Jack the Ripper buffs: Who do you think it was?

[book_worm]

Of all the many suspects over the years, who do you think it was?

[guitar man]

1. Dick Cheney :D nt

[baldguy]

3. C'mon! Even he's not that old!

Maybe his grandfather?

[guitar man]

5. I don't know

you know legend has it vampires can live for centuries :D

[cliffordu]

10. Shit!!! Beat me to it!

[LostInAnomie]

2. John McCain

He was around back then, wasn't he?

[tchunter]

7. dammit! you beat me too it!

this was like the perfect set up for a john mccain = old joke. Maybe he killed all those hookers because they "plastered the makeup on like a trollop"

[CatWoman]

4. wasn't one of Queen Victoria's sons under suspicion?

I think it was he.

[book_worm]

9. Yep, Prince Eddy who would have succeeded to the throne, had he not died

He was pretty weird from the sounds of things.

[SteppingRazor]

11. Unfortunately, he's also an impossibility, as far as the Ripper murders.

Unlike less famous candidates, we have exact records of the prince's whereabouts, as they did in his own time. And Prince Albert Victor was nowhere near London during many of the murders.

[book_worm]

13. Oh, I agree he isn't to be taken seriously, but he was an oddball to be sure.

[SteppingRazor]

16. For sure. Generations of inbreeding will do that to you.

:P

[SteppingRazor]

6. I like Montague John Druitt. The circumstantial evidence is compelling.

He's a school science teacher, thus giving him basic anatomy knowledge, and the murders begin when he starts visiting White Chapel and end when he drowns himself in the Thames.

[Clark2008]

8. Mary Pearcy

[TahitiNut]

12. Sterling Hayden

[book_worm]

15. Yes, Gen. Jack D. Ripper was always looking out for our "precious bodily fluids"

[Riddler]

14. Walter Richard Sickert according to an excellent book by Patricia Cornwell

[book_worm]

17. that is an interesting theory.

[Clark2008]

21. It is a great book

Unfortunately, there are a lot of discrepancies in her worth - not things she could help much. She did great research, none-the-less.

[RubyDuby in GA]

22. I too thought that book was excellent and I agree with the majority of her research

:)

[arcadian]

18. I like Alan Moore's take on Jack the Ripper

The Masonic plot. The Queen's surgeon covering(murdering) for the wayward Prince. Though I know it's highly unlikely.

[librechik]

19. I like this one too--but no positive ID will ever be found, (I think)

unless DNA identification really evolves--If Scotland Yard has any samples, somebody should be studying that--a lot of genes in common with the royal family would be compelling, I think! Yikes, in fact they probably won't allow this sort of investigation.

[DavidDvorkin]

20. Some dead guy