Jack the Ripper
Francis Tumblety
Francis Tumblety, a con man pretending to be a doctor. He made money selling "Indian Herbs" in United States and Canada. He was considered to be a suspect in the investigation since he was a misogynist (misogyny - hatred of women), he especially despised prostitutes, and in past was connected to the death of one of his patients.
It was reported that he kept in his study a collection of uteruses preserved in jars, also while in London he tried to buy some more of those "exhibits". There was also the story story surrounding the night of double murder - landlady reported to the police that her lodger, an American who told her that he was a doctor, returned that night about 2am and his shirt had stains of blood on the sleeves. The description sounds like Tumblety, but the lodger moved out and there was no way to confirm identity of that person.
In 1865, Tumblety was arrested for complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but was released without charge. In 1888 he was in London, and was arrested on 7 November, apparently for engaging in homosexual act, which was illegal at the time. Awaiting trial, he fled to France and then to the United States. Since there were no clues that would link him to the Whitechapel murders he could not have been extradited back to England.
The personality of Tumblety does not seem to fit the profile of the Whitechapel murderer, f.e. he hated women, but also he was a homosexual and forensic experts are prone to assume that attacks of Jack the Ripper were sexually motivated. Also there are some doubts surrounding the appearance of Jack the Ripper - Tumblety was very tall and his appearance was very characteristic (with long moustache) and all the witnesses were talking about average looking man.
Can you solve a mystery like this one?
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@Logic
I don't know where did you get the idea that in Polish word "żyd" is pronounces anything like "juwet", it isn't - the first letter (ż) is pronounced like the last syllable of the word "prestige"
Polish Guy (15-08-2018 21:53:22)
Has anyone ever considered that he was a calculating man and changed his MO because the victims in his later killings could have been traced back to him more easily, which is how he was caught, and that he slashed the Whitechapel victims because he could get away with it. His personality and past behaviors toward his wife (and other women) would suggest that he was very capable of committing the crimes done by Jack the Ripper. It is also to my understanding that he had monetary motives with the later victims, so he had to make the deaths look natural for those purposes in addition to making sure the murders couldn't be traced back to him if the looked like natural illnesses. Also, let's say for arguments sake that the Goulston street graffiti was actually written by the Ripper. The message itself is largely indecipherable to anyone other than the killer. But, the most credible reports indicated that Jews was spelled "Juwes". This is interesting because if you listen to how the word Jews is pronounced by a person saying the word for Jews in Polish, you will see that it could be that the writing on the wall was just a poor English transliteration from the Polish word for Jews. In Polish the word for Jew is "zyd", but it's pronounced similar to "juwet" with the W having the V sound. They probably had the guy, just a classic case of not enough evidence.
Logic (15-08-2018 07:09:16)
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