Other theories about the Ripper?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper_suspects

Here's another good source:

http://www.casebook.org/suspects/

Yes many,many,different theories,Kosminski,Chapman,Tumblety,Ostrog,Walter Sickert.The list goes on,and on.we will never know for certain,but they will always be someone wanting to cash in with a different theory that sells thousands of books.

The fact that his identity was never known,or at least we assume nobody ever knew,makes his the greatest serial killer story of all time.

Kosminski

follow below to see the argument presented

http://www.jack-the-ripper.org/kosminski.htm

For the site's home

http://www.jack-the-ripper.org

There's plenty of theories

-Some of them are variants of what we saw in the movie with William Sickert or Prince Albert Victor himself being the culprit
-Some suggest Mary Kelley's live in lover of being the murderer
-Francis Tumblety an American doctor in London at the time
-Montague John Druitt a British barrister and teacher who committed suicide shortly after the final cannonical murder (nicely explaining why the murders stopped).
-John Pizer an East End leatherworker known among area prostitutes as Leather Apron who may have had a habit of assaulting sex workers. Was questioned by the cops but let go since at the time of one of the murders he watching a spectacular fire on the London docks in the company of a police officer.
-There's the "Jill the Ripper" theory that the killer may have been a woman, sometimes posited as being a midwife or abortionists. This might explain why even at the height of the Ripper scare the victims were willing to go with the killer to secluded areas.


At this point we'll never know the identity of the killer IMO. But the most credible of the suggested theories would appear to be Aaron Kosminski. The more sensational theories all go wrong by positing some famous name, but a rich and famous person would have stuck out during the Ripper scare. The real killer was some anonymous psychopath who would have blended in to the East End milieu. Kosminski was a Polish Jewish tradesman who lived in the East End. In 1891, a few years after the Ripper murders, Kosminski was sent to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum. He's a suspect mainly because years and years later both Melville MacNaghten and Donald Swanson, who were both high placed officials in the Metropolitan Police during the Ripper investigation, indicated that Kosminski was a suspect. MacNaghten wrote a memorandum laying out three suspects, one of which is Kosminski. Swanson had written a set of marginalia in his copy of Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Robert Anderson's memoirs. In those Swanson identifies their chief suspect as being "a Polish Jew" named "Kosminski" with no first name. He states that Kosminski was positively identified as the Ripper by Israel Schwartz, the only witness who ever saw one of the Ripper attacks occurring (about twenty minutes or so before Liz Stride's body was found, Schwartz saw a man and a woman, who he later identified as Stride, in the street where she was found. The man threw the woman to the ground and began attacking her). However, Swanson says that the witness refused to testify against the killer in court because both were Jewish and he was afraid that his testimony would result in the death penalty for a fellow Jew. Swanson then says that afterwards the cops kept a close watch on the suspect until he ended up being committed to Colney Hatch a few years later. Swanson doesn't mention the suspect's first name but Aaron Kosminski is the only "Kosminski" from the East End who was committed to Colney Hatch at the right time and his mention by name in the MacNaghten Memoranda would seem to indicate that he's who Swanson is talking about.

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