you may remember I mentioned the film From Hell, that we watched last week, well it appears after 2 years research Mei Trow, a historian, claims to have uncovered the identity of Jack the Ripper by using modern police forensic techniques, he also believes that the notorious Whitechapel murderer was responsible for the deaths of an additional two women, namely, Martha Tabram, found with 39 stab wounds to her body in Gunthorpe Street, was the first Ripper victims, and that Alice Mackenzie, brutally murdered eight months after the confirmed five killings, was his last,
He has concluded that Robert Mann, a local morgue attendant, was the killer who terrorised east London in 1888 and who was officially credited with dismembering five prostitutes, his two main arguments are, that the two women, along with confirmed victims, would have been delivered to the Whitechapel mortuary in which Mann worked, he undressed Polly Nichols, the Ripper's first official victims body with his assistant, despite being under strict instructions from police to not touch the body, Mr Trow suspects this was an opportunity for Mann to admire his handiwork, and a damming comment buy the coroner about Mann, 'It appears the mortuary keeper is subject to fits, and neither his memory nor statements are reliable',
these together with a 1988 FBI profile concluded that the killer was a white male from the lower social classes, was probably from a broken home, had a menial job such as a butcher or medical examiner's assistant, and because of prolonged periods without human interaction, was socially inept,
Professor Laurence Alison, forensic psychologist at Liverpool University, said: 'In terms of psychological profiling, Robert Mann is the one of the most credible suspects from recent years and the closest we may ever get to a plausible psychological explanation for these most infamous of Victorian murders.' Mr Trow's theory forms the basis of the documentary Jack the Ripper: Killer Revealed, which airs on Discovery Channel this Sunday and in the Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer,
did Mann do it? we will have to wait and see!
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Is This Jack,
From Hell?
you may remember I mentioned the film From Hell, that we watched last week, well it appears after 2 years research Mei Trow, a historian, claims to have uncovered the identity of Jack the Ripper by using modern police forensic techniques, he also believes that the notorious Whitechapel murderer was responsible for the deaths of an additional two women, namely, Martha Tabram, found with 39 stab wounds to her body in Gunthorpe Street, was the first Ripper victims, and that Alice Mackenzie, brutally murdered eight months after the confirmed five killings, was his last,
He has concluded that Robert Mann, a local morgue attendant, was the killer who terrorised east London in 1888 and who was officially credited with dismembering five prostitutes, his two main arguments are, that the two women, along with confirmed victims, would have been delivered to the Whitechapel mortuary in which Mann worked, he undressed Polly Nichols, the Ripper's first official victims body with his assistant, despite being under strict instructions from police to not touch the body, Mr Trow suspects this was an opportunity for Mann to admire his handiwork, and a damming comment buy the coroner about Mann, 'It appears the mortuary keeper is subject to fits, and neither his memory nor statements are reliable',
these together with a 1988 FBI profile concluded that the killer was a white male from the lower social classes, was probably from a broken home, had a menial job such as a butcher or medical examiner's assistant, and because of prolonged periods without human interaction, was socially inept,
Professor Laurence Alison, forensic psychologist at Liverpool University, said: 'In terms of psychological profiling, Robert Mann is the one of the most credible suspects from recent years and the closest we may ever get to a plausible psychological explanation for these most infamous of Victorian murders.' Mr Trow's theory forms the basis of the documentary Jack the Ripper: Killer Revealed, which airs on Discovery Channel this Sunday and in the Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer,
did Mann do it? we will have to wait and see!
you may remember I mentioned the film From Hell, that we watched last week, well it appears after 2 years research Mei Trow, a historian, claims to have uncovered the identity of Jack the Ripper by using modern police forensic techniques, he also believes that the notorious Whitechapel murderer was responsible for the deaths of an additional two women, namely, Martha Tabram, found with 39 stab wounds to her body in Gunthorpe Street, was the first Ripper victims, and that Alice Mackenzie, brutally murdered eight months after the confirmed five killings, was his last,
He has concluded that Robert Mann, a local morgue attendant, was the killer who terrorised east London in 1888 and who was officially credited with dismembering five prostitutes, his two main arguments are, that the two women, along with confirmed victims, would have been delivered to the Whitechapel mortuary in which Mann worked, he undressed Polly Nichols, the Ripper's first official victims body with his assistant, despite being under strict instructions from police to not touch the body, Mr Trow suspects this was an opportunity for Mann to admire his handiwork, and a damming comment buy the coroner about Mann, 'It appears the mortuary keeper is subject to fits, and neither his memory nor statements are reliable',
these together with a 1988 FBI profile concluded that the killer was a white male from the lower social classes, was probably from a broken home, had a menial job such as a butcher or medical examiner's assistant, and because of prolonged periods without human interaction, was socially inept,
Professor Laurence Alison, forensic psychologist at Liverpool University, said: 'In terms of psychological profiling, Robert Mann is the one of the most credible suspects from recent years and the closest we may ever get to a plausible psychological explanation for these most infamous of Victorian murders.' Mr Trow's theory forms the basis of the documentary Jack the Ripper: Killer Revealed, which airs on Discovery Channel this Sunday and in the Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer,
did Mann do it? we will have to wait and see!
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