"JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - An eminent South African historian believes he has stumbled on the identity of Jack the Ripper."...
"Scores of people have been accused of the Ripper murders, but no one has ever been proven guilty and London police put the number of most likely suspects at just four, among them a poor Whitechapel resident named Kosminski who, like Silver, was a Polish Jew. At the time, Londoners speculated the killer was Jewish"
"Scores of people have been accused of the Ripper murders, but no one has ever been proven guilty and London police put the number of most likely suspects at just four, among them a poor Whitechapel resident named Kosminski who, like Silver, was a Polish Jew. At the time, Londoners speculated the killer was Jewish"
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Vanhimmat
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_en_ot/safrica_jack_the_ripper
on epäilty kaikista mahdollisista selvittämättömistä rikoksista. Et kuitenkaan siteerannut sitä kohtaa artikkelista, jossa myös esitettiin ribbetologien skeptinen asenne tähän 'uuteen löytöön' (se ei muuten ole mikään uusi).
"While the book has been well-received, reaction from "Ripperologists" has been skeptical as van Onselen makes his case on circumstantial evidence.."
Täydentääkö tämäkin 'paljastus' jotenkin käsitystäsi palstan aiheesta??
"Suspects
Suffice to say genuine suspects are far fewer than the prolific authors of the genre would have us believe. In fact, to reduce them to only those with a genuine claim having been nominated by contemporary police officers, we are left with a mere four. They are:
* Kosminski, a poor Polish Jew resident in Whitechapel;
* Montague John Druitt, a 31 year old barrister and school teacher who committed suicide in December 1888;
* Michael Ostrog, a Russian-born multi-pseudonymous thief and confidence trickster, believed to be 55 years old in 1888, and detained in asylums on several occasions;
* Dr Francis J. Tumblety, 56 Years old, an American 'quack' doctor, who was arrested in November 1888 for offences of gross indecency, and fled the country later the same month, having obtained bail at a very high price.
Inspector Donald SwansonThe first three of these suspects were nominated by Sir Melville Macnaghten, who joined the Metropolitan Police as Assistant Chief Constable, second in command of the Criminal Investigation Deptment (C.I.D.) at Scotland Yard in June 1889. They were named in a report dated 23 February 1894, although there is no evidence of contemporary police suspicion against the three at the time of the murders. Indeed, Macnaghten's report contains several odd factual errors.."
.."ndeed, arguments can be made against all of them being the culprit, and no hard evidence exists against any of them. What is obvious is the fact that the police were at no stage in a position to prove a case against anyone, and it is highly unlikely a positive case will ever be proved. If the police were in this position in 1888-1891, then what hope for the enthusiastic modern investigator?.."
Myös muita epäiltyjä on lueteltu.. jopa kuninkaallisia :)
from: http://www.met.police.uk/history/ripper.htm
Se siitä uutuudesta, mutta koska 'mysteeri' on ratkaisematta, sillä voi käydä kauppaa yhä edelleen.