The Horrific Crimes of Jack the Ripper
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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For well over a century, many historians, criminologists, law enforcement professionals and so on have attempted, often in vain to wrap their heads around this perplexing, gruesome mystery. In today's video, we're going to deep dive on Jack the Ripper's Autumn of Terror.
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I believe that the From Hell letter is more likely to be a genuine letter from the killer than any of the others.
Lemmino has the best video on the subject with an insane amount of production quality and writing.. But idk it's been dismissed for decades as non canon, it may be cool but they seem convinced it isn't real
@KaladinVegapunk No. "The Missing Evidence:Jack the Ripper" on the Smithsonian channel is the best documentary by far.
@@KaladinVegapunk"The Missing evidence: Jack the Ripper" on the Smithsonian channel. Best documentary by far.
This video is better formatter than many professionally made documentaries, such as the history channels documentary on Jack. Outstanding job
Thank you very much
Formatted better? 🤔
@@alkohallick2901 oh stop with the Grammer nit picking. Those people are like the HOA, useless and annoying.
@@Styxswimmer "The Missing evidence: Jack the Ripper" on the Smithsonian channel.
@walkawaycat431 seen it. Many times.
One of the most fascinating crimes in history. Thank you for presenting this interesting topic to us in all its facets.
If youre ever in London, I highly advice you to do one of the ripper tours! When I did it, we had a guide who was an actor as well and did an amazing job in telling the story on the locations in Whitechapel. The museum near dock street is cool as well, but a bit expensive and its better/helpfull when you already know a lot of things about the murders.
Yeah I've always wanted to do a tour down in Whitechapel and actually get an on-the-ground feel for it. If I'm ever in the area, I absolutely will!
Is it scary??
I have seen it bro 💀💀🙌🏻
Would love too
@@viviananaya6892YES. I loved going on the tour, mind you I wouldn't take your kids lol and at the time I had a six month old so hubby stayed with her while I went with my sister. It was a must see while you're in London. My Mother was born in Whitechapel so it was eerie for her.
I turned this on for an hour and a half of background noise and wound up subscribing to the channel because so much information in this was new to me and i’ve read 2 Ripper books written with in the last few years which made me believe i was up-to date, excellent work.
Much appreciated!
I did one of the ripper tours about 6 years ago, it was good. Very creepy because it was at night though!
perhaps,daytime,next time.............................
@@manchild3479 An ellipsis is only 3 dots...
The Victorian era was the MOST depressing century. Queen Victoria was an animal! She treated normal people with utter disdain!
I think any Era was depressing, with wars, disease, and public execution being normalized
She never washed for years as well thinking it would bring her closer to God. Bat crap crazy
@@HdHd-hp6qz That is utter crap.
You can't get more British than a pub called the frying pan lol
Arguably the most British pub name is The Cock.
@@DecadesVideosI thought it was “The Cat & Fiddle?”
@@DecadesVideos Cock and Bull?
The Red lion
The one thing that always irks me with Ripper documentaries is that they always tend to focus on the killer, whilst casting his victims in a negative light, labeling them as prostitutes. They never tell us anything about the hardships the Canonical Five went through, the struggles that Victorian London placed on them. They ended up in the Whitechapel district because life had torn any chance of them dealing with their struggles away from them. Yet they are only remembered because of their murderer.
Jack the Ripper took the lives of five innocent women. Their voices were forever silenced on a cold, autumn night. They are remembered, not as complex human beings, but as mangled corpses left behind by the hand of a madman.
There was nothing extraordinary about Jack that warranted the fame he has now. He was simply in the wrong place at the right time. And five women paid the price with their lives. Decades later, their graves have been left to deteriorate.
They deserve to be remembered. It doesn't matter what they were in life, they were human beings, and they deserve to be treated with more respect.
5 women? Martha Turner Tabram was also his victim. What no one seems to understand is WHY he killed. But if you look at the evidence it is not difficult to understand.
Those women were also at the wrong place at the wrong time. 75k population only 1200 prostitutes? Yeah, life was bad back then, but they still chose the easy way out. at least hard work would've kept them a little safer.There are books, and documentaries on the women and sorry, they just aren't interesting.what the ripoer did is interesting because of the inhuman nature of the crimes. What made him do this and why did he stop! Serial killers don't usually do that. the women had tough live, drank, whored themselves out, it's society's fault, blah, blah, blah. Are you also asking for Dahmer's victims to be remembered too? Cus no one cares. Again, you okay stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
@@ladysnowblood You think they prostituted themselves as it was the easy way out? It was the last resort for many of these women, there was not enough work for all the people who lived there, especially women. Plus not all the rippers victims were prostitutes. And yes Dahmer's victims are remembered.
That’s why I made the effort to visit one if the victim’s, Elizabeth Stride’s, gravesite on a recent trip to London.
@@henochparksMutilated the stomach area because he didn't want prostitutes to have children.
It’s very interesting, those poor women how they suffered by the evil Jack the Ripper, thanks for this
Could have been worse. At least they were dead before he mutilated them
@@jakebutler1863 Exactly, he ended them in a painful but quick death, and took their organs when they were dead. So he was quite sensible for doing that.
But it's still very bad and extremely inhumane.
I think we found him 😅
The vaginal attacks were carried out because the prince got a prostitute pregnant And caught VD as well. The palace was being bribed to hush up the pregnancy. As the palace didn’t know exactly which one he impregnated the whole bunch had to go. Hence why the vagina was torn apart so the foetus could be removed and all evidence of the unborn died and the public thought it was all a mad person killing sex workers.
@@longfadeYou're going to be my first victim ❤️👉🔪😈
Very well presented. Indeed, of all the serial killers before & since Jack the Ripper, his spree stands out from them all. He will most likely be the one that forever haunts us.
This video was great, I hope it gets a lot more attention.
All in good time
I'm fascinated with the Victorian era... have been ever since I started reading Sherlock Holmes. My other favorites are the Middle Ages, the Regency era, the Twenties and the sixties!👍
I feel theres a higher possibility of the " From Hell " note being real. The Ripper signed letters seem to extreme.
*too
I do believe it is possible Tabram was the very first murder from Jack, being the first murder irs possible Jack was still figuring out how he would kill people.
Like a new guitarist learning the F bar chord.
Charles Lechmere walked close by that spot on his way to work, and at a similar time.
kosminski was the killer.lechmere was just a bystander.@@lyndoncmp5751
dose not prove anything..@@lyndoncmp5751
@lyndoncmp5751 can any of you lechmere theorists place him at the scene of Martha's death at the time the crime was committed?
I'm glad you mentioned PC Sagar's suspect.
This case is fascinating to me, same as Black Dahlia. 🙂
Dr. Hodel
@@harcomou8395 Charles Allen Lechmere
Look at it through the eyes of Freemasons. ua-cam.com/video/VxJh_HAMx34/v-deo.html
@@harcomou8395No. George Knowlton.
@@harcomou8395I believe that he was related to the crime in some way. He ran with some pretty demented people in Hollywood.
I was once married to one of Frederick Deeming’s relatives, it was appalling the murders that he committed
Imagine working or living in the street where one of these murders happened 😔 I'd be so creeped out
Would ya?
I think it was Lechmere. I don't think Tabram was a victim. She was known to rob other prostitutes and it's said she was murdered as vengeance by relatives or friends of her victims. Stride was discovered by a man returning from work and he probably interrupted the crime. Kelly was possibly murdered in her home because the murderer had been almost caught at least once (Stride) and possibly twice if Lechmere was the killer. I also think all three main letters were from the killer - the one to Lusk being written whilst in a frenzied state.
That said, it could have been Kaminski, or Kosminski, but I do not think the MO fits on both counts. Kaminski fits the profile only in as much as his incarceration matches the final official victim. Kosminski would perhaps have carried on killing until incarcerated in 1891. It is difficult to truthfully say who did it. I doubt we will ever know. However, I personally think the Kelly murder was the last straw for Jack and he stopped killing afterwards. He may have tried, but the police presence maybe made it too dangerous for him. He may have also stopped (one time taking his handiwork indoors) because of City Police involvement after the Mitre Square murder. There were possibly also other would-be victims but he just never got the chance having lured the woman into a possible murder site.
Great video. But as I said. I think Lechmere did it. He's the only man discovered next to a murder victim. There's a few suspects based on people seen before the murders. But Lechmere is the only known direct contact. This alone makes him suspect number one. We don't know if he was considered a suspect because a lot of the police documents no longer exist. But he did lie about his name under oath at the inquest - and this fact alone could have seen him hung for the murders had the police been diligent enough to find out his real name. Lots of people say he never did the killings. But I have yet to see a viable reason for the synopsis. If Nichols is considered a Ripper victim, which she is, then Jack was interrupted because she was not left on display like the other victims - apart from Stride - where he was also interrupted. I find it too far fetched to imagine that Robert Paul discovered Lechmere / Cross next to Nichols' body, after Lechmere himself apparently disturbed the Ripper at work immediately beforehand. No one (Lechmere or Paul) saw somebody running off. And Lechmere's alibi, that he was walking forty odd yards ahead of Paul, does not make sense, because Paul never saw nor heard him. Lechmere could have been with Nichols for much longer than the few seconds he claimed. It has been established there is a rough distance of 100 yards between the murder site and the corner of Bucks Row, a tiny back street, where Paul subsequently entered behind Lechmere. Yet he never heard footsteps nor spotted Lechmere until approximately forty yards away from the dead body. The east side of Bucks Row is a straight road. PC Neal was able to flag down another policeman in the dark after discovering Nichols. The old school west of the murder site, along with a slight bend in the road, conceals who could have been walking toward the killer had he fleed. A policeman could have easily been walking along as he fled and alerted other officers with his whistle - besides also being armed with a truncheon to apprehend the killer. So I think Lechmere decided in a split second to face Paul and pretend he discovered Nichols dead body. Both the killer and prostitutes knew the time of the police rounds or beats, or prostitutes certainly did, because the women did not want to get caught with a man and fined for the crime. So when Cross and Paul went to find a policeman, PC Mizen, withholding their names, Cross presumably doing the talking, he said "you're wanted by a policeman in Bucks Row" knowing another copper would discover the corpse soon after killing Nichols. There is dispute about what was said to Mizen. But Mizen could not even recall that Robert Paul was there until prompted at the inquest. And it was Cross who discovered Nichols. So it would not make sense for Paul to speak to MIzen. Lechmere must of done all the talking. Paul might have even been stood across the road - given that Mizen did not even recall his presence. And both men then left Mizen - despite the fact that Nichols was presumably dead. It is said that Paul felt a heartbeat. This presumably means he thought she was dead or close to death. Paul wanted to sit Nichols up - which would determine whether or not she was alive or dead - and also show the neck wound. And Cross said no leave her. Or he would not help Paul. This was Robert Paul's testimony at the inquest. I think he might have suspected Lechmere but did not want to get murdered right next to Nichols. It is said Paul had a problem with the police. He went to the press behind their back after all. Yet the police were saying Neal found the body and were angry about Paul giving his version of events to the press. But almost everyone probably distrusted the police. And why did Mizen not speak out about the two men who failed to give their names to him. Or he failed to take their names, and perhaps treat the incident as a serious one, based on what he was told by Lechmere, who said she was either drunk or dead, playing down the seriousness of the issue, and allowing them to go on to work without being apprehended by Mizen. After all, had Nichols not been dead, and had Neal not discovered the body, that would mean that Mizen would have to walk the five hundred or so yards down Bucks Row searching for a woman in the dark who had possibly been drunk and got up and walked away after being disturbed from her drunken stupor by Cross and Paul. Ergo, Mizen must of been told another officer was present, so he could pinpoint the scene of the incident, without having to do it himself on a long dark road with lots of side alleys etc etc for an hour or more of his time. Cross must of told him another officer was present. And so he must of known that Neal or some officer would find Nichols after 03.45 am or thereabouts after he and Paul left her. Because as I said - the prostitutes knew the approximate police beat times - as did the killer - for his own means of escape.
It also took Lechmere three days, and a news story given by Paul on the Sunday, to come forward and present himself - as Cross - to the police. Cross worked at Pickfords, en route via most of the murder victims, as a delivery man of meat for local butchers and other establishments such as restaurants. These delivery (cart) men carried knives and wore leather aprons. They were also sometimes covered in blood from the animal carcasses. He could of committed the murders either on his way to work, or during work whilst waiting for meat to be unloaded from the cart, which apparently took a bit of time, as in up to thirty minutes or more. Plus the time of death might be slightly incorrect. One neighbour said they heard Chapman cry out, whilst another said he did not see her dead body around 05.00am, but they could both be incorrect. Lechmere might have murdered Chapman around the same time, 03.30am - 03.40 am, as he (possibly) did Nichols. The fact his birth name was not discovered for well over a hundred years itself speaks volumes. Some people say he used the name Cross. But he used the name Lechmere on his marriage certificate, and on his landlord rent arrangements, and his death certificate also cites Lechmere. He only used the name Cross whilst giving evidence regarding Nichols, at his work place for some reason, and when he accidentally killed a kid with his cart in 1876. Lechmere was his name in all other circumstances as far as we know - except for when he was a child and his mother took the name Cross. It sounds like he reverted to Lechmere as an adult - except on those three occasions.
It's also very interesting that both men left Mizen on their way to work and walked straight passed Annie Chapman's murder site just eight days later. Whilst if Lechmere had not walked with Paul along Hanbury street, walking passed Chapman's murder cite, and instead took the left fork down Wentworth Street - in direct view of Mizen - he would have walked right passed Martha Tabrams murder site from three weeks earlier - perhaps alerting Mizen - who may have called him or both men back. Chapman was then murdered before the inquest in Nichols' murder was not completed - taking the pressure off Lechmere via another horrific homicide and the realization that a serial killer was murdering prostitutes in the area.
Queen Victoria herself Blamed the London Metropolitan Policemen for not being able to catch & arrest Jack the Ripper.
He was never cought in the act.
One Major - Difficulty with catching criminals, was that many police forces suffered from a lack of transport, Police as a role walked, upwards of 20 miles a day in some cases.
Well researched and an excellent presentation.
Wow...my grandfather was a boy when these happened. Freaky.
How old are you then
Somehow this was one of the best overall coverings of the ripper that I've seen. I also really enjoyed the fact that you included both the suspects in which I truly believe were very likely to be the ripper; David Cohen & Jacob Levy.
Much appreciated!
Leaving Charles Allen Lechmere out as a suspect is criminal in itself.
Other than him being near the crime scene near the time of one of the deaths, everything else is speculation. Also one thing that is almost always agreed upon is the fact that someone with the MO of JTR would never have stopped killing, unless he was stopped (killed/captured), Lechmere died of old age decades after the killings. He gets no more than a 5/10. @@walkawaycat431
No evidence for either. Charles Lechmere was the ONLY suspect to have been seen by someone else lingering alone and acting suspiciously right next to the body of one of the victims at or near the time of death and with nobody else in sight or sound.
i agree with you..
I’ve always been intrigued by Druitt.. What “personal information “ did his family pass along to Scotland Yard..
There’s no real evidence against any of the suspects, but that detail has always intrigued me?.. What did his family say, or possibly know?..
Oh well, probably not Jack, sorta has an alibi for one murder, but….
You're on the right train of thinking, imo
Edmund Reed ? Hmmmmm....of Ripper Street. Historically accurate..good show
Wonderfully facinating. Keep up the great work
Great podcast, thank you ❤
Well done. Jack The Ripper is the ultimate who done it.
From the list of suspects, I'd like to hear more about the Anakin Skywalker theory...
Can’t wait! This case is extremely interesting to me
Love the details lots of suspects I never heard of untill today great work
wow the subject on history class is jakc the ripper on my school now and this is so good... i watched multiple documentaries about jack the ripper and even a documentarie on jill the ripper but this has given me wayyyyyyyy more info on jack then all of those documentaries combined....... love it. keep making videos- mrraggdol a youtuber with 0 subscribers
Well researched video. Good coverage of the crimes but also a sympathetic view of the diabolical and grinding poverty in the east end in 1888.
The torso murders were more horrific but didn't get the same publicity
Jack was led by the media. If newspapers and the police didn't make it in the media, Jack would've been forgotten
What do Winnie the Pooh and Jack the Ripper have in common?
The Same middle name.
The is not a noun so you are wrong unfortunately
@@HdHd-hp6qz no shit.
you mentioned both of them in a crappy youtube comment section?
😂
Whoo...I am impressed.
Great video one of the better documentaries I’ve watched
Jack the ripper was a monster but a deadly and well educated monster the worst kind of enemy
I have seen this film as a child in my Oxford english lessons. At the scool.
Fell asleep to this 😭
Jack just got up to a little tomfoolery, that cheeky prankster
Really good video lads, keep up the good work xoxo
Bit late to this, but I just want to say this is a great documentation of the story! Also nice easter eggs in the suspect list towards the end... got a good laugh out of me.
I wonder which name they wrote...
_"Remarkably, one person who did attempt to solve the Ripper murders was Dr Joseph Bell. Aided by a friend, Bell scrutinised the Scotland Yard suspects and some of his own. He and his friend worked towards their separate conclusions; then each wrote down the name of the person they suspected, and exchanged papers. As Bell noted, 'When two men set out to investigate a crime mystery, it is where their researches intersect that we have a result.' When they opened their papers, both men had the same name. They presented their findings to Scotland Yard - and the murders ended a week later. Unfortunately, their results have never been made public."_
This was a fascinating story and very interesting.This is a brilliant channel ❤
Great presentation I really enjoyed your video thank you for sharing
Jack the Ripper a New Investigation, is one of the best books on the subject. It details who might have done it, and why we are still so fascinated by the murders today.
Excellent documentary, never thought I would hear the phrase, silly sausage in a ripper video 😊
While I agree that the Shawl is likely not absolutely DNA proof that Aaron Kosminski was in fact Jack The Ripper, it has to be either A Coincidence that the killings stopped when he was Institutionalized, but it's A Plus, at the very least, that The Correlation exists. I would give him My Vote, of all of the men that were Suspects
Aaron was institutionalized in 1891 not in 1888 when the canonical murders began and ended
Big Fizhy and the boyos coming through with the business 💪 well in, fellas
This was really informative an entertaining!
Thank you great presentation
If Lechmere wasnt the killer, then why were the cuts on Nichols body concealed? It would have made sense to just leave her for Lechmere and Paul to find, like he did with the others. Also if Lechmere was actually going to work he would have a cast iron reason to be up in the early hours of the morning that could be verified by his employer.
Exactly.
Fun fact: The Pinchin street torso was found under the railway arch, 2 doors down from Charles Lechmere's mother Maria's house on Pinchin Street. Liz Stride's murder scene on Berner Street was literally around the corner from Pinchin Street. Maria lived there at the time both bodies were found. Lechmere grew up on Thomas Street, and the street was later named Pinchin.
your all over Y T and telling silly lies bout me - shame on you - silly person . " fun fact " have you heard of Will Hay Great British comedian made films 30ts 40ts you might like em - Fun jtr - ???
The only logical reason the mutilations were concealed was because the killer decided not to flee (a civilian coming from one direction, and probably police on beats in the other direction) and instead to bluff it out, hoping it wouldn't be evident what happened to Polly for the time being.
@@lyndoncmp5751old Cross certainly didn't know what he was doing -did she .
What a miserable life the poor londoners lived there in white castle. Then it got real bad
Really good JTR documentary. Well done.
Much appreciated!
@@DecadesVideoswho do you think did it?
@@tonywilliams7152 Charles Allen Lechmere.
Hello, I seen you on some other documentaries. You go girl.@@walkawaycat431
Thanks!
Knowing who he was would only spawn more questions - why was he way he was, what were his reasons for what he did? Only justice we can do to the victims is by helping out people in need and do what we can in our own communities to prevent conditions like those in London back in the days ever being present anywhere else, since those were to blame in equal manner as the killer himself.
Hahaha Anakin Skywalker as the Ripper. Love it!
Rey Skywalker
This was well worth watching t.y for sharing
Thank you for watching!
Dorset Road runs off Commercial Road, popular walkway. Case 1 Jr was interrupted. Case 2 JR took a Souvenir. case 3 JR was again interrupted, Case 4- Catherine Eddoes- Jr took a Souvenir. Case 5 - Souvenir - Heart.
Kosminsky is my best guess.
Bingo!!!! Kosminsky is literally the ONLY suspect with REAL evidence against him....and when the police had him watched 24/7, the murders stopped
You didn't have the modern techniques and equipment, you had to catch them in the act
Good overview of known facts while cautioning against the later sensational claims to have solved the case. As you point out, many are clearly hoaxes and others lack credible links between their supposed evidence and the murder scenes. “We don’t know” often is the most appropriate conclusion with the available evidence, but it’s difficult for some people to accept, whether talking about history or science.
Yeah, it's why I didn't want to weigh in with bias on the suspect aspect, too. We simply don't know from the perspective of history.
@DecadesVideos Have you watched "The Missing Evidence: Jack the Ripper?""
@@walkawaycat431i have. i also read Christer Holmgren’s book “cutting point”. the ripper and thames torso murderer is Lechmere.
@@MEME-qe4ze I agree.
Finished the entire video, well done!
Though I must say, perhaps I shouldn’t watch these before bed 😅
@@RoSprints understandable, thanks for watching!
its such a good and underrated video, but when i listen to it all i feel like is that he is going to start to talk about red dead
Understandable
The Ripper was Maybrick folks… Proven… Fact…
CASE CLOSED
Yeah but it absolutely hasn't.
In my opinion, Charles Lechmere is the most likely suspect. He was a local man, knew the area well, lived there his whole life, he "found" one the victims (so hes the only suspect definitely linked to a single crime scene), all the murders happened on his route to work amd around the time he would have been on his way to work. It all fits.
Agrree Charkes Lechmere / Charles Cross seems to be high suspect after watching other videos that go more in depth with the "first" crime scene
@@ehgore1978 Eh i can't fully get behind it tbh. Imagine this, the person who did it was SOOO far fucking gone that he butchered a woman to the very bone and took all her skin off and all her insides, took her heart. Lechmere still lived 30 years afterwards with family. If it was really him you ain't telling me he never showed any violence towards friends or family during before or after his killings. Nobody close to him ever said anything about him being violent, let alone skin a person to the bone like a pac of rabid dogs attacked.
It just does not sound believable to me, all because he was seen at the first murder? Sure it is suspicious but it does not equal him being guilty of being the ripper. The ripper was either a human who loved to rip woman to pieces or was mentally completely gone. Charles was neither. If anybody of the named suspects was it then look for someone who either died shortly after or got put in a mental institution.
Fans of the Charles theory are picking the 1 who probably lived the longest afterwards and had no criminal/violent history. makes no sense to me
@@kenzopeypers738 Did anyone ever said that Ted Bundy was violent?
@ehgore1978 Cross left home at 3.30 look at Harriet Lily statement
Cross was at work when Annie was killed
Stride not Ripper nothing linked his mo
Eddows was killed out of his way home room his mothere (but there's no evidence he was there)
Kelly was killed on a public holiday so he wasn't at work
Now where the proofb
Yes most serial killers do their crimes on the way to work. 😐
52:53 Anakin Skywalker? I don't think so. Anakin never had the patience or restraint to kill only one person at a time. He'd have left a bloody murder trail all over the streets and long unexplainable gashes in the sides of the buildings.
I've always held the opinion that Tabram was his first , but as I've got older (now 50) I'm not so sure regards Liz Stride , different knife , only one cut etc... I know it's been said he was disturbed mid act , but even that first cut is different .
Good work I enjoyed Victorian era but I do agree it has been glorified I sure wouldn't like to live through it I think how lucky we are to live in 21st Century.
It would of been sick if back in day Jeremy bret did Jack the Ripper tours playing his Sherlock holmes character from tv series
As a fan of Jeremey Brett, I entirely agree.
No tv, no lights. Just candles and gas lanterns. So imagine all the people outside all hours of the night. Nothing else to do.
Dying wish, who was jack the ripper.
I saw a great documentary on the History Channel called "American Ripper" which had the premise that H.H. Holmes was Jack. The great-great-grandson of Holmes and a former CIA officer investigated the case in the documentary.
There was tons of compelling evidence uncovered in the series including:
- Holmes was likely in London at the time of the murders as shown by ship logs which contained one of his known aliases. And he left London when the murders stopped - again shown by his alias appearing in logs for ships exiting London.
- The Dear Boss letter, which many have attributed to being written by the actual Ripper, was likely written by an American as some of the key terminology used in it wasn't spoken by native Londoners. But was verbiage more associated with Americans of that time period.
- Newspaper articles cited victims found in his house who were flayed open and dissected very similar to Ripper victims.
- Multiple eyewitness accounts of a man last seen with several victims were identical to Holme's description.
- Holmes' belongings included medical tools very similar to the type Jack the Ripper likely used.
- Much more interestingly, among his belongings, they found a series of pictures including a picture of what seemed to be one of Jack's victims when she was younger. Which was not a picture that would be available to the public. In other words, he likely took it from the victim herself.
There were a lot more clues that led to Holmes which were shown in the series but I won't list all of them. If you watch it you may be convinced that Holmes was the Ripper.
The doc is available on Hulu and elsewhere online. Look up "American Ripper free streaming" and you should find it.
Nah, completely different MO.
@@catherinelw9365 You can't come to a conclusion before having more information. Watch American Ripper to get it. It's really well done so it's great and worth the watch anyway. You'll gather more info while enjoying yourself.
It wasn't Holmes .
These policemen were so inept that it was almost laughable. That's why this guy was never caught. If Sherlock Holmes was on this case, I believe he would have solved it!😣
I also think tabram was very likely a ripper victim. I think the experience of killing her, and realising how many times he had to stab her to kill her made him change his MO. It was too dangerous to allow them a chance to scream out etc, so he killed them quicker. Ppl are often surprised by how many times you can stab someone before they die. They will obviously die later on but he couldn't leave any able to speak out or witness anything.
Do you think that Elizabeth Stride is a Ripper victim, she wasn't strangled the cut n knife used were different
@@mathewlawton1362 I think she probably was. It seems a big coincidence that he would also strike within an hour on the same night. I think the odds of their being two different killers who cut the throats of women both killing within 30mins-an hour of each other, and within a short walking distance, it seems highly unlikely to me. It's possible but if I had to put money on it I'd say they were the same killer.
@@mathewlawton1362 if it was a group enterprise she could also have been used as a distraction while he went after Eddows. After all Eddows had just been released from a police station where she had been making claims she knew who the killer was and was interested in the reward. If there was high level corruption involved then it would explain why Eddows was targeted and not in Whitechapel either.
Martha Tabram was murdered on Charles Allen Lechmere's new route to work. He had just moved to 22 Doveton Street less than 2 months before.
@mrdarren1045 He was interrupted and about to be caught. I believe she's a Ripper victim. She literally lived around the corner from Charles Allen Lechmere's mother Maria. Catherine Eddowes coincidentally was murdered on what would have been Lechmere's exact walk back to his house.
*Jack the Knife*
Why do you think the killer took some of the victims organs? These may have not been just “trophies” as he would have known that these organs would have went bad fairly quickly unless preserved. If preserved, how many men would have known and or had access to the materials to preserve the organs, and a place to store them without being questioned by family, friends etc? There was another serial killer who removed organs and ironically enough, had removed the uterus and would chew on it. His name was Andrei Chikatilo. I’m sure many of you have heard of a guy named Jeffery Dahmer. An American homosexual serial killer and cannibal. Dahmer, much like saucy ole Jack, we’re both sexually motivated serial killers. Dahmer ate parts of his victims because this gave him the most dominant power over them, and put them somewhere in his mind that they could never leave him. Perhaps Jack was somewhat similar to Dahmer in this perspective. Or, perhaps Jack did have access to materials to preserve the victims organs somewhere to hide them where people wouldn’t question it. But to assume this, could be assuming that Jack could have had some form of medical training in his past. Perhaps not a doctor, but a man that had some medical knowledge.
This is a very good video, y'all.👏👏👏
I think I'd only heard the theory of HHHolmes being the ripper. Certainly hadn't heard the theory about Anakin Skywalker 😅
For some reason, I was under the impression that the motivation related to a particular hatred of sex workers like misguided religious reasons I guess. Well now I'm reminded of Assassin's Creed's take on this, which was just bloody bizarre lol.
Good point made at the end. The Ripper story is kinda a perfect storm to hold onto the zeitgeist. Pre-dates modern forensics, but is still recent enough that there are (some) surviving documents and doesn't feel like a whole other world. It is also like a quintessential Victorian horror story.
H.H. Holmes the American ripper was in London that summer , has surgical skills and fits the description to the letter...the letters were thought up by the newspaper for sales along with the name
I think the H.H. Holmes theory is very bloated and promoted for the sake of sensationalisation, rather than looking at much hard evidence.
His manner of killing was very different to the rippers.
Completely different MO. Serial killers rarely change the way they kill.
Jack was described as having a British accent, which is where Holmes falls completely flat on its face
Yea it definitely wasn't Holmes .
Case 5 has some significance in the whole case. Firstly JR had the key to Mary's Apartment @ 13 Miller street. She claims was a lost key. WHen the Landlord came to collect the rent on 9/11/1888, material was still stuffed in the hole in the window to block the hole, caused in a fight between Joe and Mary. Now, I ask this question JR locked the door behind him after leaving, so how did he get the Key.....when Mary was drunk, or let himself in and stole the key, when window was broken...Therefore, this does not let Barnett off the hook. At 2 am when Mary worked she would be tired, possibly drunk, so this could mean Jack stole the Key while there, planning to return, I always thought Jack was known to Mary. This needs considerable thought. George Hutchinson was outside until 3 am. Possibility, or was Jack waiting, hiding ?? There is a big connection here to the IDENTITY of JR.
What if the ripper hated these women because he got syphillis or another std and that's why he did it? Also, maybe he died and that's why it stopped. It makes no sense that he'd just stop
The murders stopped because the police had Kosminski watched 24/7...It was the only thing they could do at the time
According to certain police officers who knew who he was, he was arrested shortly after the last victim and died in an asylum in 1901
I believe it was Dr John Watson; brutalised by his horrific experiences in Afghanistan, he had a moustache (as several witnesses identified), and carried a small doctor's bag; it would have delighted him to commit his crimes under the very nose of the most accomplished detective in the country.
Another great vid. Thank you guys so much.
Thank you for watching!
@@DecadesVideos I really appreciated where you made sure to mention, x is largely considered a hoax, y has never been verified, and z has been debunked by modern forensics, etc. Thank you for framing specifics of the case in the proper context.
@@gamerboy6787 too many documentaries lean towards bias so we, as a history focused channel, wanted to focus on the facts and express anecdotes, myths and hoaxes in the appropriate context for reliability on that front. We appreciate you noticing!
Liked this video . I'm American , and have been studying this case fanatically , for over 22 years !!!. I won't go into a huge amount of detail now , but MY BEST TOP SUSPECT IS EASILY JAMES KELLY , whom you mentioned , THANK GOD !!. PENNY FOR PENNY , POUND FOR POUND , NOBODY CAN BEAT JAMES KELLY , as having been the SUPER ELUSIVE " JACK THE RIPPER " !!!. Study up on him , I THINK YOU MIGHT AGREE!!!. IN WHITECHAPEL , LONDON , AND ALL OVER AMERICA TOO , FOR YEARS AFTERWARDS , JAMES KELLY LOOKS HARD TO DENY , AS A VERY , VERY , VERY , REAL POSSIBILITY!!!.
Superb! Not a subject I have much interest in, but that was excellent.
Glad to have provided you with a change of pace!
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Do more videos on the subject when you can, Mister Decades
Jack the Ripper was a Native English Speaker because at least one of the "Ripper Letters" is genuine !
Well presented.
Much appreciated
One thing that I feel is maybe inaccurate/misunderstood, he probably wasn’t super knowledgeable when it came to anatomy, there’s speculation that he might have been a doctor or some such. When I believe medical experts at the time felt that the suspect likely had some knowledge based on the state of the victims; I’m not sure why there seems to be this misconception he was some master with a scalpel. Especially given the state of his last victim. I mean even his name suggests the brutality, he wasn’t called Jack the Ripper for nothing. I personally think the surgeon angle is a result of false reporting of the media at the time.
Anybody ever stop to think if one of the cops walking around all night was the killer
Cracking video guys
I have always thought Jack the ripper was a woman. A mid-wife covered in blood would not an unusual sight at that time.
Is this the same guy who owns “Fizhy” UA-cam channel? He sounds so much like him.
Aye
@@DecadesVideosCool stuff bruh. I love your content on Red Dead Redemption video game series ❤️
You ask at the end whether Jack the Ripper deserves to be named or should be named, and conclude (as far as I can tell) that the answer is "no".
Are you seriously saying, Decades, that if you weren't granted some superhuman way of determining his identity with certainty, that you wouldn't jump at the chance?
There's just some murderers you'll never find
The East end hasn't changed much😢
Looking at the list of suspects at the end, I’m going with Anakin Skywalker as the Ripper. He seems flamboyant and violent enough to be saucy Jacky
Him
@@Fizhy apologies for the typo
Llewellyn is my mom's last name. Thank you for saying it right. It's a tricky one. Lol
Okay, so I clicked on this video because I was interested, having no Idea that the narrator was fizhy. I just clicked on a random video.
Surprise!
Why is Anakin Skywalker there?