Posted on 07/13/2006 9:01:23 PM PDT by CurlyBill
Handwritten notes which name a prime suspect in the 1880s serial killer Jack The Ripper case have taken their place in Scotland Yard's Crime Museum. The notes, donated by relatives of an officer involved in the original investigation, identify Polish barber Aaron Kosminski as the murderer.
This marked the re-launch of the museum which features exhibits from famous cases dating back to 1875.
The exhibition, which is used in police training, is not open to the public.
Relatives of Ch Insp Donald Swanson, the senior investigating officer of the Jack the Ripper case, handed over the notes to the museum at Scotland Yard's headquarters in central London.
Suspect fled
Ch Insp Sawnson had made handwritten notes in a book about the memoirs of Dr Robert Anderson - Scotland Yard's assistant commissioner at the time of the Jack the Ripper investigation.
He named Kosminski and explained why he believed him to be the killer.
Kominski came to the attention of the police after threatening his sister with a knife, but he was insane so detectives could not interview him.
Handing over the book on Thursday, Ch Insp Sawnson's great-grandson Nevil said: "We have had this book in the family for quite some time and we thought the most appropriate and safest place for it was here".
Medical training
The serial killer is believed to have killed five prostitutes in Whitechapel, east London, in 1888 but was never caught.
His victims were either strangled or stabbed, with some of the bodies badly mutilated and even having organs removed. Some believed he had medical training.
The pseudonym Jack the Ripper was coined from a letter sent to a London news agency at the time of the murders, supposedly from the killer himself, but which police later dismissed as a hoax.
The Crime Museum contains, among other items, death masks, casts of necks disfigured by rope burns and a collection of nooses hanging from a gallows.
Are the police in Britain normally this quick to solve murder cases?
Well now, I've watched all this too.
I still think the artist did it, not this Polish guy.
I STILL like Druitt for it. Matched a description of a male coming out of Miter Square around the time Eddowes got whacked [and he was the spitting image of the Duke of Clarence]. Killed himself shortly after the Kelly homicide [last of the five credited to the Ripper].
Not "leather apron?" LOL!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thought they should be looking for a woman. DNA samples taken from the back of a stamp on one of the letters believed to actually have been written by the Ripper, suggest he may have been right.
I agree - also, he worked in the area, and previous to doing law, may have had medical training.
where was clinton when all this was going on? you can never be too sure...
Well, you know, they have to stop for tea every so often...
I have always thought that the Ripper was in fact a female member of the Royal Family in male attire using one of the carriages without the coat of arms from the Royal Mews...doing so out of a twisted sense of revenge for some nameless prostitute having infected the Duke of Clarence
I hear they have a new suspect... George W. Bush and Karl Rove, tag teaming across time using their nifty time machine.
What were the points about the case that lead him to suggest seeking a woman?
It's a bit of a let-down. An insane barber did it. More interesting if it had been Professor Moriarty.
Doyle thought that it was odd how a usually suspicious person like a prostitute were letting this person so easily get close and alone with them while still on the street, and how easily the killer seemed to move through the streets while he should be spattered with blood. His theory was that it was a female abortionist. Somebody that the prostitutes would know and nobody would think twice about seeing bloody.
And Kosminski doesn't seem reasonable They let him walk the steets a year and a half after they knew he was the Ripper?
Ans when they did confine him people would have to know the reason - police, doctors, staff at the mental hospital would have to be warned - that amounts to a lot of people over the 25 years he was confined. And nobody talked?
Col. Mustard, in the kitchen, with a knife.
yitbos
ROFL
seen this?
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