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Was he Jack the Ripper?
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http://www.dailymail....berline-named-as.html
Could it be that Chief-Inspector Frederick Abberline was in fact Jack the Ripper?
/// Last month it emerged Scotland Yard is fighting a legal battle to withhold secret Ripper files compiled by Special Branch officers in the 1880s.///
Why would Scotland Yard wish to withhold secret files complied as long ago as the 1880's?
Could it be that Chief-Inspector Frederick Abberline was in fact Jack the Ripper?
/// Last month it emerged Scotland Yard is fighting a legal battle to withhold secret Ripper files compiled by Special Branch officers in the 1880s.///
Why would Scotland Yard wish to withhold secret files complied as long ago as the 1880's?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The killer was either in the medical profession or a failed student of medicine with a warped mind judging by his methods of handling the body.
///An analysis of his methods revealed that several of the Ripper's victims had their throats cut, while those killed also had organs removed such as the uterus or the heart.///
///An analysis of his methods revealed that several of the Ripper's victims had their throats cut, while those killed also had organs removed such as the uterus or the heart.///
If I remember right, the 'medical background' thesis has been pretty effectively ruled out - the Whitechapel murders were more elementary butchery than they're generally seen as being.
The most likely suspect IMO was either Kosminsky or if not him then someone like him, purely because it fits in pretty well with what we know of serial killers today.
Abberline seems an extremely unlikely candidate... British intelligence organisations (incl. Special Branch) are renowned among academics for extreme levels of secrecy, withholding documents that are well over 100 years old. Obviously we can't really tell if there's a good reason for it, because we can't see the documents.
The most likely suspect IMO was either Kosminsky or if not him then someone like him, purely because it fits in pretty well with what we know of serial killers today.
Abberline seems an extremely unlikely candidate... British intelligence organisations (incl. Special Branch) are renowned among academics for extreme levels of secrecy, withholding documents that are well over 100 years old. Obviously we can't really tell if there's a good reason for it, because we can't see the documents.
Kosminsky was a fairly average Pole with a pretty well-proven history of mental illness who was resident in or near whitechapel at the time. As I say, it's entirely possible that Kosminski was innocent, but if it wasn't him then it would have been someone like him (who given the circumstances were far from uncommon in Victorian London).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Kosminski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Kosminski
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@em: Yeah, I know what you mean - glad someone said it. There's a slightly pantomime-ish view of Jack the Ripper that's fairly current now, and I even remember reading on the Crime Library an assertion that if he'd have been active today he'd 'barely make the headlines'. Even by modern standards the whitechapel killings were really, really, really horrific.
After all this time I doubt we'll ever get to know the truth, every time somebody writes a book on the subject they seem to come up with a new suspect and reasons to support their theory. Like Brenden and Scotman say Tumblety looks pretty good for it could have been any of the other major suspects or somebody we've never heard off.
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