What was the name of the suspects for Jack the Ripper?

Answer 1

There were hundreds of suspects but the main ones were:

Aaron Kosminski BORN:1864 DIED:1919

Michael Ostrong BORN:1833 DIED:UNKNOWN

Prince Albert Victor (Queen Victoria's grandson) BORN:1857 DIED:1888

The counry was in rebelling against the monarch so if Jack the ripper was Prince albert victor then if he was apprehended then the country may have gone in to revolution.

There are a couple more I would like to add. There was much talk about a barrister (attorney) named Montague John Druitt. His body was pulled from the Thames River with rocks in his pockets. There are several things that need to be cleared up in reguard to this suspect. There was never any evidence or in fact any reason for this man to be considered as a Ripper suspect. The murders did not stop with the death of Mary Kelly. They continued for many years, and Scotland Yard was aware that the murderer was still on the loose. Druitt was teaching at a private school for boys outside of London and the trains had no night runs to where he lived. It would have been impossible for him to travel to London, rip up some prostitutes, and get back to the school in time for work.

The other suspect, although at the time he was not even considered, is artist Walter R. Sickert. Most people discount this man because of who he was. But he must have been suspected later on. Patricia Cornwell's bestseller Jack The Ripper:Case Closed claimed she had not even heard of him and knew very little about the Ripper crimes. But a detective at Scotland Yard in fact gave her a short suspect list and he was on it. After much research, and even more money Cornwell puts out a very convincing case against Sickert. Infact, Geese, the Scotland Yard detective, felt there was enough evidence that an arrest could have been made had it not been 120 years too late.

Cornwell continues her DNA testing, comparing Sickert and Ripper handwriting, paper, fingerprints and anything else that can be compared in her quest for the physical proof that Walter Sickert was Jack The Ripper.

Answer 2

Montague John Druitt, Seweryn Kłosowski alias George Chapman, Aaron Kosminski, Michael Ostrog, and Francis Tumblety made the principal suspects list. Despite the many and varied theories about the identity and profession of Jack the Ripper, authorities are not agreed on a single solution and the number of named suspects reaches over one hundred.

Answer 3

I thought that the Jack the ripper murder did not have witness. I came across a link that mentions the witness in every murder case of the ripper. I included the link in the related links box below.

There were never any witnesses to the murders themselves. However, many witnesses came forward after each murder to describe men seen with the victims shortly before their deaths. Some of the described men were most certainly the killer, such as the man seen with Annie Chapman and the man seen escorting Mary Kelly to her room.

The most famous witness in George Hutchinson, who looked directly into the face of the man walking with Mary Kelly and gave an exact description. He is most likely the man to have come face to face with the Whitechapel murderer.

//We need to be careful when trying to decide whether or not there were witnesses to any of the Ripper's murders. As a result of their profession most of the victims were seen with unidentified men shortly before their demise. This does not mean they were with the killer. These women were with many men everyday, men they did not know. There was a sea of strangers, foreigners, sailors, ect. that roamed the east end. The only exception that has any validity is the man seen with Katherine Eddows mere minuntes before she was attacked. This we can be more sure of. P.C.* Edward Watkins was on duty that night and could walk his beat in about 15 minutes. At 1:30 a.m. Watkins testified that all was quiet as he walked by Mitre Square. At 1:44 a.m. he found Eddows' mutilated body. A mere minutes before her body was discovered she was seen with a man who in fact yelled an antisemetic insult to the witness across the street. This man almost certainly saw the actual killer. Eddows had no time to find another 'john' before Watkin's return some 15 minutes later.

*P.C. Police Constable.//

Answer 4

The list of names of suspects for the Jack The Ripper crimes number in the hundreds. Virtually all (%99) could be eliminated with very little effort. They range from 'it's possible' to the more outlandish 'no possible way', Jill the Ripper being one of the latter. At the time, Scotland Yard looked at many, John Pizer aka Leather Apron, Aaron Kozminski, Michael Ostrog, among them. All were dismissed as serious suspects. Over the years many more names were added to the suspect list. Dr. Gull, the Freemasons, Montegue John Druitt, James Maybrick, Dr. Neil Cream and Walter Sickert to name a few.

After his retirement, Inspector Frederick Abberline was notably quiet as to whom he thought may or may not have been the real Ripper. It is very likely he just did not know, and brilliant detective that he was, did not want to add to the rampant speculations swirling around the case. If others had followed suit, many of the misconceptions in this case would not exist.

Answer 5

The suspect list for the Ripper crimes is extensive and continues to grow with each passing year. Some of the more notable suspects were: John Pizer, aka Leather Apron, Prince Albert, Dr. William Gull. Scotland Yard seemed to be focused on a suspect that was insane and/or deranged in some way. Most serial killers are not technically insane. This does not mean they are normal but probably had one or more personality disorders. But most do know wrong from right making the crime premeditated.

Answer 6

At the time of the murders the favorites were Aaron Kosminski, Severin Klosowski, also known as George Chapman and Montague John Druitt. In 1888 I doubt that Prince Edward Albert or Sir Dr. William Gull were serious contenders for the Ripper, at least as far as Scotland Yard was concerned. Later many more names were added to the list, such as James Maybrick and Dr. Thomas Neill Cream.

Answer 7

Montague John Druitt, Seweryn Kłosowski, Aaron Kosminski, Michael Ostrog, John Pizer, James Thomas Sadler, Francis Tumblety, William Henry Bury, Thomas Neill Cream, Thomas Hayne Cutbush, Frederick Bailey Deeming, Carl Feigenbaum, Robert Donston Stephenson, Joseph Barnett, Lewis Carroll, David Cohen, William Withey Gull, George Hutchinson, James Kelly, James Maybrick, Alexander Pedachenko, Walter Sickert, Joseph Silver, James Kenneth Stephen, Francis Thompson, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale and Sir John Williams.

Answer 8

there was 43 but most of them were suspected from small things like he was left handed