Jack the Ripper
Seweryn Klosowski
Seweryn Klosowski (also known as George Chapman) was a Polish-born immigrant that moved to London in 1887 or 1888. He was a convicted murderer, who killed three of his wives (or, according to other sources, mistresses), all by poisoning.
He was not seriously considered a suspect in the Jack the Ripper investigation, although years later it was suggested that Inspector Frederick Abberline considered him a prime suspect or even was convinced that Klosowski was the Ripper.
Modern profiling could suggest that such a complete change of the modus operandi by a serial killer is very unlikely - the poisoning of a close one and gruesome slashing of a complete stranger would be a very strange mixture.
However, some of the modern geographical methods of tracing killers are pointing at Klosowski as the most likely suspect in the case because of the fact he lived in a specific part of the Whitechapel when the murders were taking place. On the other hand, there were no hard evidence that would point at Klosowski, other than Inspector Abberline was told by one of Klosowski’s wives that he had a habit of going out in the middle of the night for hours (which is open to a wide range of interpretations).
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@Logic
I dont know where did you get the idea that in Polish word "żyd" is pronounces anything like "juwet", it isnt - the first letter (ż) is pronounced like the last syllable of the word "prestige"
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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 couldnt be traced back to him if the looked like natural illnesses. Also, lets 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 its pronounced similar to "juwet" with the W having the V sound. They probably had the guy, just a classic case of not enough evidence.
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