MORE JACK THE RIPPER FACTS
Added on: 16th Jun 2016
IN 2006 HIS SKETCH WAS PREPARED AND UNTILL
AS RECENTLY AS 2012, DETECTIVES WERE
REPORTED TO BE RESEARCHING FOR THE
IDENTITY OF JACK THE RIPPER
THE SO CALLED "THE MACNAGHTEN MEMORANDA"
WERE THE OFFICIAL NOTES WRITTEN BY SIR
MELVILLE MACNAGHTEN IN 1894 IN RESPONSE TO
A PUBLISHED REMARK IN THE SUN REFERRING TO
A MAN NAMED THOMAS CUTBUSH AND HIS
POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS TO THE RIPPER SLAYINGS.
IT DELVES MORE INTO THE RIPPER CASE ITSELF
THAN IT DOES INTO CUTBUSH AND IS ONE OF
THE MOST QUOTED DOCUMENTS IN THE RIPPER
INVESTIGATIONS. THESE WERE SENT TO SCOTLAND
YARD AS AN OFFICIAL REPORT AND A SLIGHTLY
EDITED VERSION IS AVAILABLE IN THE
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
ALL HIS MURDERS TOOK PLACE ON WEEKENDS OR
EARLY IN THE MORNING, WHICH SUGGESTS HE
HAD A NORMAL JOB DURING THE WEEK
THERE WAS A FRENCH ROCK GROUP CALLED
JACK THE RIPPER, WHILE IN 1993 THE
LEGENDARY FRONT MAN OF THE SMITHS,
MORRISSEY, RECORDED A SONG OF THE SAME
NAME THAT WAS INCLUDED IN HIS LIVE ALBUM
BEETHOVEN WAS DEAF
ACCORDING TO IMDB.COM AT LEAST SEVEN FILMS,
TWO TV MOVIES, AND TWO TV SERIES HAVE HAD
THE TITLE JACK THE RIPPER
JACK THE RIPPER’S LAST MURDER IS THOUGHT
TO HAVE BEEN IN NOVEMBER 1888
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT QUEEN VICTORIA
STRONGLY BELIEVED JACK THE RIPPER WAS
EITHER A BUTCHER OR A CATTLE DROVER
ACCORDING TO DR. LLEWELLYN'S FINDINGS
(THE DOCTOR WHO EXAMINED THE CORPSE OF
MARY ANN NICHOLS), THE KILLER WAS THOUGHT
TO BE LEFT-HANDED DUE TO THE DIRECTION OF
THE KNIFE WOUNDS AND THE LOCATION OF
THE FACIAL AND THROAT BRUISING.
DR LLEWELLYN'S INITIAL BELIEF THAT
JACK THE RIPPER WAS LEFT-HANDED BECAME
ABSORBED INTO RIPPER LORE, DESPITE THE
FACT MANY CONTEMPORARY INVESTIGATORS AND
DOCTORS DISAGREED WITH THIS ASSUMPTION
AND EVEN DR LLEWELLYN HIMSELF RETRACTED
AT SOME POINT HIS INITIAL STATEMENT
AFTER THE MURDER OF MARY KELLY, THE LAST VICTIM,
WHOSE BODY WAS ONE OF THE WORST MUTILATED,
THE MURDERS CAME TO AN ABRUPT HALT.
NO ONE KNOWS IF JACK WAS KILLED, IMPRISONED,
DEPORTED, OR DIED A NATURAL DEATH.
HIS EXISTENCE, HIS MOTIVES, HIS DISAPPEARANCE;
ALL REMAINS A MYSTERY TO THE WORLD EVEN TODAY
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