Was it Donald Rumbelow who said: ‘when we step forward to answer our maker, and it’s jacks turn, we will be surprised at how normal he looked’. I’m paraphrasing of course but Donald had a point. We will never know who he was unless someone digs up something to prove it but you will always gets people who will deny it. You make the case so interesting even to us old hats. So thank you for these fascinating videos and photos of Whitechapel
Always fabulous content here - were the letters actually written by an editor to drum up interest and sell more papers rather than an individual journalist- do the papers they appeared in have any links to each other and or the masons ?
A very interesting fact re the letter being sent to the Central News Agency, and not to one newspaper or the other. A fact I haven’t heard or read about before, one learns something new everyday.
I just seen a few vidoes on him . I have NEVER heard off him even the name Charles cross . I believe there’s a strong case as Robert Paul disturb him & Paul felt she may have been taking her last breath according to his statement.
I find it interesting that a journalist began writing letters first then JTR started doing it. Why didn't JTR mention the previous letters if they were fake? Why didn't he write letters from the start, instead only doing so after the hoax letters? That leads me to believe they are all fake. In the letters perceived to be genuine there was no mention of the earlier hoax letters, surely he'd want to state they weren't his. That leaves 2 possibilities. Either they were all fake or the journalist himself was the Ripper.
The only letter at the time regarded as potentially real was the "From Hell" letter, on account of the human kidney (which was preserved in wine and could have been a lab specimen. The author of the "From Hell" letter never says the words "Jack the Ripper."
Love your vids, but I gave up on this one because the volume was so low. Louder speech or caps would be highly appreciated. Ps I'm not hard of hearing neither..
Actually, there are at least 298 other possibilities, of which, perhaps fewer than 100 are serious and then only three who can be regarded as realistic. Yes, the third to add to your list is Lechmere.
Not a jot of evidence. Cannot be placed at any crime scene and JTR was almost certainly not an outwardly abnormal nut job who needed putting in an asylum. The police didn't understand serial killers back then.
@@karatos Exactly, and if he did kill Polly Nichols (as seems more likely as not), then it means - by extension - that he’s responsible for the others due to the identical MO and signature.
When J.T.R. wrote that letter to the police and it starts out with "Dear Boss," It made me think, if his policeman stepfather was hated, he might want to taunt the police--father by cynically calling him Boss.
Fascinating stuff! I feel that the police were a little too quick to dismiss "Dear Boss" as a hoax, they were acutely aware of the growing public frustration at their inability to catch the murderer (Macnaghten himself states that "...feeling against the police in general, and the detective department in particular, ran very high") so it was not in their interests to also have to contend with a public perception of being taunted by him! I've felt for some time that the Whitechapel murderer was someone who was very close to the case, possibly a police officer or indeed, perhaps a journalist! And there's at least one person on record as arguing that Macnaghten is the culprit, although he seems convinced about Montague Druitt! The Whitechapel murders will no doubt continue to be a subject of intrigue and debate for many more years to come and this channel is a most excellent repository of all things connected to it. Thank you for all your hard work in producing it!
It was tested at the time and it was ink. (They could tell that even then, but not if it was human or animal) subsequent tests have been done over the years to confirm this, or hoping the ink might be uncommon in some way.
Edit : I had to rewrite this. I began writing this from a hospital ER after a suspected heart attack, despite only being in my early 20s. Somebody should look for any of the suspected letter writers descendants. It sounds like the sort of story that would have been passed down, from generation to generation. You have to remember - Jack the Ripper is very much a niche interest. Let's say someone out there knows their gr-,gr-gr granddad (or even their gr-gr-gr grandma) wrote any of the letters , but had nothing to do with the murders: such a person may well fail to understand or even know of the significance this has to "Ripperologists". I hear the same thing about the six wives of Henry the 8th. Tudorphiles and Historians would think they'd died and gone to heaven if they found more caches of letters and portraits of the wives and we assume if any exist in private collections, the owners would be screaming it from the hilltops (or tweeting it all over the world) but it seldom seems to work that way. Ie, there are rumours that some wealthy person has a previously unknown portrait of one of the six wives hanging in their home. When one famous historian knocked on the door and begged to see it, she was threatened with a gun and chased off the property .
Interesting name you have yourself there. Are you a descendant of THE Maybrick'? Got any other evidence in the family - passed down - to shed light on the famous poisoning?
@ddempsey9642 I wish! I was released, but now I'm back in hospital. Excuse that incredibly long post, but needless to say, I've got a lot of time to ruminate over Jack and assorted true crime mysteries.
@NickMaybrick Hope you are getting well again and sooner rather than later. Feel free to keep ruminating as you may yet persuade a piece of useful evidence to emerge. Glad & sorry you're unrelated to The Maybrick case - glad for your being free of any taint, sorry you have nothing to add to it. Wish you well...
Whoever he was, he came up with the greatest ever name for a serial killer. "Jack the Ripper" has never been topped. Solid gold. So perfect only a journalist could have come up with it. Too bad he couldn't tell people.
Another excellent video, Mr. Jones. If the mystery of whoever wrote the letters is ever definitively solved, I bet all the headlines will make it sound like the identity of the actual murderer was discovered.
I’ve had a similar thought. With so many people in London, there is a possibility it could have been five savage men with one of them (or possibly none of them) taking advantage of the journalism with the Dear boss letter. Though the similarities are pretty strong between the canonical five. Maybe only two or three of the whitechapel murders from 1888-91 are done by one person
I think it is very doubtful the murders are unrelated. I could go either way on Stride (I think she likely was given the location but cannot be 100% sure), but there's a clear pattern of the behaviour and degradation with the other four which makes it very improbable different killers were involved. There were other murders, but the signature isn't the same. And this kind of violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. If there were more than one killer around Whitechapel at the time with these specific proclivities, the body count would have been higher. Even the odds of a random outsider showing up at just the right time, performing a similar killing, then leaving are pretty remote. Not impossible, but very unlikely.
There are another five that don’t fit the Jack the Ripper modus operendi, which gives that idea some credence. In point of fact, one of the five credited to Jack the Ripper doesn’t fit his modus operendi. It could be that all of them were completely unconnected and they should have been looking for ten murderers, not two. Anyone familiar with the Spring-heeled Jack stories in the 19th century would remember how many newspapers and penny dreadfuls those sold. That alone gives a motive to a canny newsman to pen the letters and claim they came from the murderer. If the crimes were completely unconnected, that would go quite a way towards explaining why Jack the Ripper just stopped killing as quickly as he started. Stopping at one is fairly common. Stopping after three, four or five is almost unknown among serial killers. Liz Stride being entirely unmutilated and Mary Kelly being mutilated far more than any others and killed indoors, make them different from the other three of the acknowledged five. Just those two make it possible that there was at least two or possibly three killers, using the Jack the Ripper murders as cover for their crimes.
@@almitrahopkins1873 Liz Stride being unmutilated almost certainly explained by the killer being interrupted. From Wikipedia: "Blood was still flowing from a single knife wound inflicted to Stride's neck and, although her hands were cold to the touch, other sections of her body were either slightly or "quite" warm.[55][56] This suggests Stride was killed shortly before Diemschutz's arrival in the yard." This doesn't completely confirm she was a Ripper victim but given the proximity to other crimes, it is a more than reasonable conclusion that she likely was. The lack of direct strangulation was possibly due to the silk handkerchief round her neck, which would have made it more difficult to get a grip. So he modified his approach and probably grabbed her by it instead and went straight for the cut. Killers can and most certainly do modify their modus operandi when it proves beneficial. Getting interrupted during the killing of Liz Stride is precisely the kind of thing that would trigger such a change. Also, it is extraordinarily rare, if not unheard of, to jump into a crime like that with no lead up. So unless you can point to other cases in the area with indoor killings with a progressively stronger mutilation component, you will have to forgive me if I find the idea of Mary Kelly not being a Ripper victim to be logically unsound.
Thank u richard, another enjoyable video.the dear boss was made public after the double event. How did the murderer know about the threat of ' next job i do i shall clip the ladies ears off'. Dr brown report: (eddowes) the lobe and AURICLE were cut obliqely through. So dear boss received by central news 27th received by the met 29th catherine eddowes murdered and ear cut off 30th sept. What is ur opionion on the above? Thanks
Magnificent effort, Mr. Jones! Well done. That was extremely well researched, presented and enjoyable to the last moment. Of course, none of that is unexpected as your work here has been consistently informative and entertaining, to say the least. Thanks for another first rate presentation. It is amazing how much more we can know, or at least research and debate, in this modern age, in ways that would have been impossible before the digital world came to be.
@@adoculos4521 I agree. There is no possible way the Dear Boss letter is legit and the Lusk letter most likely is. The former is far too literate and clever, fitting more the cliche of who the Ripper was. While the latter more accurately reads like something written by the kind of personality profillers have stated the killer was.
Almost as if... the same person wrote both? Dun dun DUNNNNNNN! Yeah, obviously. That is the entire point. The chances that multiple letters would be signed the same without publication is very low. But that also does not make them authentic, it only means the same person or persons likely wrote both. What about the other 600 or so letters that were received, many that were not signed Jack, but claimed to be the killer? Why should the letters be signed Jack be any more or less authentic? It is not as if the name Jack was associated with the case before the letters, and the letters never gave guilty knowledge. For comparison, the Zodiac letters included details of the crimes that were known to only the police. And even then there were still fake Zodiac letters. The Jack letters never got it right, not even once.
Question:gang or cult even both? Question:canonical if ical means pertaining to you get a name? Canon,,Conan,anon,anonymous 5 who thought of the Canon,Conan pertaining to 5 people or 5 digits in the last name? Anderson mentioned Sherlock in his memoirs, that's where Conan came from, is their any examples of his hand writing available? Just a hunch? I think that he was educated or worked in Edinburgh, that's where Burk and Hare came from, also the torso murders witch seems to go unnoticed at that time? So these crimes might be connected? Let's say the same gang might have been involved? That's how they new there was only 5,that would mean 2 different motives ? This is only an example, 1 could have been for body parts(torso), the other Bribery ? I got 1 from Burk and Hare ? No facts please fact-check everything especially the torso found in the foundation of New Scotland Yard ,a bit ritualistic? My opinion no facts?
Walter Sickert probably wrote the letter but was not the ripper..out of a run of 24 sheets 2 or 3 were Sicerts privite letters and one or two was the dear Boss letter or letters. They traced the watermarks.
Hi Kevin. Personally, I think the letter was the work of a journalist, I don't think he expected the reaction it got. Of course when so many people then started writing letters the whole thing got out of hand and the name Jack the Ripper had "caught on."
I don't know of any experts today thinking the dear boss letter was genuine--it tends to come into play with backbenchers. The from he'll letter has backers, though.
I was born in Whitechapel of Russian Jewish origins and I've always had a problem with the Dear Boss letter - I can't find any trace of 'buckled'. It would be great to tie its usage to a particular person but the verb appears to have been created for the letter.
The term "Buckled" meant to be caught, arrested, forced to yield, and even married! These two definitions are from an 1874 dictionary- 1. "Buckled, to be married, or to be taken into custody. Both uses of the word common and interchangeable among the London lower classes." (Seeing as "halter" was slang for "altar", one can see how this dual usage came about. Interestingly, "halter" was also slang for the hangman's rope.) 2. "Buckle, to bend. “I can’t buckle to that.” To yield or give in to a person. Shakespeare used the word in the latter sense in ‘Henry IV.'’" I also found these related terms: "Bucklers: Fetters." "Buckler: Collar (presumably as in an “iron collar”, which often accompanied fetters." (The word "Fetters'' refers to the heavy iron leg bands, manacles, chains, etc., used in the old days before modern handcuffs.) - found in a forum post in a JtR site - Casebook: Jack the Ripper Ripper Discussions -> Letters and Communications -> Dear Boss Letter - “Use of “Buckle to Denote Arrest”
I have a theory that the ripper had a sword concealed in a walking cane with which he would prod his victims causing them to grab the cane then draw the cane back leaving the sheath in the victims hands and the blade exposed How else could he have gotten away clean from such bloody crime scenes without that kind of reach extension
I have heard they were strangled before he cut their throats. That would cut down on arterial spray more oozing making it less messy. Idk seems like either way he'd be absolutely covered in blood and shit
Argh! I've have to subscribe. I've been avoiding it for long - for fear of being spammed with related murder case content from other channels of which I'm disinterested. But I had to. Your Channel, Richard, has it all - except the volume of subscribers it deserves: The professional disposition, thorough research, well-chosen visual layout, music, narration, length - and even timestamps! Impressive. I hope you'll have many more subscribers...and I'll now have to deal with loads of related content from similar channels, I fear. (Fortunately, I have a solid, old RU-vid account with an optimal working algorithm that instantly accommodate.) Keep up the good work, and thank you.
I'll say it again. The only logical explanation for the letter was to divert attention from the Jewish immigrant population as riots were starting and Jews blamed . ' Jack' was the generic term for a local English lad. By ' naming himself' Jack the images of the butcher, barber and Doctor became viable. You see this in the fact that the letter although known to be false was allowed to circulate and actually promoted, and has been for a century or more. The writer of the letter was in the ' media' . I'd like to go a step further because a huge elephant stands in the room, cloaked by political correctness, which has no place in history. The massive influx of people ( mainly Jews) in to east London at the time led to huge housing shortages, lack of jobs ( which of course pushed countless women into prostitution ) and pushed down standards of living further ( at least in that short term window). Not that these people were inherently bad people but their influx caused issues. Then you have the ' racist' suspicions of the populace about the ripper being a jew and not ' one of them', i.e the ' other', " no Englishman would do this" etc... Well, hang on... it's sociologically normal to suspect outside people. 1 - you don't know what their social, religious, political or other norms are. For example strict muslims don't like gay people much, Arab men often and legally beat their wives and own them etc... 2 - people of outside groups do simply have less respect for the culture they move in to ( many studies), its not theirs, and so what happens is lowest common denominators serve as different cultures interact. 3 - There had been two Jewish men convicted in the previous year for murder. very local to the killings, more famously Lipski but another ( sorry can't remember the name). Then there was the man who tried to attack the lady ( Anne....?) after the Ripper killings in a similar fashion ( sorry, again its been a while since I looked at the case) who was described as foreign, maybe Eastern European. Then, as mentioned you have the Police who retrospectively felt they had their man, a Polish Jew. You also have the killing of Stride outside a Jewish Socialist club ( often called a ' pub' or Gentleman's club by politically correct people, AKA liars). Also it seems politically incorrect to mention the fact that potential witnesses described a foreign looking gent. To return to the initial point, the native people were quite rightly not happy with the changes bought about by the Jewish influx and they would have been mad to not have been wary of Jewish men at the time. It's just not politically correct to say that. The Dear boss letter, in my eyes, was a calculated political move to make Jack the ripper an English local lad. This name, along with the prostitution and general destitution in the East end fuelled by immigration at least in part created the ' Jack the Ripper' legend.
George Herbert Duckworth has the same handwriting in his notes. He supported Charles Booth who was obsessed about writing about his view of depravity. Those 2 became best of buddies.
No 🤦♂️ people who only became "suspects" yearrrrrrrs after the murders stopped dont count 😂 plus he only became a "suspect" due to his living family members putting it in a book years after he died (as a way to make money) 0% proof he was ever in london? A total different M.O to the ripper crimes, plus being an all out fibber about his "victims" 🤦♂️😂😂😂😂
With the belief that he may have been a gentleman of breeding and importance.. Like a doctor or a surgeon or even royalty.. His letter writing was like that of a uneducated man and had bad punctuation
Who was Jack the Ripper, if we knew that, there’s no need for channels like this You don’t really wanna know,that’s the beauty of it Only 2 questions are WHO and WHY My nailed on guess is the artist Walter sickert he was blatant about it and hiding in plain sight Look into him and especially his paintings and have a good look them
How to do reconcile the fact that he didn't live in the country at the time of the murders? He painted scenes of jack the ripper because he was captivated by it. If he in your mind is the killer because he painted what he imagined happened, then why not Richard here? Richard has a whole youtube channel devoted to Jack! Why isn't he the killer then? What, because he wasn't alive at the time? Hardly a sound argument.
I like so many others believe the murders were done due to the prince and a cover up. It is the reason why it is such a mystery. I still believe it. Would love to walk those streets . It would be easy to cover up these crimes.🙏😥💔
Nobody seriously into this subject believes it was anything to do with the royals, or a conspiracy. JTR was almost certainly an outwardly normal local man. Nothing more elaborate than that. Cheers.
