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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 9 years ago

Who do you think was Jack the Ripper?

Just some "fun" for Friday evening.

Last night I saw another TV programme, with another so-called "expert", adamant they knew who the diabolical 1888 London serial killer could have been.

Who do you think s/he might have been then?

If more than one answerer names the same suspect, and with a valid argument, I will investigate that person further.

Thanks folks.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Aaron Kosminski, or possibly Dr Francis Tumblety.

    Only trouble is ,not even Scotland Yard knew , so what chance has anyone after all this time of identifying the real killer . Still, it sells a lot of books and someone makes money out of it .

    You do realize you wil be inundated with names !

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I dispute the assertion that Tumblety was Jack the Ripper,but I'd love to see the evidence. Kosinski is a possibility but I believe that hidden in police or possibly mental hospital records is an unknown who got away with the word's most famous series of murders because he was a plain, unknown, seemingly ordinary man.

    Source(s): Year of research on jack the ripper.
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Robert Mann or Francis Tumblety,seem the most likely.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The American suspect Tomatey

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  • 9 years ago

    Francis Tumblety. I am acquainted with a descendant of his who says that the family has proof of this !

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Me

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