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There is endless speculation about the identity of JTR. Everybody seems to have their favorite suspect. Lately there have been several new suspects added to the list. One being the workhouse helper that washed the bodies of at least 2 of the Ripper's victims. I was not impressed.

Jack The Ripper was probably someone nobody suspected at the time. But the biggest mistake that people make about the Ripper is to assume that he disappeared after the murder of Mary Kelly. This alone would eliminate many of the suspects. The murders continued on for years, so to name a suspect like Montague John Druitt on the grounds that he was found floating in the Thames shortly after the Kelly murder, is most definitely flawed.

There were many others that Scotland Yard looked at for these crimes and they were probably not even close. The best way to get closer to the truth is to start at the begining and use only the facts. With a case this old, things are printed and then copied as fact, whereas there are so many falsehoods connected with this case that it may be difficult to weed out the fiction.

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