So Did Larisa (lala_rawraw) Discover Jack The Ripper's Identity?

[SPKrazy]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/jack-the-ripper-the-end_b_34606.html

I don't know if she did here. It's an interesting theory she's strung together on her blog.

I still always thought it was probably a nobleman who did it and was protected from prosecution.

[China_cat]

1. I'll never be convinced that Jack

wasn't Jaqueline. A woman would be able to move about in a climate of fear of men. A midwife or doctor's daughter/wife would have the medical knowledge to do it and possibly the resentment that she wasn't allowed to become a doctor in her own right. Possibly a hatred of prostitutes as a source of a contracted STD (from the husband).

[hopein08]

3. I never thought about that angle!

But I like it China_cat! Very interesting. What about if it was even someone with Turner Syndrome or Klinefelter Syndrome, i.e. some sort of disorder which could lead to serious resentment, confusion and jealousy about sexuality.

Did you read about this theory in an article or book? If you did, I'd really like to read it. If it is all your own...call Hollywood or Scotland Yard without delay!

[China_cat]

11. I've seen it barely mentioned

and dismissed just as quickly for the simple reason that no one wants to think of a woman committing such horrendous acts. But I really do believe that a woman with a bit of knowledge and the resentment/hatred to fuel it could be just as responsible. And overlooked.

Your mention of Turner or Klinefelter could easily fit into that, especially since those weren't named or studied syndromes at that time and women with them would just be seen as freakish, not fit for marriage, and shunted into roles leading to serious resentment...such as being a midwife. Delivering babies, performing abortions...resenting in the lowest streetwalker an ability she would never share, that of being pregnant. Of fulfilling what was supposed to be her 'purpose' in life as a woman.

Too bad we'll never know for sure.

[hopein08]

17. We should co-author a book about it!

I really think that we're on to something here.

It'd have just as much as basis in fact as a lot of the other books about Jack the Ripper!

And we'd be rich in a week!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

4. Not very likely

Forensic psychology as we know it now says the chances are pretty slim for a woman to to be a serial killer, especially one who mutilates members of her own gender.

But, that's if you buy into forensic psychology.....which I do, it's pretty amazingly accurate.

[China_cat]

10. For today's situations.

Who knows what would have come into play over 100 years ago in what was truly a slime pit.

[myrna minx]

13. Casebook on Jill the Ripper

http://www.casebook.org/suspects/jill.html

[China_cat]

16. Thank you. I'd never seen that.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

2. I've read a couple books on the matter

And I've always been pretty positive that Chapman didn't have anything to do with it.

[soleft]

5. I think my GF was Jack the Ripper in a former life

[SPKrazy]

9. Wow, Does She Know How To Use A Scalpel?

I'd watch my back

unless you are into that kind of thing

[hopein08]

6. Check out George Chapman's wikipedia entry...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Chapman_(murderer)

The things I found interesting are...

-He took the name Chapman in 1887. (Coincidentally, one of Jack the Ripper's victims name was Annie Chapman.)
-He killed his wives using anitmony, which causes symptoms like arsenic. (I remember hearing or seeing that a possible witness told Scotland Yard that she smelled arsenic on Jack the Ripper.)

[myrna minx]

12. Check out Casebook.

http://www.casebook.org/

There is so much information on this site that it will make your head spin!

On edit: I have included a link to the various suspects:
http://www.casebook.org/suspects/

[leftofthedial]

7. she certianly has endorsed and backed up her conclusions

about an existing suspect

personally, I believe the blame for the Ripper killings belongs to Bill Clinton's penis.

[SPKrazy]

8. Ah, The Clenis Theory, Yes

I'm sure thousands of Feaux news fans agree

;)

[SteppingRazor]

14. I've always believed in the Montague Druitt theory...

a muscular sportsman (cricket player), sometime science teacher, and attorney.

Druitt killed himself by throwing himself into the Thames at the end of 1888 -- the murders, of course, cease after that. Lots of info on him on the Net. Weird that he's not mentioned in the casebook link posted earlier. He seems, to me at least, to be the most obvious pick.

[myrna minx]

15. Here's some info on Montague Druitt from casebook:

http://www.casebook.org/suspects/druitt.html

[hopein08]

18. But weren't there theories that a few more killings happened after 1888?

Possibly as copycat killings, obviously.

But I've always thought that the idea that the killings ended when something happened to the prime suspects that took them out of the running (the Duke of Clarence went to a sanitarium and died, Chapman moved to America...things like that).

But I haven't heard much Druitt, so I'll look into it.