from all the clues that they found i think there is a strong possibility that jack the ripper was not actually a doctor but in fact a butcher. if you look at the letters and the stuff that came with the letters it is made almost certain that he has something to do with meat and being a butcher can also make sense on how he knew biology because most animals have similar insides
I disagree respectively. I have researched Jack the Ripper all my life and I have in fact rated the Freemason case of Jack the Ripper as one of the most unlikely to be him. I will type my theories and attacks and this very theory right here, but if you wish to watch a crappy (pardon my language) video I made on my Youtube site go on (reason its crappy: I can't get sound with Windows movie maker for some reason): Anyway let me continue. I will present the top 3 suspects I believe in being Jack the Ripper and why I think the Freemason case is not. Francis Tumblety Perhaps the most popular of suspects and surely on of the most likely is Dr. Francis Tumblety from the United States. Tumblety was all ready notorious all over North America due to his illegal and rather forced abortions he committed. He was also believe to be linked to the Lincoln assassination, but the court let him go. Tumblety may have also had collected internal female organs including uteri. He hated women and was very strongly homosexual. Tumblety was very well in London during 1888 when the Ripper murders happened. He also may have even owned a small apartment in the Whitechapel District of London where the 5 murders of the prostitutes took place. Being a doctor, he likely had the experience at the equipment to mutilate the bodies and even remove a kidney from one (as a kidney was removed from the 4th victim). Also, the second victim had carried with her two rings on one of her finger, but both were stolen, and after his death it turned out Tumblety owned two very similar rings. Tumblety does have some faults, but the two biggest ones would be that he is person who stands out of a crowd and that he is taller than the average height of the time which the Ripper may have been due to at least three or four key eyewitnesses who may have saw the Ripper before or after he murdered the women. Aaron Kosminski This Polish and Jewish immigrant hated women too, especially of the prostitutes according to a police record. He was so far out of the mainstream that only a rough sketch of him exists. Anyway, during the 2nd murder one man (I forgot his name) came actually close to the Ripper and may actually saw him kill the woman, but the Ripper called out the word "Lipski" an unpopular phrase used on Jews (and the witness was one). This scared the eyewitness and he fled the scene. The police took him in for questioning to help them with the murders. Aaron Kosminski actually was captured by the police and brought out of the town to where the key eyewitness lived. The eyewitness immediately accused him of being Jack the Ripper as soon as he saw Kosminski's face! So why wasn't Kosminski sent to jail? The eyewitness said that he would NOT prosecute against fellow Jews because Kosminski obviously was one when asked. Because the eyewitness would not press charges the police could not prosecute Kosminski. The two top men of the Scotland Yard were even there! The Chief of Police Sir Robert Anderson and his second-in-command Donald Swanson. All this key evidence was found in Anderson's journal which he gave a copy of to Swanson and these journals would not be found until the 1990s I believe (I documentary from '90s was the first to present this). In his memoirs published years after his retirement Anderson wrote, "I am almost tempted to give the identity of Jack the Ripper, but to do so would serve no public good." Kosminski also fits the eyewitness accounts who believe they saw the Ripper. However, the only proof that links Kosminski as the murderer is Anderson's journal. If you take that out of the equation there is virtually nothing to help prove that Kosminski is the Ripper. James Maybrick If you think Kosminski and Tumblety were interesting then wait until you here about this guy. While I believe Tumblety and Kosminski are tied for first in being Jack the Ripper, this man has rose to second on my list. In 1992, Michael Barrett, a former scrap metal merchant from Liverpool, produced a journal that he said he got from a friend at a pub the previous year. The diary was owned by wealthy Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. In the journal, Maybrick writes about his wife Florence Maybrick and her unnamed lover who apparently leave Liverpool and head to London to have dates which Maybrick eventually found about. In a rampage Maybrick killed these 5 prostitutes in Whitechapel. At the end of the journal he signs himself "Yours truly, Jack the Ripper". It sounds too good to be true right? Well, while several experts did agree that the journal was from the era when the Ripper started murdering women. However, they also asked for a forensic analysis and the evidence has proved to say the least, contradictory. The diary's credibility was further ruined when Barrett said to a newspaper that he forged the signature in the end the of the diary, but later he retracted the confession. His wife apparently stated at some time that the diary was owned by her family since the Second World War. Not to mention, there are several errors in the journal that makes it seem that the writer had ripped off several newspaper reports rather than actually be from the murderer. For example, the writer of the journal stated that after kissing the 5th victims breasts after murdering her in her own home, he then put the ripped off breasts on the bedside table. This did not happen, instead the breasts were actually found under the victim's body. However, we did not hear the last James Maybrick. In 1993, Albert Johnson purchased an antique gold pocket watch and on the inside he found the names of the five victims along with "J. Maybrick" and the words "I am Jack". Like the journal, the watch was also put to forensic analysis and the scratches were believed to had been made from around that era. However, Maybrick's guilt would have to be relied on the journal and the watch to see if they were genuine, but that has not been completely proven true. Maybrick would die in May 1889 and it was believe his wife poisoned him. One thing if for sure, we have not heard the last of James Maybrick. Anyway, here are eyewitness accounts: Account before the 2nd murder: Elizabeth Long sees Chapman with a man, hard against the shutters of 29 Hanbury Street. they are talking. Long hears the man say "Will you?" and Annie replies "Yes." Long is certain of the time as she had heard the clock on the Black Eagle Brewery, Brick Lane, strike the half hour just as she had turned onto the street. The woman (Chapman) had her back towards Spitalfields Market and, thus, her face towards Long. The man had his back towards Long. A few moments after the Long sighting, Albert Cadosch, a young carpenter living at 27 Hanbury Street walks into his back yard probably to use the outhouse. Passing the five foot tall wooden fence which separates his yard from that of number 29, he hears voices quite close. The only word he can make out is a woman saying "No!" He then heard something falling against the fence. Annie's body was discovered a little before 6.00am by John Davis, a carman who lived on the third floor of No.29 with his family. After alerting James Green, James Kent and Henry Holland in Hanbury Street, Davis went to Commercial Street Police Station before returning to No.29. Account before 4th murder: 1:35 AM: Joseph Lawende, a commercial traveler in the cigarette trade, Joseph Hyam Levy, a butcher and Harry Harris, a furniture dealer leave the Imperial Club at 16-17Duke Street. At the corner of Duke Street and Church Passage they see Eddowes and a man talking. She is standing facing the man with her hand on his chest, but not in a manner to suggest that she is resisting him. Lawende describes the man as 30 years old, 5 foot 7 inches tall, fair complexion and mustache with a medium build. He is wearing a pepper and salt colored jacket which fits loosely, a grey cloth cap with a peak of the same color. He has a reddish handkerchief knotted around his neck. Over all he gives the appearance of being a sailor. Lawende will later identify Catherine Eddowes clothes as the same as those worn by the woman he saw that night. Approx 1:45 PM: PC Edward Watkins discovers Eddowes' body in Mitre Square. Account before 5th murder: 2:00 AM: George Hutchinson, a resident of the Victoria Working Men's Home on Commercial Street has just returned to the area from Romford. He is walking on Commercial Street and passes a man at the corner of Thrawl Street but pays no attention to him. At Flower and Dean Street he meets Kelly who asks him for money. "Mr. Hutchinson, can you lend me sixpence?" "I can't," says Hutchinson, "I spent all my money going down to Romford." "Good morning," Kelly replies, "I must go and find some money." She then walks in the direction of Thrawl Street. She meets the man Hutchinson had passed earlier. The man puts his hand on Kelly's shoulder and says something at which Kelly and the man laugh. Hutchinson hears Kelly say "All right." and the man say "You will be all right for what I have told you." The man then puts his right hand on Kelly's shoulder and they begin to walk towards Dorset Street. Hutchinson notices that the man has a small parcel in his left hand. While standing under a street light on outside the Queen's Head Public House Hutchinson gets a good look at the man with Mary Jane Kelly. He has a pale complexion, a slight moustache turned up at the corners (changed to dark complexion and heavy moustache in the press reports), dark hair, dark eyes, and bushy eyebrows. He is, according to Hutchinson, of "Jewish appearance." The man is wearing a soft felt hat pulled down over his eyes, a long dark coat trimmed in astrakhan, a white collar with a black necktie fixed with a horseshoe pin. He wears dark spats over light button over boots. A massive gold chain is in his waistcoat with a large seal with a red stone hanging from it. He carries kid gloves in his right hand and a small package in his left. He is 5' 6" or 5' 7" tall and about 35 or 36 years old. Kelly and the man cross Commercial Street and turn down Dorset Street. Hutchinson follows them. Kelly and the man stop outside Miller's Court and talk for about 3 minutes. Kelly is heard to say "All right, my dear. Come along. You will be comfortable." The man puts his arm around Kelly who kisses him. "I've lost my handkerchief." she says. At this he hands her a red handkerchief. The couple then heads down Miller's Court. Hutchinson waits until the clock strikes 3:00 AM. leaving as the clock strikes the hour. Now my analysis of the Freemason crap (I apologize for the bad language, but it seems to fit the theory): First off, the 5 victims were killed according to this theory because they all planned to blackmail the Royal Family in a scandal. Thousands and thousands of prostitutes lived in Whitechapel and they all did not know each other so I do not think these 5 prostitutes knew each other especially since they were killed distances away from each other in the district and were not exactly killed just blocks away from each other. No real proof exists about this conspiracy theory despite the large amount of apparent Freemasons according to various conspiracies. Furthermore, because at least three of the five victims, as I have already stated, were seen at the places they were killed before their murders, the theory that the Freemasons had three men go around in a carriage, invited the women into them, then dumped them into the streets somewhere else after killing them is very unlikely. The coroners have all said the victims were killed where they stood.
Text block hurts mah eyes, you win by default. Seriously though, word of advice, put that in a spoiler next time. Feel free to use any curse word you like.
