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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

In 2006 his sketch was prepared, and till 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

Macnaghten_memorandum

 

 

ALL HIS MURDERS TOOK PLACE ON WEEKENDS OR

EARLY IN THE MORNING, WHICH SUGGESTS HE

HAD A NORMAL JOB DURING THE WEEK

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

the guardian

 

 

ACCORDING TO IMDB.COM AT LEAST SEVEN FILMS,

TWO TV MOVIES, AND TWO TV SERIES HAVE HAD

THE TITLE JACK THE RIPPER

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

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

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

left handed

 

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

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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