In my post Bury and the Stride Murder, I pointed out that there is statistically only a very remote possibility that Elizabeth Stride was murdered by someone other than William Bury. If Bury did murder Stride, however, then there are two questions that need to be answered. The first is why Bury didn’t mutilate Stride’s body, … [Read more…]
The Goulston Street Graffito is potentially an important piece of evidence in the Jack the Ripper case. It was located in the doorway of a building housing many Jewish residents, and above a piece of apron that had been taken from Ripper victim Catherine Eddowes. While it is true that chalked graffiti could be found … [Read more…]
In their article, “The Jack the Ripper Murders,” Keppel, Weis, Brown and Welch stated that the signature characteristic of posing was evident in the Jack the Ripper murder series (1). In their view the Ripper deliberately spread the legs of his victims in order to degrade them and to shock the discoverers of their bodies. … [Read more…]
Of the many letters supposedly written and sent out by Jack the Ripper in the fall of 1888, the only one that many Ripperologists feel could possibly have come from the Ripper is the “From hell” letter, which was ghoulishly accompanied by a piece of human kidney. A handwriting quirk in this letter is the … [Read more…]
William Bury committed a murder that can be linked to the Jack the Ripper murders through signature analysis. Two chalked messages, apparently written by Bury, were found at the back of his residence in Dundee, “Jack Ripper is in this seller” and “Jack Ri(p)per is at the back of this door.” When executioner James Berry … [Read more…]