Jack the Ripper

There is no evidence to suggest that Charles Dickens encountered Jack the Ripper. Charles Dickens died in 1870, while Jack the Ripper was active in 1888. Their timelines did not overlap.

Other than the fact both were ruthless killers, there are no other connections between the two.

Modern techniques have been used analising Jack the killer evidence. DNA testing and other techniques had not resulted an inside of the Jack personality or his motives.

Sherlock Holmes was introduced in A Study in Scarlet (1887), followed by The Sign of Four in 1890, but didn't really take hold of the public's imagination until Strand magazine, newly founded in 1891, published a series of short stories called "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." From that point on the public couldn't get enough of Holmes and his always reliable confidant, John H. Watson, a retired military doctor. During the 71 days in 1888 that Jack the Ripper killed 5 prostitutes in Whitechapel, the police did not have the detective skills that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about in his Sherlock Holmes stories. This made Sherlock Holmes the hero in those days.

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Since no one knows who he/she was no birthdate can be given.

There were no connections between the two. Remember that Jack the Ripper was real and Sherlock Holmes was a fictitious character. There have been a couple of attempts to merge the two and there is at least one movie that connects the two.

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'Help' is probably not the appropriate word. It's true that the living conditions in the east end put the poorest of the poor at a disadvantage. The majority of the Ripper's victims were in fact homeless, relying on doss houses as a place to lay their heads. When money for a bed did not materialize, these women were forced to find a doorway or park bench, and with any luck they could catch a little sleep before police shooed them away.

The Ripper was aided though, by the lack of adequate lighting. It was the age of the gaslight, but they were few and far between in Whitechapel and Spitalfields. There were many small streets and alleys that had no lighting at all, coupled with London's famous fog and visablity was diminished greatly.

Jack the Ripper and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are connected through their representation of the duality of human nature and the dark side of Victorian society. Both figures reflect the anxieties of the era concerning morality, identity, and the potential for evil within individuals. Jack the Ripper, an unidentified serial killer, embodies the hidden menace lurking in society, while Dr. Jekyll's transformation into Mr. Hyde symbolizes the struggle between civilized behavior and primal instincts. Together, they highlight the tension between respectability and the darker impulses that can lie beneath the surface.

Now we got all those tools used by forensic investigators that in 1888 we didn't have and with that said, catching a serial killer is hard because there is no link between them as most of the cases, the victim is not known to the assailant. Now we got the profilers, the fingerprint dusters, luminous blood liquids and other series of tools.

A Road Ripper is a heavy duty transmission for trucks. One would use a Road Ripper for frequent towing of 10,000 pounds such as a fifth wheel trailer, engines with 250 horsepower, drag cars who run 10 seconds per quarter mile.

The inclusion of New York prostitute Carrie Brown as a Ripper victim is somewhat recent. Although the murders had similarities the only connection seems to be to suspect George Chapman, who at the time of the Brown murder was alleged to live in New Jersey.

Unfortunately, there is no proof that Chapman was in the United States, and there is some proof that he was not. Chapman, skilled with a pair of scissors, was employed as a hairdresser/ladies man. It was no secret Chapman had a roving eye and a seriously nasty temper. But when Chapman decided to make murder his advocation, it was poison he chose as a weapon.

Since Brown was included on the Ripper suspect list because of a possible link to Chapman, it is a tenuous thread that binds these two.

In several respects, the alcohol consumption of his victims aided the Ripper's cause. Alcohol is a depressant, it lowers inhabitions, distorts perception, and depending on the amount, effects coordination and slows reactions. JTR's victims were street-wise and no doubt, cynical. The ability to judge a person's character was for them, stock and trade. After a few drinks, their ability to descern a dangerous individual may not have been as sharp. Impaired motor function and reaction time would make the victims much easier to overcome, especially if they had drank enough alcohol to make them unsteady on their feet. If eyewitness accounts are correct, most, if not all of the victims were in various stages of intoxication. One of the victims, just hours prior to her murder, was arrested for being drunk in public. It is anybody's guess whether their fates would have been any different had they been sober, but without a doubt, their drunken state did make them easier targets for the likes of Jack The Ripper.

In 1888 the Metropolitan Police had a force of 15,000. However this did not include the police that covered the City of London. The City, as it is refered to, is the one square mile in the center of London. Similar to Washington, DC and the Vatican in Rome. The Metro police patroled the rest of the city outside of that square mile.

A constant theme running through the Jack the Ripper correspondence was that the writer would of send a body part from one of his victims victim to the police but the letters that arrived in the wake of the original Jack the Ripper missive, contained only, among other artworks crude drawings of female forms with jagged cuts helpfully illustrating where on the bodies the author would make his incisions or mutilations.

One time, a package arrived wrapped in brown paper arrived with a piece of kidney from one of the victims. at time time, police didn't have equipment to test it and they could not be sure it was a human kidney.

The resources available made the difference in the newer invenstigation. At the time of the Jack the ripper murders, organised criminal investigation was in its infancy. The detectives in the Yorkshire Ripper case had the use of computers and all the apparatus of modern technology to help them althought there was some sloppy handling the information gathered.

It was through the vigilance of an ordinary beat policeman, not a detective, that Sutcliffe was finally caught, when he checked the registration details of a suspcious-looking car and was challenged by Sutcliffe. This policeman was aware of the information gathered and was on the look out.

When the police puts togheter a murder board, a number of persons are assigned to form a committee of questioners to set up to help someone prepare for a difficult oral examination. The term murder board was realy for political purpose but now the term more widely.

I could not find a TV series on Jack The Ripper but there was a 1988 TV movie about the Ripper.

Of the hundreds of letters and notes that were written in 1888 and beyond, not all were sent to Scotland Yard. They did have their share of course, but the London's many newspapers received their share of the 'fun'. The Ripper obviously craved causing a stir. It made him feel superior to the rest of humanity.

This is very common among some serial killers. Along with collecting trophies and revisiting the crime scenes or body dump sights, bragging in the press or to police gives the killer an extra charge until the next kill.

Dennis Radar, the BTK killer from Kansas, was famous for this and is in fact the very thing that finally got him arrested. He couldn't resist the urge to brag.

He was never captured and who he is remains a mystery to this day.

Nobody knows who Jack the Ripper was.

The actor Marc Aeon Bradley was born. I know because I did a school study of Jack The Ripper and found out who the actor was that played him. Cute guy.

It's written by Patricia Cornwell. I don't know where it was first published, but according to my reading of it the case is very unclosed.

Patricia Cornwell's bestseller was published in 2002 in hardcover first. Although there will always be controversy with a case such as JTR, Cornwell's enormous amount of circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. Scott Peterson was convicted on much less evidence than Miss Cornwell presented.