Jack the Ripper

[carlton23]

On the TV sometime last week they said that the modern way of investigations would, or may, prove whom the killer was, but I haven`t heard or seen anything more. Have you?

[mike11111]

Will have a look myself. They obviously won't catch him now, but it would be nice to see a mystery finally solved. Unless, of course it WAS Sqad all the time!

[jackthehat]

^ What !
And swap his well-appointed Spanish villa for evenings spent stalking through the Whitechapel smog................?

[gazzawazza]

Squad, the last TWO documentaries (that I've seen) claiming to finally clear it up both named an American quack called Tomblety (or Tumblety) who was a woman-hater.

[Davethedog]

Ankou's right they just get the facts of the case and make them fit.

With todays tools he would have been caught i.e fingerprints, DNA etc however look at Hanratty people still argue if he was innocent or guilty despite the DNA, so if a case that "recent" can't be proved what chance Jack.

[mike11111]

The Hanratty case always troubled me as I was a 13 year old boy at the time, and it was the cause célèbre. Whilst people convicted of capital murder were automatically sentenced to death, actual executions were few and far between. There was a lot of doubt at the time and it was widely expected that he would be reprieved. Obviously the Home Secretary of the day was privy to more information than the general public. The letter that Hanratty wrote to his parents from the death cell on the eve of his execution, protesting his innocence, only added to the unease. His parents continued to argue for a pardon until their deaths. Subsequent DNA evidence, unknown at the time, placed him firmly at the scene of the crime. Small comfort for anyone, but at least, whatever one's views are about capital punishment, an innocent man was not wrongly hanged.

[Sqad]

JTH and mike.

I know Whitechapel well, as I was a medical student at the London Hospital between 1953-1959. I didnt seem much different from the days of Jack the Ripper. When the London fogs and smogs came down and at late evening when the pubs were turning out, one was back to the East End of the late 19th century. I could have taken you to many pubs where, for the cost of half a pint, a prostitute would go out the back with you...about 6 old pence.........I cannot speak from experience as it was purely a Sociological study. Also in the graveyards, alcoholics would be lying about and if you threw them a bread roll, they would fight for it, a humbling site.

After saying that, I felt perfectly safe at 1.am in the backstreets of Whitechapel despite the era of the Kray twins..........I wouldnt NOW.

[ethandron]

blimey sqad, you're a lot older than i thought..

[Sqad]

eth...only on body......only in body.

I was a quite a bright student, as I started as a medical student when I was 8 years old.

[ethandron]

ah hem, yes of course ;o)

[mike11111]

"I could have taken you to many pubs where, for the cost of half a pint, a prostitute would go out the back with you...about 6 old pence.........I cannot speak from experience as it was purely a Sociological study.
"And that, m'lud is the case for my defence. Purely in the interests of academic research, you understand."

[tamborine]

Dr Barnado, to fill his ophanages & set up the charity - supposedly

http://www.casebook.o...tion/cjmorley/12.html

[Sqad]

mike..........I wouldnt have touched any of them even with Vibra´s.

STD´s were called VD clinics in those days and in the London Hospital VD clinic we would sea seamen who would nip off the boats in Port Said, get a dose and when the ship docked in the East End docks, they would have well established penile lesions....sloughing sores....that would put one off 6penneth for life.

[Sqad]

tambo.......never heard of that one.

[tamborine]

allegedly....as a/m wiki

[mike11111]

See seaman (or alternative spelling) at a VD clinic? Now there's a novelty!

[daftgrandad]

Always laughed at the notices in Gents toilets.
" VD can be cured "
On which some wag would write underneath
" So can kippers"

[Sqad]

DGD......LOL

[mike11111]

You don't get the humour on the bog walls these days.