Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Makes sense.

Jack the Ripper may have been itinerant sailor

Not much to go on really, but a surgeons mate or a butcher from a ship would have the experience with the knife. Being out of the country would explain the long gaps between killings, but none of it really explains the literate nature of the letters the killer sent to the police. Seaman, for the most part, not having time to get too literate, though by the 1890's that may have been changing, I dunno.

Interesting theory.

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