesting that the missing organs have been a “red herring”; that the White Chapel killer didn't kill for the organs, or take them. The killer wouldn't have had the time, nor the light to be doing such things. He was suggesting that the organs were removed during the autopsy. As for my use of the words “organ trade”, that trade in the 19th century would have been like the infamous Burke and Hare murders which had occurred in the late 1820’s, where Burke and Hare went from digging up cadavers to sell for the use to teaching future doctors, to producing the cadavers. The missing Ripper victim murders organs went to some medical school.

Now, I can see had this been the case, and Scotland Yard had been covering up evidence of this, I could see where the cover up would still be ongoing ( a bit of a black eye, for them and maybe some school or the coroner's office or someone's reputation or legacy)...

79 posted on 05/17/2011 3:16:42 AM PDT by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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To: LRS
For anyone reading that last post of mine, let me include a Wiki link about Burke and Hare, in case they don't know what I am referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Port_murders
80 posted on 05/17/2011 3:24:27 AM PDT by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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