I’ve always liked Colin Wilson’s comment on the identity of Jack the Ripper. On Judgement Day, all the Ripper experts will assemble and with one voice call out for Jack the Ripper to step forward and identify himself - and when he does all the experts will say “Who on Earth are you?”
I’ve been researching my family ancestry recently and found out the location they were living in was pretty darn close to Whitechapel and during the years he committed the murders. I was getting a little worried, as some “eyewitnesses” did say they saw a “Jew” with a couple of the girls before they were killed. I was then relieved to find out that great granpapa senior was at that point blind and Junior had already arrived at Ellis island By 1889. How creepy it is to think you could possibly be related to Jack the ripper, if even briefly.