Comments on: Jack the Ripper

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:02:24 +0000

I believe the murders were done by more than one person and not necessarily known to each other. Certainly the last one Mary Kelly – who was killed in her home instead of on the streets like the others. Newly formed newspapers wanting to attract a share of the market sensationalised the murders even more with drawings, speculations, innaccuracies and rumour.The Dear Boss letter was discovered to have been written by a journalist. This wild publicity would have been an ideal opportunity for other murderers to do their thing with a ceratin amount of impunity – as their crime in the mind of the public, would be lumped together with those of the ‘serial killer’ – Jack the Ripper. He probably stopped because other murders (not by him) put him in even more danger of being caught.

By: Christy Bertz-Zecholar

Christy Bertz-Zecholar — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:55:00 +0000

i don’t think it was a woman because back then men got the most education than women.. because men we’re the highest

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:46:00 +0000

People always use the “It was the devil” theory when they can’t handle the fact that normal human beings are sick enough or can be driven far enough to commit such disgusting crimes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:44:00 +0000

women aren’t as likely to commit serial murders, and are much less likely to commit serial murders of this nature. Why do you believe it’s a woman?

By: Dominique

Dominique — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:15:45 +0000

I think it was a woman. but who knows?

By: danny

danny — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:45:22 +0000

It was without any doubt someone high up in the English establishment, thats how he or she could stay 1 step ahead.
And maybe even so high that if caught, would have been kept secret from the general public because of the nature of the crimes. If this person was of nobel birth it could have caused riots, maybe even revolution! I belive the the suspect was caught secretly tried, and either hanged or put in an institution till he?she died. And why do i think this? Because serial killers do not stop! until either caught or killed, the sudden stop of the killings leads me to belive that he/she was secretly caught!

By: DeathSSghosT

DeathSSghosT — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:28:17 +0000

all i know is if they had just the letters, then that would be enough to convict you in court today.

By: bailey

bailey — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:13:28 +0000

it was colonel mustard in the library with the knife

By: Elena

Elena — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:33:29 +0000

Does anybody know who narrated this documentary ?? if you do please let me know, as i really need to know.

and joe i agree with you it is very likely that it was part of their alibi

By: joe

joe — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:32:07 +0000

I think shes on the right path,some one that smart is usually right under your nose,also in simular killings by other who are attracted to inner organs are evil posessed,in one case,in florida a husband stab to death his wife and mutilated his neice,dissected and removed her organs,then learnnig he brag to friends how he had the hots for her for years,also the police believe he maybe responsable for simular killings in his town as well as a trip he made out of town,they wait in ambush,he killed himself the same night but learn he had a poster accross his bed of a medical anatomy of a dissected person,he was fix sated on the inner organs why they lust the organs i dont understand ,but what is know at nine or ten years old he shot his mother and father,and try to stab his sister,his mother died his father lived he was put in a mental hospital until his release as a young man ,the hospital said he was normal and intelegent and wrote it off as a one time incedentmat,at the time his sister remembers his eyes changed jet black and his faced change to a evil entity,even though his father forgave him his sister was always afraid of him and felt evil still layed under the surfacembut didnt show itself until many years later when he killed his niece and wife and may be link to some seril killings in his town,i also notice with psycopath,theres usually seams to be two groups ones that think the world of them and ones that are there victims ,like ted bundy,its part of there mask they pick out up front who they they want to give a possitive image too a who will be there victums good cop bad cop in the same person dr jeckle mr hide its part of there cover if they ever, get caught,not because they have a good side to them,its planned from the begining,for others to cast a different image,part of there aliby

By: Rogue

Rogue — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:05:21 +0000

Anyone who thinks a woman commited these crimes is taking a simplistic view. There is nothing, not a single piece of supporting evidence that indicates a woman is responsible.

@ Healer
You wrote:
“Anyhow, I think the person who did these murders had a calling for butchery and human anatomy in practice, was a thoughtful person, capable of suppressing one’s negative feelings that come when you’ve done something against common moral rules. A mentally strong, unhesitating person capable of planning. For not having get caught, he must’ve lived at least somewhat normal life too, that’s what indicates metal strengths.”
I think your summation is a little naive. The perpetrator didn’t suppress his negative feelings, he expressed them. He obviously had no such feeling of guilt, shame, or remorse. In fact, the evidence suggests he was quite proud of his work. He had no regard for the sanctity of human life and used women as a canvas on which to pour his psychosis. Far from being mentally strong this man shows all the characteristics of mental fragility: easily damaged by some childhood trauma and unable to process such events (unlike most people) he externalized his rage and lust. Just because he wasn’t discovered isn’t a credit to his mental prowess, it is a simple reflection of the environment he was living in.

By: Healer

Healer — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:45:12 +0000

I find comments like “he did it for sexual pleasure” shortsighted, especially when you don’t consider other alternatives. Black magic is one, but it’s just one. Willing to play around with the law because you were bored or didn’t have anything else to do, is one. Many people these days are forum addicts. What better way to use a sort of forums to express your self in 1880′s than by writing anonymously? You wouldn’t probably get caught just by that, and would get a sort of response from the mass media and the police.

You gotta understand too how a criminal mind can work. Notice, can work, not “always works”. One who breaks law may often at first be stressed and sort of paranoid for the consequences and for the moment of getting caught. But, time passes and even a more sensitive person with more troubles to adapt with those feelings, can grow to be able to bear them, and still carry on a normal life with normal social relations. It is not easy by any means, it asks one to not fall mentally, but to stand through the turmoil. Once you go through it, the kind of stress and paranoia won’t reach you in the same negative way as it did. If the killer did his first mutilating murders around the same time, all five in less than four month period total, it is likely that he or she has been doing crimes or been in jail or as an accused of something, etc etc, before those murders. Considering how detailed and similiar the murders are, he has likely given them some thought or had had a clear intuitive image about doing it for some time.

Also, one can use the theory of killer having planned the murder locations in advance, despite of what one guy in the document said. You can mark the exact locations of where the victims were left lying down, or the exact locations where they were killed. Isn’t it a bit unlikely that the murder would move the bodies around, if the bodies are left wide open in that shape as they were?

Anyhow, I think the person who did these murders had a calling for butchery and human anatomy in practice, was a thoughtful person, capable of suppressing one’s negative feelings that come when you’ve done something against common moral rules. A mentally strong, unhesitating person capable of planning. For not having get caught, he must’ve lived at least somewhat normal life too, that’s what indicates metal strengths.

As for the document, I hated how it was so entertairning-made and suggestive, not letting the viewer form one’s own image clearly. Mysteries are best when looked with a bit of scepticism, yet not denial.

By: stevewithak

stevewithak — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:36:50 +0000

@Jenn

I fail to see the sexism in that guy’s statement. Typically speaking, female MO is poisoning, right? The frenzy shown in the Ripper killings would suggest male, given what we know about the differences in genders. Obviously he meant it’s about how that evil is manifested, not that a woman CAN’T do it. So, ya know, lighten up some.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:11:12 +0000

@bob

Excuse me, but women are perfectly capable of blood lust. We, too, have testosterone in our systems. And you have estrogen in yours. Every one of us, male or female, is capable of terrible crimes such as the ones in this case.

Take your sexism somewhere else.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:15:49 +0000

it has a huge probability that walter is the killer.. he has all the MO of a guy who will evicirate his victim..

its not a girl! only testosterone can give such a bloodlush that you will disembower your victim.. so its not a girl who hate prostitute. if its a girl she’ll only stab him up to ten times. the only reason he choose prostitute cause their the most easy to target.. they will talk to unknown persons, their secretive and dont like to talk to the police in the first place..

such a sad thing for justice for such a person to escape punishment.. i hope he burn in hell