Scotland Yard fights to keep Jack the Ripper files secret

cinc

Thats not a theory.

Ramshock

It was Alex Ferguson yeah?

Ramshock

Jacob Levy is a strong suspect, dunno if anyone played the sherlock holmes vs jack the ripper game but he was the ripper in that and reading the notes about him he does tick a lot of the boxes

SteveJ

ThatOldRedMagic

The work that RAWK's 'Wooltonian' has put in reminds me of my own efforts regarding this case more than twenty years ago. He has worked hard, and has come up with a startling piece of information. It is not, however, evidence. It is rather more of a co-incidence. The matter of the 'missing-key-and-broken-window' that I identified, on the other hand, and the remarkable ommission on John Mcarthy's part, in allowing the police to batter down the door of poor Mary Jane Kelly's bed-sit, rather than letting them in in the way he must, as her landlord living a few feet away from her door, have known was possible - a method which was used by Kelly herself, and was surely known to Mcarthy, speaks volumes. As does 'the Ripper's' changed MO: my 'barbel fishing' insight of earlier posts.

I am also mindful of Wooltonian's accurate insistence that his suspect had to live in and know the area intimately. Mcarthy lived right by all the victims, in and around Dorset Street, and thus washed his hands in the Dorset St drinking-fountain before going into his house (where hsi wife was, presumably, already in bed).

I am not convinced by his clever, yet ultimately unconvincing conclusion. It depends on nothing more than coincidence and conjecture.

Plechazunga

Kinell, that's all we need

In other news, Ghenghis Khan's true identity is revealed as one "Sydney Applebaum" from Hendon

Ramshock

considering the issues of the day, if it was a jewish man and the cops knew about him i can see why they covered it up

ThatOldRedMagic

Your name ain't Applebaum by any chance Plech?