Jack the Ripper

No one can say the ripper lived until ww1. After the murder of Mary Kelly, Jack the Ripper mysteriously stopped his attacks. After that there were few murders that could be his. Jack made his crimes in 1888. The ww1 began in July 1914. That gives us 24 years. When the ripper was active, murders likes his were being investigated in the US, in Mexico, South America and other places and I don't believe in a worldwide ripper mania. 1888 was a time were medical knowledge were not improved specially in the area of psychiatry. Sociopaths, psychopaths and paranoid schizophrenics were not quite understood. For sociopaths there is no drug or treatment but for paranoid schizophrenics there are treatments and drugs.

The one thing we can say for sure, is that the ripper was alive in 1888 and maybe a few years after that. Nobody can say for sure the ripper lived until ww1.

The serial killer known as Jack The Ripper was never caught. The 'who' may never materialize. But why he killed can be determined in part by what is known about serial killers.

Jack The Ripper's crimes were sexually motivated. His choice of victims, mutilation of the sexual organs (some he took with him) and with the extreme mutilation of their faces he took their identities. His rage is obvious by the overkill. He was more than likely a white male on the good side of 30. An intimate knowledge of the Whitechapel district was essential. And although Hollywood has given the world the image that he wore the cape and tall hat, whatever the Ripper wore while he hunted and killed would have been drab, even shabby clothes that would help him blend into the impoverished east end.

And as is true for modern serial killers, so was it true for JTR, his need to control and have power over others was the foundation of his crimes. Killers like the Ripper engage in voilent fantasies, of overpowering and destroying human life. For many of them it may be the only way to get sexual satifaction. The problem is very complex, things usually are when dealing with humans, and more research is needed.

Unfortunately, when Jack The Ripper gave himself the famous moniker he knew exactly what he was talking about. The ripper in JTR means precisely that. After cutting his victim's throats, he proceeded to rip open their abdomines and disembowl them. With only one exception, Elizabeth Stride, he was interrupted so her body was left intact, with just a cut throat. But within the hour, less than a mile away he caught Katherine Eddows unaware, she got the full Ripper treatment. Her face was almost unrecognizable when he was finished.

Since the imfamous east end killer there have been other rippers. Peter Sutcliffe was the Yorkshire Ripper, Danny Rollin was the Gainsville Ripper, but Jack The Ripper did it first and was able to evade capture, which is part of the reason that people are still facinated by this killer.

Between the strong circumstantial and DNA evidence present, the chance that Jack The Ripper could have been someone other than Sickert is almost non-existant. Her case is stronger than that of Scott Peterson, an almost completely circumstantial case in California.

When her investigation was complete she presented it to John Grieve, head detective from Scotland Yard, his response was, had he worked at the Yard in 1888, he would persue the case at the Old Bailey.

Actually, Jack The Ripper had organized and disorganized charachteristics. His victims seemed to have been chosen at random, or at least with little planning. They may have just been in the wrong place when they crossed paths with this killer. Random victim selection is a disorganized trait. On the other hand, he came prepared with a weapon, possibly disguised, and he seemed to be very familiar with the area in which he killed in. He may have had an escape route planned ahead for easy escape. These are characteristics of the organized killer. Killers that are organized are much more difficult to catch. It is not uncommon for serial killers to have traits of both groups.

Beginning with the murder of Emma Smith who died on April 3, 1888, near Osborn St., Whitechapel, Martha Tabram on August 7, 1888, at George yard buildings, Commercial St., Spitalfields, Mary Ann Nichols on August 31, 1888, Buck's Row, Whitechapel, Annie Chapman on Sept. 8, 1888, on Hanbury St., Spitalfields, Elizabeth Stride on Sept. 8, 1888, Burner St., Whitechapel, Katherine Eddows on Sept. 30, 1888, Mitre Square, Aldgate, Mary Jane Kelly on Nov. 9, 1888, Miller's Court, Dorset St., Whitechapel.*

*It is felt that the killer did not stop after the Kelly murder but listed are the victims most commonly known as Ripper victims.

Since Jack The Ripper was never caught it is impossible to say if he had siblings.

It depends on who you ask but I personally believe he was an extreamly clever serial killer, because no one ever identified him.

The name itself most likely assured the killer a place in serial killer history. Although the crimes themselves were shockingly brutal, the name he gave himself in his taunting letters to police and press went a long way and sold a lot of newspapers. Some think the name was the brainchild of a clever reporter durmming up sales for his paper. The proof says otherwise. Of the few letters that have been deemed authentic, the original and first 'Jack The Ripper' was one of them. As was the George Lusk* and Dr. Openshaw letters. Coupled with the fact that he was never apprehended has made for an intriguing mystery that has lasted more than a century.

*The George Lusk letter came with half of a human kidney. Preserved in 'spirits', or as we say alcohol, the kidney was examined by Dr. Openshaw of London Hospital Museum, Pathology Dept., and declared a real human kidney that showed the advanced stages of Brights disease. Ripper victim Katherine Eddows was in an advanced stage of Brights.

He didn't. Jack the Ripper was never caught.

The only connection is the word Ripper. Jack The Ripper is the name for a 19th century serial killer that killed prostitutes in London's impoverished east end known as Whitechapel. The Yorkshire Ripper is Peter Suttcliff who was convicted of 13 murders in 1981. The New York Ripper is a fictonal character.

That actor's name is Ian Holm. He also was a regular in the Lord of the Rings movies.

Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols, murdered Friday, August 31, 1888.

Annie Chapman, murdered Saturday, September 8, 1888.

Elizabeth Stride, murdered Sunday, September 30, 1888.

Catharine Eddowes, also murdered that same date.

Mary Jane (Marie Jeanette) Kelly, murdered Friday, November 9, 1888.

Not unless he was Winston's father, Lord Randolph Churchill, who is one of the large number of extreme 'outsiders' named as possible Ripper suspects.

Conspiracy theorists like to remind us that Lord Randolph became mentally deranged before his death. But he was not showing signs of this as early as 1888.

Of all Jack's victims Stride got off easy. Because he was interrupted by a man with a pony cart the Ripper had to flee before he could mutilate her body. But he did have time to cut her throat, nearly decapitating her.

Jack the Ripper was never caught so there is no way to know who he was or who he was related to.

Season 7 episode 16 it is noted, Glen Quagmire was Jack The Ripper in a past life.

At the time of Jack The Ripper, known as the Victorian age, the world was gearing up for the industrial revolution. Machines were replacing people, the automobile would soon replace horses and there was the hope that prosperity was just around the corner. This was the environment that the Ripper hunted in.

ADDED: He wasn't!

The Industrial Revolution was pretty well over before the murderer was born. Victorian Britain was a time and place of continuing, rapid progress in science and engineering; and these followed the Revolution itself.

Otherwise he had no link to it at all: he was simply a murderer. To this day though, his identity is unknown, with various theories put forward but non provable.

That was Pedro Alonso Lopez - The Monster of the Andes, No one was concerned that Lopez would have the opportunity to kill again. If he was paroled from the prison in Ecuador he would still have to stand trial for his murders in Colombia and Peru. But after 20 years of solitary confinement, in the summer of 1998, Lopez was taken in the middle of the night to the Colombia border and released. Neither Colombia or Peru had the money to bring the madman to justice.

Jack the Ripper The German Suspect - 2011 TV was released on:

USA: 3 January 2011

UK: 3 January 2011

USA: 3 January 2011

Germany: 5 April 2011

Not as far as is known and most certainly not for the Ripper murders.

"Ashleys Roachclip" - by the Soul Searchers

Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England in the latter half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings. There have been some theories that "Jack" may have actually been a "Jill", but the evidence is inconclusive. Although several suspects were investigated by the police at the time, no solid evidence on anybody was ever collected - ideas abound now about over a hundred suspects, many linked by the tiniest shred of circumstantial proof. Nobody was prosecuted and the murders remain unsolved today.

No. I don't think so.

Nobody ever knew who wrote this on the wall. But due to the explosive nature of relations between the general populace and the "juwes" at that time, the police washed it off the wall quickly. There was a lot of "graffiti" on the Whitechapel neighborhood walls and this was just one more example of it.

" The Juwes Are Not The Men Who Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing ".