[ReformationFan]

It certainly would explain a lot.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I read over 40 years ago that these were probably botched abortions.

[BereanBrain]

whoever did it was a Freemason, from the clues (as warnings to other masons) left at the scene.

[Huntress]

In a new book, Sir John’s great-great-great-great nephew, Tony Williams, presents evidence for Sir John’s guilt, including his discovery of a six-inch surgical knife among his ancestor’s possessions that he believes was the murder weapon.

A surgeon had a knife. How unusual. /s

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Abortionists could care less about women - they don’t hate them violently. Jack left these women like fully gutted deer.

He wasn’t after money, undesireables reduction (not enough victims) or stealing souls from God. He was just psycho hateful.

This relative needs to get a life - his own.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Already solved;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKGicNPeKtw

[Tredegar]

Not sure if this is a new book. I could swear I read ‘Uncle Jack’ a couple of years ago. The book is utterly unconvincing. Almost as unconvincing as Patricia Cornwell’s atrocious attempt to finger the artist Walter Sickert as Jack.

We’ll never know who he really was.

[NYer]

Ping!

[wildbill]

Interesting show on National Geographic channel today which had some modern forensic pathologists, forenensic pyschiatrists, etc. examine the case.

The leader turned his attention to reports of some similar cases that occurred in NYC after the Whitechapel murders stopped—on the thory that serial killers don’t stop voluntarily. A German seaman was caught and confessed to the NYC crimes and the rest of the show focused on proving the German was possibly in London at the time and was the Ripper.

This conclusion conveniently bypassed the parricipants earlier conclusions that someone without medical training of some kind couldn’t possibly have performed the mutilation and precise removal of organs in the dark and in a short time.

The show also revealed that at least 103 people have been named as suspects as the Ripper in various books and treatises. Ripper books, tv shows and theories continue to be the most popular form of ‘true crime’ genres.

[mass55th]

One of the many Jack the Ripper movies/tv series touched on a doctor possibly being involved in the murders. I wish I could remember which one it was. I clearly recall the police searching the doctor’s work rooms, and finding a preserved uterus among the collection. The doctor’s “morgue” I believe, was part of the hospital he worked at. I don’t recall the doctor’s name, or if the true name was mentioned in the film/program. I tried searching some of the more recent Ripper programs, but couldn’t come up with anything specific. For some reason, the 1988 Ripper mini-series with Michael Caine first came to my mind, but I couldn’t find a character named Sir John Williams portrayed in the series.