Why Did The Ripper Suddenly Disappear?
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I think thats exactly what creeps me out. The fact that several brutal criminals have and are walking around us without us even knowing.
They got him mate , some other stories from the police are they knew who it was but couldn't prove it, so they let the "right" policeman know an they killed him off the books , murders stopped
Another reason to always be polite. :)
I say they look for a guy named Jack
@Yang Jungwon you could always ask.
hes dead
I love how you casually changed the topic from the brutal murders of Jack The Ripper to "Now, I love food..."
2 of my favorite hobbies 😃😁
Don't forget work from cutting apart animals.
So did Hannibal Lechter. I understand he was quite fond of census taker liver with fava beans and a nice chianti. Now let me tell you all about the wonderful pre-school I just enrolled my baby in!!!!!!!
Funny that something made out of powder supposed to be healthy. But it could be worse. One of Thoughty2 sponsors could be low carb, gluten free rice patties.........tee hee hee.
I paused right here. "here's this vicious butcher of the London underworld who carved out the organs of several victims... "... doesn't that put you in the mood for a good kidney pie? I know *I'm* working up an appetite!!"
I read somewhere that a ship came around that time with (I think some navy men). When it arrived/left it matches the murder timeline perfectly and there was one individual they suspected from the group because as soon as the ship departed/men left the murders stopped.
Carl feigenbaum. Executed for cutting a woman s throat in 1896 at sing sing
There was also a theory that he went to NY (sailor?) and committed similar murders. In the scheme of things no one will ever know.
There are some great theories about Jack the Ripper disappearing, but he's from an era where the guy could have drank some bad water and shat himself to death. We'll never know
An interesting theory lol x
@@schrodingerscat8242 if a historian ever discovered evidence of that it'd be one of the biggest letdowns in human history!
that’s amazingly put 😂
That's what I'm saying lmao! Did humans suddenly forget that people can just die?
😂😂😂😂
My biggest issue with this is the precision with which the organs were removed. I've heard from a woman who works at a morgue and does autopsies, that the speed and precision used by Jack the Ripper required high level training. She said she doubts she could work as fast and as precise as him, and that's with modern tech and, and she stressed this very much, with light. The murders happened in the dark, as were the mutilations. Like dark dark. Remember it was too dark for people to even see the pool of blood on the ground. No suspect I've seen put forward would have the capability of successfully removing the organs in the dark without completely mutilating them. She also pointed out that one of the cuts to open one of the bodies was EXACTLY how autopsies are done. She said if she ever did what he was doing, she would use that exact cut without even thinking about it. It would be the most natural thing for her. She doubted that a butcher would be able to find the organs in the dark as animals are different enough that you have to know your way around a human body. So while I like your theory as I too was initially suspicious about the dude he didn't want to move the body, I don't think that's our guy. Thanks for the video though. You do a masterful job of telling stories and I really appreciate watching your vids.
So, someone highly trained, knowing the streets in and out, and had a deep dislike of prostitutes. All 3 are must have beens for the killer... Who of the suspects had all 3?
There's ways we dont know about history like how they put the Pyramids together, So past people have their ways since they still dont have the technology to do so. As like he said he wasnt able to mutilate the first one so he practice on the 2nd up until he knows where to go around getting the right cut, Thats why the last one. was perfectly executed. Like they always say "Practice makes Perfect"
All stories ive heard told of him, this is mentioned, he must have been working in a field where he got those skills and could not just have been some random guy or schizophrenic whom just decided to murder.. Its sad that this was left out when its such a big part of the mystery and speculations, the man would most likely have been well educated. I also heard in all stories that they found grape vines near the dead, but I'm not sure if that's just a common lie?
@@Gwenx how are grape vines relevant?
@@ILLUSI_O_N-V1 who knows but it could be relevant
This guys story telling abilities is on a different level.
Indeed
A level of awesomeness!!
He moves his hands around too much now days, but I still agree
British people are good at telling stories. Look at history;
Very good indeed, but my number one is Mr. Ballen! 😂
Your theory is perfect! When I taught this case in my Forensic Science class, the general consensus among my students was that Jack was someone who belonged in White Chapel and was therefore invisible to investigators, not to mention you always have to question the one who found the body.
Iv not watched the video fully yet but my theory was they got him but couldn't prove it an they just killed him or another plausible thing was he got arrested and jailed for something else , weird to not gave a conclusion tho 😔
' when you taught ' so your pupils were unanimous he lived local erm yeah -give yourself a pay rise.
Every single body had to be found by somebody. The evidence against Lechmere is pretty thin, but that doesn't bother many people who simply want to name a killer.
@@GilbertSyndromeIt's honestly probably no one they ever found.
That last victim feels incredibly personal. Did anyone amongst the student body feel a similar way ? The level of mutilation, getting to the victim in their home, it felt personal where as the other victims felt like random victims of unfortunate timing.
I think it's important to note that there's actually evidence that not all of the victims were prostitutes. There's firm evidence that at least two were, but we can't tell for certain if the others were. I highly recommend The Five by Hallie Rubenhold, which talks about the women and their hostories instead of focussing on their murders alone. We're all fascinated by the mystery, but it's so important to remember that they were real women who were vulnerable, and were brutally murdered.
I have read the life histories of all the canonical five and they were clearly all prostitutes or indulged in casual prostitution from time to time. Exactly who are you claiming wasn't a prostitute?
@@kayla-Rey22 I think it's more or less agreed that Mary Jane Kelly and Elizabeth Stride were prostitutes or more accurately that was their primary source of income whereas, for some of the others, it's agreed that they engaged In prostitution when they were desperate and unable to make money by other means. I think @Charlie-pu9bx means that most of the victims weren't career prostitutes
Agreed, the book was so engaging also if you are interested one of the best podcasts on the case is from the serial killer podcast. He has a whole series on Jack the Ripper it goes into amazing detail and you find out so much about the women as people, he reminds you that these were people and not just players in a story, really emotive and compassionate as well as fascinating
Who gives a fuck about them they died
@@kayla-Rey22 I highly recommend reading The Five by Hallie Rubenhold. Very good book that explores the lives of the victims and how they weren't all career prostitutes.
Thank God, you talked about the first guy. Him just wanting to leave the person/body there was weird af
Not really
I am surprised none is targeting any females on this maybe 🤔 some other prostitute that just wanted more earnings and she stopped because she achieved her goal since only men were suspected and likely lots of other prostitutes left the area being afraid. She could been a monopoly 🤔
it's really not, people pass out drunk all over the place (and that's what he thought she was) and most people wouldn't try and help a drunk stranger at 3am
@@earl_gay yeah, but it was in a lonely street. it wasnt an area where they had bars and such things
Look at this day and age… not many people take the time to make sure random people are okay… So no it’s not weird, humans are just heartless like that.🤷🏽♂️
The mortuary attendant Robert Mann. He lived in the middle of the murders. Being an attendant meant he knew the inner workings of the bodies, etc. Also there was 1 more victim after Jack vanished, but they thought someone was copying to throw off police. Specialist figured that it was Jack, only he was sick or injured b/c the cuts to the neck weren't as deep. Turns out Robert Mann was suffering from TB. He slowly grew weaker and died not long after.
He has been a prime suspect IMO.
I always thought the Ripper either died or went abroad , Serial killers don’t just stop
@@minkyfran8307 I get what you mean, but I'm sure a percentage probably have.
@@ominouspigeonmaster1571 It’s a compulsion that intensifies , they usually don’t stop until they die or get caught , Don’t take my word for it , just do some research , that isn’t meant to be snarky , just informative ❤️
@@minkyfran8307I'm just thinking that, all the information we have generally comes from the killers that were caught, by that very compulsion. If any did just stop, we probably wouldn't know about it.
The artist Walter Sickert, who was part of a 'team'. Some of his art in later years is shockingly reminiscent of the mutilations. Nose removed etc. Can't remember the name of the book now though. It was very convincing.
Patricia Cornwell was the author. I thought she made a good case.
My favourite theory is that it was the infamous HH Holmes. His killings in America had a lull around the same time and there is a HH Holmes on a ship itinerary returning to America shortly after the killings ended. Probably not him at all but, as I say, my favourite theory.
My favorite theory too 👍
He is also high on my list, with only the question of how he knew that area of London well enough to always get away in time to avoid being caught.
He didnt kill people that way. He killed people he knew and lulled into trusting him, almost always with poison
That part made me laugh 😂 "He admitted to having forged the diary, then he retracted the retraction, then retracted the retraction of retraction "
Me too😂😂
It is funny how he couldn’t decide to keep going through with the charade then deciding to ride it for all it was worth. 🤣
It was Micheal Scott all along… Snip Snap Snip Snap
People like that should be sentenced, it’s hardly something to piss around over.. the guys a straight ahole
I believe you forgot to mention about perfect cuts he made. I'll always believe it was someone with a great knowledge of human anatomy at that time. Like a doctor, med student, or professor in the same field.
butchers had a great understanding, and pigs are the closest to human anatomy
@@Billygoatsgrruff Hi Professor! I forgot to mention mortician. Yes, very similar 👏 but from my angle still not good enough... I can also throw taxidermist into your option :)
That’s debated. There were coroners that said he had skill and those that said it was barbaric and unsurgical in every way. Charles lechmere was by the first victim and only witness see with a body. He lived in the area. Worked nights, and delivered meat some his clothes were always bloody. And to top all that off gave a different name when summoned for questioning
@@PoulsboHoodlum Nathan 👋 Yeah, after butcher(ing)😜 all day, the last thing i'd do is butcher some more. Let's agree to disagree 😉 I also think he was humiliated by a whore. So I'd probably ask girls NOT "Who are you afraid of?" I'd ask "Tell me about a funny/hilarious and/or a rumor story from one of the girls you know."
@@Billygoatsgrruff true
i think this is a case where we will truly never know who the actual killer was but it is a fascinating subject for criminal justice and history. i believe its just the case of we'lll never truly know who jack the ripper was.
Whenever i come across the story of this infamous serial killer, i remember one of the most influental PC games for me i've ever played: Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper Either the game creators had their own ideas about who might the Ripper have been or they chose one of the possibilities and put in their own story. That game changed my interest about JtR. It made me search about it, i read real statements (which were put in the game as they were), i looked at the locations, Whitechapel maps, etc. At the end of the game the killer was detected by Holmes but he let JtR be eliminated by his (JtR's) own people. So the killings ended. I have no idea who was Jack but i strongly believe he was killed or died somehow (disease, accident, even suicide, etc) after his last victim.
his ability to go from talking about a serial killer to anything sponsoring him without stopping is so cool
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You do know he shoots the sponsorship separately and inserts it through editing. Watch for a change of shirt when promoting
@@myscreen2urs yes but it still is amazing how he edits it so perfectly
@@CantTellYou gotta pay the bills - at least it's good production
Adverts aren't cool dude
I actually suspected the person who just so happened to "stumble across the body" at the very start so when you revealed him to be the most suspicious person on the list I was kind of shocked lol.
I haven't heard of the story just the name but with my logical thinking and tell me if I'm wrong who is more likely to kill them I really am afraid was yet one other prostitute because think this Jack would target men none will search the women and last but most important this story most likely scared off other prostitutes of the same place its the perfect plan to have a monopoly yet seeing the photos they were good looking women most likely eliminated because they were taking so many customers and as for the brutality she could be more angry with the some
@@redflagy8 I don't know... a woman in that day and age with that kind of strength and medical knowledge? AND be poor enough to know the neighborhood like that? I don't know...
@@gaaraxnaru Mary Shelley started science fiction decades before...
@@gaaraxnaru maybe you are right women at that time weren't like today I am looking this as if it happened in the modern Era 🤔
@@robbsclassics Okay? But writing about it is different from actually cutting a person up and having the physical strength to do some of the things Jack did. Also a woman covered in blood is a bit more strange than a working man covered in it. Unless she was a butcher's wife or something. But a fellow prostitute? It just doesn't add up.
Letchmere was already nearly 40 years old at the time of the Whitechapel murders and had no criminal record. Moreover, he died in 1920. It would have been a long time without killing for a serial killer. As he was not of the kind to hide his victims, if there were some more, everybody would know. One can imagine that the dockyard fire was a "revelation" for "the Ripper," and that his series was a first for him. Based on what we know today about serial killers, he must have been in his thirties, lived in Whitechapel, and likely worked as a laborer (which would explain why he roamed early in the morning to find employment). He must have died or been institutionalized or imprisoned, at the latest, by 1895. And if he did not die, either he was incarcerated for life, or he died during his imprisonment, or he was released to old to be able to kill anymore...
Stubbled across your channel- brilliant thank you
I’ve heard the Lechmere theory before and I think he’s the best suspect. Not only bc of everything you mentioned but bc of his actions when Paul found him, how he acted during the exchange, and lying to the police afterwards. See when he called over Paul to look at her, no blood was visible, but by the time a constable found her shortly afterward, a pool had formed around her neck, suggesting the cut to her throat was extremely fresh when Lechmere and Paul were present. He also refused Paul's suggestion to prop her up, which would have instantly made it clear that her throat had been cut. In addition, neither man reported seeing or hearing anyone else on that particular street, which had no side exits. Her injuries were hidden under her clothing, whereas the Ripper typically left the wounds displayed. The theory goes that Lechmere had killed Nichols and begun the process of mutilating her body when he heard Paul, and then rushed to play it off like he found her. Lechmere lied to police, claiming that he had been with her body for a few minutes, whereas research on his route to work from his home showed that he must have been with her for about nine minutes. To top that off, not only did his way to work pass almost all the crime scenes but the night that two were killed, Lechmere was off work. .
@@jamescorlett5272 are you certain? I mean a meat cart driver ain't to far from butcher and that's who the police assumed were doing the killings, maybe he got experience from the place he was working at. unless you were there you can't say for sure.
@@jamescorlett5272 are you sure? Sounds like another weak example of yours. Try again.
Where were his knives?
@@highcountrydelatite Genetic tests published this week point to Aaron Kosminski, a 23-year-old Polish barber and a prime police suspect at the time.
@@jamescorlett5272 no you aren't you're just doing it out of spite you child.
Surprised you didn't mention the Jill the Ripper theory. Supposedly a midwife, which would give her knowledge of the female reproductive system, as well as an excuse for being out during the curfew - "Sorry officer, I'm going out to deliver a baby." That said, your theory of Charles Lechmere seems pretty strong, and is probably my favourite.
Well many witnesses never saw a woman with the victims prior to their deaths, they saw and heard a man speak merely minutes before the killings of these victims
Especially considering we now know serial killers tend to show up at crime scenes and also like to be involved as a witness with the police.
@@ryantannehill2830 Most killers are present at the crime scene atleast once(when the killing occurs). Some will come back later, but that wouldn't be the case here. Someone being disturbed and caught on scene might be more likely if he's just developing his modus operandi. And the change from a covered body to full display would make sense if the killer was interrupted on the first one or if he witnessed the discovering of a body and thought he could improve there. Also Lechemere didn't notice someone except Paul and Paul noticed Lechemere only when he stood next to the body. But the shoes of that age were hearable for some distance (especially at night). So why couldn't Paul hear someone walking just a few seconds in front of him? And if there was no blood visible for the first two witnesses but a huge pool for the Constable the time between the murder and the discovery by Lechemere/Paul must be shorter than the time between them leaving and the Constable finding her(and calling for a doctor). When the doctor arrived he concluded that she was dead "no more than 30 minutes". Which would mean that the constable found her maybe 5 or max 10 minutes after her death. Which means that there was almost no time left for any killer to walk away before Lechemere discovered her, Paul arrived, both discussed what to do and walking away to find a policemen.(all in 2-5minutes)
@@philw6056 your analysis makes sense
Of the suspects named, Lechmere or "David Cohen" (probably not his actual name), a violently insane Eastern European Jew arrested in December 1888 who died in the asylum in early 1889, strike me as the most likely. The big problem with Lechmere, based only on what we know about him, is why did he stop? The general theory from every criminologist and profiler is that it's really unlikely the Ripper would've stopped murdering by choice. He had to have died, moved away or been incarcerated. Lechmere appears to have lived in London until he died in 1920. The problem with "Cohen" is he was so overly nuts by the time that he was arrested you wonder how he could've possibly passed as a client long enough to get the women to go with him. Although he could've deteriorated significantly between the Kelly murder and being arrested.
Exceedingly well done, sir! You have a gift for content creation.
I can’t say I’m a huge Jack the Ripper follower but it you into paranormal or unsolved mystery type of shows you always come across Ripper history. The newest and biggest thing I found out in this program was records and reports were destroyed in the blitz. I find that interesting. Thanks. Cool to hear something new including new suspects. Thanks!
it’s weird. The moustache used to horrify me, but now I can’t imagine him without it. It really suits him (horrify was hyperbole, obviously i wasn’t horrified, I just didn’t think it looked that good. It looks great now in my opinion though. Not that my or anyone else’s opinion on it really matters. He clearly liked it and stuck with it)
"A man without a moustache is a man without a soul." Confucius
I know! That stash has a hypnotic power that no normal person can resist!
This guy have some interesting topics. But I can’t stand to watch him. He is so irritating with the way he move his hands all the time I can’t stand it. From where I’m coming from moving your hands so much like that while talking is a sign of stupidity and bad vocabulary.
@@VIK_1903 so austrian mustache man was good all along
So dumb, lmao. Must be a teen.
My Great Grandmother wrote of the fear and horror generated by Jack the Ripper's crimes. She didn't move about the city after dark, let alone walk-through Whitechapel. I'm going with the thought that Charles Lechmere was "the ripper." Many thanks, Arran.
Then, what made him stop?
@@Sool101 -- Who knows? Possibly, the fear of someone close to him finding out about his crimes caused him to stop his killing spree. I doubt if the killer started to develop a conscience.
@@walterfechter8080 usually the more killers kill the more mad and arrogant they become. However not all are like that
@@Philip54622 -- So true.
@@walterfechter8080 Agreed. I do wonder about Lechmere's physical condition. If he was injured or became seriously ill, maybe he physically couldn't commit more murders.
I always like to think these ones "that got away" actually didn't. Rather, they fucked around and found out. Zodiac is another, where I think they were trying to do their normal routine (or perhaps, were accosted before they could) and quietly murdered and removed from existence. The pathology of serial killers makes it seem extremely unlikely they would just stop. Every one, there is an escalation and an intense, visceral need to commit their crimes. You don't just move on from that.
Serial killers often kill themselves, or are imprisoned for different crimes.
Categorically wrong. BTK killer took a 10 year hiatus.
Golden state killer stopped after the arrival of DNA testing (he was in law enforcement)
This could not be more wrong. It’s a total myth that serial killers can’t stop. BTK and LISK come to mind.
Watching Criminal Minds doesn't make you a criminal psychology expert. Serial killers stop all the time...
I was just watching American ripper in London on UK tv and was being drawn into the H.H.Holmes theory, I'm just upto the bit where they look in the river in USA, so still on season one, well I was impatient waiting to watch the next week's installment I looked on KZhead, found my fav channel thoughty2 and didn't realise you had what I craved so your spin on it surprised me, I believe your evidence and now I don't have to waste my time on the wrong guy. Thanks for saving me some life, I hate finding I've wasted my time on bullshit, now I'll get back to waiting eagerly for your latest tasty knowledge sandwich with extra class, best wishes 😊👍
No.
Lechmere being The Ripper makes sense when you think specifically about the night Jack struck twice. It's almost like he knew from prior experience that it would be better to just leave to avoid any interaction (especially since The Ripper was a known killer by that point), and try again.
Has plenty of flaws to like other likely candidate's for me i don't even think the last one was him I highly suspect her husband or ex husband whatever it was can't really remember as that was a clear murder out of passion and his dodgy behaviour and lies has me looking directly at him for her murder that is.
My moneys on lechmere
@@jabronisauce6833 I agree on the last murder. I’d also put money on Lechmere being the Ripper, but think Barnett was responsible for Mary Kelly and just tried to make it look like the work of the Ripper.
Also his path he took to work 2-3am was also the same path women were killed at 2-3am lol 😂 and he was full of hatred with women apparently
@@ZaidrianSpiders Yes, timing and locations are pretty compelling clues, I think. I’ve said this under other comments too, but I think the resentment of women stemmed from a dysfunctional relationship with his mom. And they had a falling out right before the first murder and reconciled shortly after the last, so I personally believe he was misdirecting his rage towards her to other women who were all of a more matronly age. And this is also why he went for the womb and why there wasn’t a sexual element to the murders. Mary Kelly was only outlier in age, which is another reason I lean towards Barnett, or at least someone else, committing that murder. Frustrating that we will never know for sure…
Thanks for publishing nicer pictures of the victims than most jack chroniclers, it's easier to feel empathy when you see these.
I had no idea there even were pictures of them! I was shocked! It makes it feel so real
@@sagevia-hall8757 because it it real
@@sagevia-hall8757 Because they actually happened. I don't know if you worded it wrong, But yes It makes it more sad, and I don't really like looking at them because my mind puts puts the faces together with the murder and I freak myself out.
@@BasedToastnt i think they did word it wrong lol pretty sure they meant it made the murders feel closer, more recent, rather than a story of an unknown killer from the late 1800s.
@@rvfssx8184 no, they didn’t word it wrong. Even if the murders really happened (like they did here), at this point it’s a story, the average person these days thinks of these as stories. When you see real pictures of the victims, it makes the story feel more real, and then your brain recognizes that these were real. So even though it was always real, it never FEELS real to most people. So saying that the pictures make it “feel so real” is completely correct, what you, and the others here mean, is that what they said was misleading
I read in an article that Jack the Ripper moved to South Africa and lived his life out in a small town in the middle of nowhere!
Wrong he moved to 20century San Francisco after he stole HG Well's time machine.
Very interesting. As a person interested in the science of profiling criminals and behaviour, the moment you mentioned how the first body was found at the beginning of the video, I thought "He's an extremely likely culprit."
I personally suspect that Jack the Ripper was an unidentified member of the British Military, since there are descriptions of him in a Millitary uniform, he was described to be of millitary age and is said to have had experience with anatomy which could imply that he had served as a medic of some kind or a ship's doctor. This could also explain the sudden abrupt end to his spree and why it never resumed, he could have been deployed overseas and died while on deployment.
This actually makes so much sense. I had never really thought of anything like that.
It does make sense but I've never heard of any witnesses having seen the murderer so how was he described to be of military age or being in a military uniform?
A butcher wears a leather apron and would have a good grasp of anatomy. It’s also known that some serial murderers stop even for decades. BTK the most well known. A local man with butchering experience fits better.
have you heard that some people think jack the ripper was a woman but i will say that what you’re saying seems to make more sense lol
@@curandas8801 If I remember correctly LEMMiNO did an excellent documentary on Jack The Ripper called *The Enduring Mystery of Jack the Ripper* and it at least alludes that Jack the Ripper might have been a solider or sailor based on some witness description and if I remember correctly he was as described to be around military age. I could be wrong about that it's been a while since Iast watched it. *The Enduring Mystery of Jack the Ripper:* kzhead.info/sun/n6V9cqx8nl-Ap3k/bejne.html
It’s actually pretty common for male serial killers to target prostitutes. The reason is usually related to having an abusive or neglectful mother, and they view killing a prostitute as killing a sad excuse of a woman. Also, as mentioned, prostitutes are often easy targets
Yeah I'd even morbidly say that Prostitutes are used as practice or to get a feel because most times no one will miss them before going onto bigger "game" It's just so.....wow.
Your last point is important. Prostitutes would have gone with him to where they weren't likely to be disturbed, which is what the killer would have wanted too.
I read a book by Bruce Robinson declaring Michael Maybrick (the singing composer and brother of James) as Jack, stating he was the murderer of His own brother and had framed Florence to take the wrap. She was eventually released due to lack of evidence. After reading all his horrible evidence I’m pretty much in the Michael camp. Worth a read as it’s very compelling.
That was a great book. Wasn't the title something like "They all loved Jack". I remember reading it once.
Absolutely love the moment at 18.46 where you display the silhouette of C.L and then spring up like Dracula arising from his coffin in front of the image. Nice expressionistic touch. Also wondering Thoughty, why you didn't consider Frank Tumblety a worthy suspect?
I'm really glad you brought up the first guy the see a body again. I was thinking the whole time that he was quite suspicious trying to leave the body undisturbed. Could have been both of them covering for each other for all we know.
What are you saying!? Your first sentence sounds like you had a stroke...
So if you found a random body youd start touching it? No lol the general consensus is to not touch something you’re not sure of until authorities say otherwise. Creep.
@@ivyrose5153 No... But to render assistance is not what most would call a creep move. People do it every day.
@@gorfmaster1 Most people do render assistance though.
If Charles was the killer, then why did he stop after five victims? Since it was not on the police radar he may have moved away or died with no notice of it. Is there any explanation as to why if Charles was a killer that he suddenly stopped killing?
My favorite ripper theory (just the one I find most interesting not the one I believe most likely) was that he was an abortion doctor who mutilated and/or removed their reproductive organs to cover up botched abortions. Also, was Catherine endowed the only one with facial mutilation? If so she might be the key to figuring out the whole thing. Messing up her face feels so much more personal, so Jack could have known her before the murder.
MJK also did have her face heavily mutilated. Just like the entire rest of her body. The pictures that exist..... Are terrifying. I heavily recommend not looking them up. That being said; I believe her ex boyfriend to be a good candidate. The man lost his job a short while before the murders started which forces MJK to go back to prostituting herself. He was unhappy with this. Shortly thereafter, the murders started. Now, my theory is that he committed those murders to scare her away from prostitution, after a few murders it is recorded that he visited her again but it isn't known what exactly happened. When questioned by the police he said he talked to her trying to get back with her and when it was clear that wasn't gonna happen he left, around an hour after arriving. She then, we know from her neighbour, went out to find clients, came home very drunk. And was murdered. In the most brutal way of any of Jack the ripper's victims. She was the last victim that is commonly agreed to have been murdered by Jack the ripper. His name is Joseph Barnett and I say he is the most likely candidate for Jack the Ripper that I am aware of. If you want to get into learning a bit more about Jack the Ripper I highly recommend Lemmino's video on him. It's about an hour long, detailed, presents all the cases that are commonly agreed to have been the Ripper's victims and presents some likely candidates, all without showing any gruesome pictures.
For the second part I'd recommended watching lemmino's video on this for a possible explanation
No, Mary Jane Kelly had her face viciously mutilated too, I don't think anything can be found from looking into the victims, they were just easy targets I imagine, poor forgotten trollops
Jack the Ripper was a Police officer. Thats why he knew the police routes and shifts or what not, hence he never got caught also🤷🏽♂️
@milanthapa7302 have you ever seen a map of London at the time? The whole city was a maze of alleyways. They couldn't catch him because it was impossible to catch him in the act.
I've looked at the pictures he referred to, and I can confirm that they're _definitely not_ for the faint of heart. He's not kidding when he says they're not "unseeable"
Kosminki was committed by his family to an insane asylum shortly after Mary Kelly’s murder. The murders stopped.
The recent book The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold is an excellent that refutes the story that all five women were prostitutes. Most were poor and unemployed women. The book focuses on the lives of the women up until their murders. I've been researching the Ripper since the 80s and have read dozens of books and about 150 hours of videos
Have you watched "The Missing evidence: Jack the Ripper?" On the Smithsonian channel? Best suspect to date, I won't say the name, it will ruin it. You investigating the White chapel murders, surprised you didn't mention his name.
May they rest in peace it is easy to forget this were real people
A book that focuses in the lives of 5 women of the time is pure fantasy. If police and pretty much nobody has details about someone life how the fk would a writer be able to write a book about the lives of 5 poor women in the 19nt century. Get real, that book has as much validity as transformers being real lol
@@AlexEternalChampHave you read the book?
So who is your prediction of who jack was?
There was a rumour that Jack was a sailor on shore leave from the nearby docks. Hence why they stopped so suddenly. He simply got back on another ship. Has anyone ever checked the ship’s manifests to see which name pops up more than once? Was there someone who rented a property in that area for only a few weeks?
Carl fazenbaun at least that's how I think it's spelt...
I watched a documentary about this saying that he could of got on a ship to America when the police were trying to find him and started killing there?
@@bernardgeorge9187 Ive heard a theory like that. Because i think shorty after the crimes in london similar murders started occuring in new Orleans.
I've heard about that. A German sailor, who they've tried to link to other ripper-type crimes in Brazil and America.
I doubt it. I don't think that such a person would have known the area well enough to be Jack. And if he's a sailor, it's unlikely that all of his killings would have happened in such a small area.
I saw the 2 pictures of Mary Jane Kelly and yea, her mother definitely would not recognise her. Not sure if there’s more photos but with just 2, it said all it needed.
Riveting story! Visually pleasing and not a dull moment!
As the doco "The Missing Evidence" pointed out, Lechmere was also the unlucky guy who just happened to be at the locations and times of every victim, two being killed on his only night off for the week when Jack had the time to chop them up. He was either the Ripper or walking bad luck. Also being a meat cart driver it would be common for him to wear a leather butcher's apron. So unlucky
What if that was part of jacks plan? To set him up like that?
@@xenomorph6807 pretty sure Jack didn't make him lie to the cops about his name and the fact that there was already a policeman on the scene.
@@studioseppuku9454 might just have been luck on his side, obviously we dont know who did what, but seeing how highly intelligent jack the ripper had to be to manage these murders in the way he did, it woudnt be to farfetched of an assumption.
@@studioseppuku9454 Maybe he wanted to report under a different name because the murders where happening on his route to work, so he wouldn't become the next victim. There are many thing to be factoring in.
A woman could have set him up. She whoever the lady was was Jack.
Add in that she didn't start bleeding out until after the bobby came up to the body is more incriminating. A neck wound that deep would have bled fast and pooled fast. That the first two men didn't see a pool is very incriminating. When I first heard the beginning story, I agreed with your assessment. Then when you added the final details of name hiding, profession, route and add in likely access to tools of the trade it seems very probable. It would be interesting to see if one could discover his obituary. Given his later years and the roughness of the neighborhood he may have passed thus ending the murder spree. If this were verified through an obituary or census, one might have an even more compelling case. Well done.
@rebelsmileygirl Well, if Lechmere was the killer, it's only the one man, not two men, who didn't see a pool of blood. Lechmere, of course, would have pretended not to see it.
@@johnstrawb3521 so true
Lechmere/Cross died in December 1920 at the age of 71. Based on the year & his age, I’d guess that he died from the 1919 flu pandemic, which actually started in 1918 and lasted well into 1921.
@@DneilB007 The average male life expectancy was 65 to 70 years. Could he then have retired or lost or passed his employ to someone younger thereby ending his spree and then fallen to death of said plague? The may never know? Of course all things being equal the case could still have been someone else interrupted who died of being run over by a carriage back in the day. That is the sad mystery behind this whole evil. 😕
They didn't see it because it was late at night, the streets were not illuminated as they are today.
When he said "so utterly inconspicuous that he's already appeared in this video" and did the whole video rewind thing for a second istg my mind went "IT WAS YOU WASNT IT" 😂😂
Agreed. Investigators should ALWAYS look into the person who "found" the body. Great job!
This is such a frustrating case. If you look into it at all you’ll walk away thinking 15 different people did it.
It’s not just three bodies that were on his route. Mary Jane Kelly’s abode was towards the northern most point of Lechmere’s delivery route, & the night she was murdered, he was on holiday. If he was the Ripper, that might explain why he spent so much time w/ her. He had all day & night to do what he wanted.
10 year (and one day) anniversary video, bros been puttin in work non stop for a decade what a legend
His first known victim. It's highly unlikely that Mary Ann Nichols, who's body was the one found by the 2 men at the start, was his first victim. It'd be very rare for any serial killer to start with that level of confidence, violence and surety. For that to have really been his first world be very different to the normal. Also not convinced the suggested last Mary Jane Kelly was really his last. 3 other bodies were found in the same-ish area and in fairly similar circumstances, they just weren't reported on and the police really played them down to try and make it seem like things had calmed down.
Martha Tabram is considered a Ripper victim now.
For sure, he would of had a history of violence against women.
@@rachelled6763 oh yeah. Unfortunately at the time violence against women either wasn't reported, taken that seriously by the police unless it was an unusual level of violence, it wasn't often even treated as a crime if it was a husband against his wife or someone respectable seeming, like they had a fairly decent job etc and he committed the violence against a prostitute or woman with a reputation, sometimes just the fact the lady was out in a pub without a male companion was enough for either the man to talk his way out of it, say blaming the lady for starting it or suggesting she was trying to rob him, etc so wasn't even recorded as a a crime let alone investigated, especially in areas like Whitechapel and as I said the man came across as respectable or even more wealthy, so even if he'd hit or even beaten a few women in public it might still not have been recorded or even remembered as especially unusual. Then there's the fact I think that Jack was probably fairly new to the area, I'd say there's a good chance of this being true due to the very fact were commenting about. He'd probably lived there for a bit but possibly not more than 6 to 9 mths as he obviously knew the area and felt comfortable there but his past criminal history probably wasn't known or more likely he had no criminal history in that area at all. I'd say there's a high chance that if he'd been caught and they'd traced back the places he'd been then they'd have found that murders had occurred in those places but that they hadn't been as violent but that there had been an escalation in violence over time, possibly a fairly quick one but either way yhea he'd have definitely started with violence against women and probably animals.
Some things never change.
Correct 👍🎯 Well said.
I love how this dude tell stories
Just wish he didnt use so many dumb clickbait titles for his videos
@@valtonen77 Blame youtube for that its just how the algorithm and shit works youtube wants clickbaity vidoes and will keep people on youtube watching videos, it's how you get the most views so it's what everyone does, I don't mind his clickbaity titles because his videos are usually good. The trash videos that have extreme clickbait and the ones that piss me off.
@@abacus7087 I just avoid any videos with clear clickbait titles even if they come from channels I watch
@@valtonen77 yet here you are lmao
He's not a dude, he's a man. You're a dude one sandwich away from fat.
There was a serial killer sailor who was executed in NYC a few years after the ripper slayings and he had said in his interrogation that he’d been in London at the time of said slayings. Edit: The man I was thinking of was Carl Feigenbaum. During his sailing days, any time the ship he served on made port, unsolved murders of various lower class women pop up in the record of that community. While he doesn’t 100% fit every detail in the accepted profile of Jack, I think he’s a very good candidate for being the ripper.
Do you know his name?
Yeah what’s his name
@@TheUltimateKeyboardWarrior I am not sure if the Night Watcher is thinking about the same as me, but there was aman who confessed in New York shortly before his execution, his name was Carl Feigenbaum. I only remember him being charged with and convicted for one murder. So maybe others has confessed as well or. Anyway, Feigenbaum confessed to being the Ripper.
@@noeloreilly9440 can only tag one. But yeah, you can check my comment for Miya.
@@noeloreilly9440 he was aparrently a quack with some strange habits by the name of tumbletee an believe his first name was Francis an police found some tickets/receipts of dates that he sailed from the states to England then returned to the states sometime later which coinsided with some of the murders but after reading much of the ripper over time I personally would have him 3rd on the suspects list.
The pictures of these crimes really put them into perspective, it's absolutely horrifying and gruesome and dark and gritty, the way he saws the meat of her thigh off to the bone, just sick.
The older a cold case gets the harder it becomes to solve with out alot of push back or "guess work" ilove your videos
I actually thought of Lechmere being the killer at the beginning, but that's just my storytelling senses kicking in 😂 I believe Jack was just a random guy that never appeared in this video. Real life's not a planned out novel, it doesn't usually come full circle
A well regarded British homicide detective looked into it with modern techniques and believes Lechmere is Jack. So much of his investigation adds up and Lechmere lied about his name to the police. It's Charles Cross, there is a brilliant doco on it.
@@studioseppuku9454 That sounds really interesting! I'll go check it out, thanks :)
come round full circle? that’s how most crime cases work - most of the time friends, family or witnesses were the murderers
@@circe2258 If you put it like that, true! It made more sense to me when I wrote that haha
Cause he was
i like the theory that jack the ripper was a policeman, which allowed him to easily dodge police since he knew the routes they took. but mary kelly's roommate is still the most compelling to me, the timeline and possible motive lines up too well for comfort and mary kelly's body was in such a more horrific shape than the others it looks like the work of a devil not a human.
I just said something to that effect but I meant one police detective actually. I still say it's Sherlock Holmes
@@kris4571 That would be great if Sherlock Holmes wasn't a character from a book, instead of a real person.
There is a short story exactly like that.
@@kris4571wasn't he lost to ripper tho ?
@@lindablue7494Sherlock Holmes is a real person. I've been to his flat in Baker street and sat in his chair! I paid £5 admission. 😃
I thought it could be a) the first person on the scene or b) the first officer on scene (since no one noticed blood before that or c) someone who was connected to 1 victim, but killed the others to disguise the motive and therefore their identity
Love you videos.. My son and I use a number of them as part of our home ed
I was raised by a monster and it's uncanny how many people would not recognize one if they met one. They will seem the most jovial, well rounded, nice people. If they're successful monsters, you will never... ever see them coming until it's too late.
No you weren’t, don’t spend your 44 likes all at once 🙄
@@nathancarr5437 weird thing to be jealous about. I didn't enjoy it. Maybe you would've.
@@heathertaylor8904 trust me someone who was raised by a monster wouldn't be acting and talking the way u are
@@heathertaylor8904 ur probably just spoiled or sum
@@cheekybastard1423 so, in your esteemed opinion, is it that I use big words? I'm curious. It's always entertaining to hear a strangers reasoning on why your life experiences couldn't have happened. Interested to hear your take on my life. Take your time.
How did you make this over-told mystery, which I know a lot about, still interesting? Everyone, or most, knows the Jack the Ripper case, but you give more interest and wonder to it. That goes for all your videos btw. Well done. Liked. :)
The video LEMINO did a while back is awesome, thoroughly recommend it.
While I think most people would probably know about the Ripper, the amount of people “shocked” about the Dahmer series was mind blowing, so I’m glad these are still being made.
sorry, I have a question Have you ever seen the images he mentioned about the last woman? And if yes, how much are they horrible? They are totally out of what someone can handle seeing or more like the KZhead or Netflix 18+ mark?
@@jackmorass TRIGGER WARNING TO ANY OTHER READERS: LOOK UP THE PHOTO AT YOUR OWN RISK. I did get curious and I did look up the crime photo. It is incredibly gruesome and tragic. I could never comprehend how someone could do that to another human being. I hope that answers your question. :)
@@jordanalberts3898 thanks I think I won't look.
I've seen the pictures and read the post mortem report. It is so grisly you can barely make out what you are looking at. Only things you can recognize is her hair, forearms and legs.
Interesting theory about the last guy you talked about. People still wonder how the bastard got away with one of the murders, which was near an entrance to a masonic lodge, with people present in it that night.
I think the key thing is he quit while he was ahead. They had so many suspects they were bound to have been closing in on him.
You don’t just stop after killing 5 people, most likely he was incarcerated, died or moved away and continued elsewhere
Yea, even if he wasn’t a suspect he knew he would’ve most likely have been caught or spotlighted if he kept it up
"the most dangerous of serial killers aren't the strongest but the smartest"
Moved back to America
How does quantity of suspects necessarily help them?? They are more than likely talking to people who have nothing to do with the murders and be getting nowhere.
I would suggest the book, "The Five: the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper" by Hallie Rubenhold. Her in depth research dispels many of the assumptions about the victims(only one had been known to be a sex worker). There is a lot of fascinating information about the lives of women living in poverty in Victorian England.
Thanks for the reading suggestion .🙂
Yes, highly recommended. There's a lot of Victorian prejudice still alive and well in this case.
Brilliant book!
@Fairfax Not sure why you would say that, she details her research extensively. Please read it before you make ridiculous statements.
@Fairfax She's mistaken about the victims not being prostitutes. It has been well-documented that they were.
Watching you, sir, is like a tall glass of water. I drank every drop and, as you can tell, am still teensy but thirsty. You are gorgeously entertaining my friend.
This was really superb!
The most interesting (if not tragic) thing about Jack the Ripper isn't the victims or the one responsible for them. It is the mythological boogie man that the media, people, and historians/ ripperologists had created. Jack the Ripper as a Victorian "phantom" is more akin to Spring Heel Jack, and other tales. The man who did these murders is lost to time no matter how many suspects are made, but the legend of the monster that represents them all lives on today.
Damn.....
Sightings of the spring-heeled jack date back to 1837. Most people think that is why this serial killer was named Jack.
It is intriguing aswell as tragic. Like the titanic that sunk and claimed hundreds of lives we still enjoy trying to solve it and consuming Media about it because it's so interesting WW2 and any war are being enjoyed in videogames. It's interesting I remember hearing someone say "a story without tragedy nor hardships isn't a story, the more tragic one's story is the more interesting it becomes" Morbid as hell but correct.
Hmmmmm damn…
The night of the Double Event was Letchmere's night off and the two victim that night were the only ones not conceivably on his route to work. However, his mother and sister lived close to Berner Street where Liz Stride was killed, so he could have been returning from a visit to them.
And failing to mutilate Stride, he would have known where to find prostitutes. St Botolphs. Lechmere passed by there on his old route to work.
Along with hundreds of other people....
Don't drink the Kool aid.
That From Hell letter looks friggin scary as shit
Thanks for the hands-down, BEST video on Jack. I’ve also read books that suggest a physician and an artist who had mutilated genitals. It’s a shame more DNA/forensic work cannot be done.
I have 4 different beliefs about who Jack the Ripper was. 1. Charles Allan Lechmere, mostly due to him being there within minutes after Mary Ann Nichols was murdered, didn't want to move the body, gave the police an alias and his path to work would encounter the victims. 2. James Kelly, for anyone who seen "Jack the Ripper In America." Kelly killed his wife. Escaped from Broadmoor Asylum. An age regressed photo looks similar to a police composite sketch. When he returned to Broadmoor as an old man, claims that he went on a warpath. 3. Its possible that all 5 victims were by different men. From the descriptions of the men, that the victims were last seen with moments before they were found dead. Witnesses gave different descriptions. Either from different angles and distances in passing, the witnesses saw something different. Or they saw different men. 4. Unknown man.
Number 4 is a bold one 🤭
@@JohnDoe-zw8vx I'm hoping it's not 4., my bets are on Kelly or Lechmere. But I have to be realistic, because I have heard arguments against Kelly and Lechmere. It would be something, if it was 3 and it was both Lechmere and Kelly who committed the crimes.
@@JohnDoe-zw8vx I take it that's a joke? I mean I think it was Latchmere
I don't think it's number 3 the pattern seems to indicate a serial killer the pattern is too similar as is the area
@@michaelstone5298 I agree with you, but I'm going to play devil's advocate and say it could have been a group, maybe harvesting organs or something.
When I was a kid there was a serial killer in my home town. Turned out it was my middle school janitor. Your closing remarks really hit home. Look up Kendall Francois.
That's the worst thing about monsters... as well as the best thing about saints... they are humans living among other humans.
😮😳
After seeing constant docs about the ripper, I truly believe he was an rich gentlemen with a demented hobby.
The king of hand gesturing.
As tragic as it is that the killer was never identified and brought to justice, I am sure that if he had been, the mystique and legendary status of the case would be significantly diminished today.
So true!
Is that such a bad thing?
Nah, it'd be amplified. Do you not remember how all these serial killer documentaries are stupid popular?
@@Siphlex exactly! A serial killer doesn't deserve any attention from anyone but the police, in my opinion. I wonder if the murderer could stay out of sight partially because of a worse police department during his time🤔, hope so...
Its not scary anymore . He is dead .
The first murder reminds me a lot of the Redditch Car Park Murder, where some shoppers returning to their car came across a good samaritan nursing a woman who had been stabbed multiple times. The good samaritan (name Stuart Hopkins) was heralded as a fine young man for nursing this unfortunate lady in her final moments. He even appeared on TV. Some days later the police made an arrest after finding the knife used in the murder (purchased minutes before in the shopping centre) after it had been kicked into the gap between two of the levels of the car park. Presumably because the murderer heard people coming. The murderer turned out to be Hopkins, of course.
That was a single murder, not 5. Not a shred of evidence that Lechmere was near any of the other murder scenes and his delivery job would interfere with some timelines.
@@coxscorner his point is that the person who wasn’t suspected was the person who originally found the body/“helped” the victim, there’s a lot of murderers and serial killers who stick around and report the body to cover up the fact it was them
I think your explanation on who you think Jack the ripper actually makes more sense than the other suspects
There's a possibility that lechmere knew that the woman was dead and didn't want to move her because the fact that he might be suspected as being a murderer. That's why he decided to lie about his identity. We don't know if the other guy here to struggle to see if she was actually murdered by him. You would have heard some sort of a squeal and sound of feet being scuffling to the ground.
Even today, murders done by complete strangers with no ties to the victim are the hardest crimes to solve.
Theory is a spacefaring race known as the Vorlons captured him and showed him the error of his ways. Given what is almost immortality "jack" was named Sebastian and became an Inquisitor in service to the Vorlons.
"May your choices have better results than mine. Remembered, not as a messenger, remembered not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero, not even as Sebastian. Remembered only .. as Jack."
HH Holmes has also been suspected. His known alias' at the time were recorded on a ship log going to London before the Whitechapel murders, and after the murders stopped, another known alias returned to the USA from London. It is suspected he went to London to "practice" before doing his "work" in the USA
“A woman had been murdered by Jack the Ripper” “Now I love food!”
Thank God for Jack the ripper then. If it wasn't for him we wouldn't have taste buds.
the amount of research and work you put into your videos really shows Great content as allways..
Thanks for the final revelation.
11:10 u r the funniest sarcastic pomm i love it!
I watched a documentary that said two of the murder victims were next to Leichmeirs mothers house, who he was close to and visited often.
I read that he had also fallen out with his mother right before the murders started and made up with her right after they ended. Also that they had a bit of a dysfunctional relationship, so I think this is what fueled the killing spree. And why there was no sexual component to the murders, as well as why he went for matronly aged women and seemed to target their wombs.
And the times and days of the murders matched up to when he usually visited his mother's, his route to work, and I think there was a third house he visited which matched time & date of when he would have visited.
@@-xirx- Yes, and I think there were only two that weren’t killed along his route to work and within his working hours, and they were the two that were killed near his mom’s house when he would normally have been visiting. I haven’t heard of the 3rd house?
@@-xirx- in hindsight, I think I basically just repeated what you said, just less efficiently. :)
After watching 'I'll be gone in the dark' about the golden state killer, who turned out to be a cop and was never a suspect. I kind of wonder the same about Jack The Ripper. Cops probably never would have imagined it'd be one of their own (they never do huh? Hubris) and wouldn't have kept a lot of things confidential so the ripper may have been aware how the case was progressing.
Either died , was in prison for other crimes or was too ill maybe in hospital , all seem abvious scenarios. A less likely scenario is he moved away but then you would have to find similar crimes elsewhere
You just solved the ripper mystery in the first minute. The blood wasn't seen by Paul and Lechmere because it wasn't there yet. She had just been killed when Paul arrived and there was noone else there apart from Lechmere.
I always assumed that Jack the Ripper was a doctor or at least skilled enough to remove certain parts of the body like what the autopsy of some of the victims showed.
been watching this dude for so many years, but his wink at the end still gets to me
Same 😂 i always wink back hhhhh
Random pop in as this was in my homepage, I read on Wikipedia a relative of H.H.Holmes linking him to the Jack the Ripper murders from his travelling documents during the same time. Unfortunately we’ll never know because Holmes was caught and sentenced to death.
I was in Kathmandu, Nepal and even in the city center, once you leave the busy street, it’s pitch dark in the small street. If someone was laying down on the street, it would be hard to see. I assume London was like that in late 1800s.
Yes, I'd say you're right that Lechmere/Cross is a likely candidate. In another video "The Missing Evidence: Jack the Ripper," Lechmere later encountered a constable and told him about the murdered woman, and that another constable was there already. But that was a lie. By pure chance, another constable had just found the body; this covered the lie when the other constable arrived at the scene. But I think crime historian Donald Rumblelow, author of "The Complete Jack the Ripper," said it best. It's the End of Time when all things will be known. The ripperlogists will ask "Who was Jack the Ripper?" The Ripper will step forward and say his names. The experts will look at each other and say, "Who?"
I saw that video as well but they never showed any evidence that he lied about that so it's just hearsay although I'd say either him or Maybrick are my 2 top suspects. Also on Google it says Lechmere AKA Charles Cross died in 1920, ages after the murders so why is there no evidence leading to more murders after the first lot? If he changed locations why have we not found those logs and discovered more murders? I feel like if anything there's more concrete evidence supporting Maybrick over this guy when you start trying to add things up but the real answer to all of this sadly is just: we will never know.
I think jack just moved somewhere else that’s what I would do
Lechmere might not have lied about knowing another Bobbie/constable was already at the scene. If he did it, he might’ve waited to see the other man return to the scene with a constable, and saw the other constable approach, and in any case, he counted on that happening; if he was the ripper he knew the police routes. In any case, he expected the first witness to return with help for the woman (believing she was drunk). Having second thoughts about whether the man who found him with the body could later identify him, would have led him to approach the other officer. This way, he wouldn’t appear to be ducking the police and, seem as if he’d done exactly what he told the man who caught him - that he went for help. On the other hand, he might’ve said that there was another officer there simply because he assumed there would be, since the other man said that he would find one and he expected that would have happened by the time he did.
You all should check out LEMMiNO and his video on Jack the Ripper. He did such an amazing deep dive and literally covers every murder and shows a map of where all the victims were placed/left. His voice is so calming too, even when talking about the craziest stuff. Another good video of LEMMiNO is the D.B. Cooper case. We may now know both of the historical criminals.
Then my friend, you believe it is H.H. Holmes. A man from America who was also a serial killer who conveniantly lived in London for the time of the Ripper murders
Thoughty2 was one of the first of these kinds of historical/storyteller channels that I came across when getting into YT about a decade or so ago. Amazing to think he's still churning out fresh and original content like this all these years later. As far as The Ripper goes, my theory has always been the one at 23:37 - the killer is someone who's probably never even been named as a suspect and whose identity is lost to history.
Prolly a cop or several of them who made it up as an excuse for a boys night out from home....or a boys night out without getting caught
I was thinking the same thing, it was a cop. Back then no one would’ve suspected it. Hell cops nowadays are and have been arrested for crimes. I find it coincidental that records were lost in a fire, 🤔. Whoever it was got away with it .
22:14 I actually think you might be right... cause it is usually the most obvious ones..and he was literally the first person next to the first dead body.. which made him avoid suspicion, since the police had considered him to be merely a witness..
After watching most of the House of Lechmere channel, I think its pretty conclusive Lechmere he was jack the ripper. Also, the map at 21:50 needs to show that Lechmeres mums house was also at the bottom right, and he moved home, and both houses of his were in that triangle.
my only question then is - why did he stop?
Been watching (Subbed) to Thoughty2 for as long as I could remember watching KZhead. I'm happy to see you're success right in front of my eyes it inspires me as an artists so thank you for all the laughs and good memories and more.