Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
Hi Tony. Didn't you know the Ripper case is solved now, have you not got Tom Slemen's new book?
Hi Ged,



Almost every author claims to have solved the ripper case. I'm not aware of Tom Slemen's new book but unless the original victims bodies are exhumed (which is very unlikely to happen now) and some kind of DNA match can be made, I don't think we will ever definitively know who the ripper was.

My own personal favourite for being the ripper is James Maybrick (as you know) but I also feel Francis Tumblety ticks a lot of the right boxes. The other distinct possibility is that more than one person committed the murders - ie that there was one original ripper and then a second who began copycat killing. In this scenario it is just possible that Tumblety was the original ripper and that Maybrick killed Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddows and Mary Kelly.

Interesting stuff!