The Mystery of Jack the Ripper
The Police arrested many suspects.....but who was really guilty?
The terror that befell London's Whitechapel district in the Autumn
months of
1888 remains unparalleled in the annals of crime. Jack the Ripper, a
faceless
predator whose infamy and guile would be renowned and feared to this
day, has
become virtual folklore to the people of the East End. More than a
century has
passed since Jack the Ripper stalked the fog filled, cobbled streets
of London,
but still latter day detectives continue to speculate as to the
identity of the
notorious "Whitechapel Murderer". Only a few clues were ever unearthed
by the
bewildered Police Force of the 1880's, further whetting the appetites
of present
day theorists in their quest for the "Mysterious Monster". At the time
of the
murders, detectives had never before experienced the apparently
motiveless
brutality of the world's first serial killer. The increasingly
frustrated Police
Force, pressured by an angry public and QUEEN VICTORIA herself, were
to arrest
several suspects on flimsy evidence, only to have these lowly
scapegoats
committed to,lunatic asylums, in a pathetic attempt to rid the streets
of the
dark assailant. No-one was above suspicion...SIR CHARLES WARREN, Chief
of
Metropolitan Police, was to be suspected of his involvement in a
"cover up" and
even Queen Victoria's own grandson PRINCE EDWARD, was at one stage
considered to
be a "Ripper Suspect". Although time has allowed hindsight, and
numerous
suspects have been presented, many are too ridiculous to be consider...
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...ect was that he feared he was going insane
like his
mother before him, In a suicide note Druitt wrote "Since Friday I felt
I was
going to be like Mother and the best thing for me was to die". The
note was
discovered on his person on 31st December 1888. He had drowned in the
River
Thames, his pockets full of stones. Druitt was seen alive on 3rd
December, 1888,
almost one month after the last Murder and 2 days after his dismissal
from his
teaching job in Blackheath. Druitt's death remains a mystery, as does
his
alleged connection with the Ripper Case. It is true , however, that
the Police
closed the Ripper file following Druitt's suicide. The dreadful
killings
perpetrated by "Jack The Ripper" were never repeated beyond Druitt's
death. Was
this coincidence or conjecture?
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