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A picture of three Ripper suspects.

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Unlike other potential victims, Elizabeth Stride was found in a high-traffic area at a busy time; she had her throat cut but wasn't eviscerated. She was seen arguing with a man minutes before her death. Was she a Ripper victim?

Yes.

No.

Unsure.

Voting ended onJan 16, 2025

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Ripper Suspect of the Week

Was he the Ripper?

Yes

No

Maybe

I don't know

Voting ended onNov 9, 2024

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Pick one who you think might NOT be a Ripper victim.

Polly Nichols

Annie Chapman

Elizabeth Stride

Catherine Eddowes

Mary Jane Kelly

They're all Ripper victims, that's why they're "canonical!"

Voting ended onNov 5, 2024

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An AI-generated portrait of Jack the Ripper, based on eyewitness testimony and an image of Aaron Kosminsky.

All this tells me is AI can't make a person who isn't sexy.

Top Ten New Jack the Ripper Theories

1. Sir Charles Warren was Jack the Ripper. That's why he was never caught.

2. Wynne Baxter and Francis Tumblety were the same person. Look at the outfits.

3. Victoria's husband Prince Albert faked his death so he could become Jack the Ripper.

4. Patricia Cornwell is on drugs.

5. Jack the Ripper was not Jack the Ripper, it was another man with the same name.

6. There wasn't one murderer, the crimes were similar due to an incredible coincidence.

7. Frederick Abberline looked nothing like Johnny Depp.

8. Mary Jane Kelly wasn't a Ripper victim, it was an extremely botched suicide.

9. Jack the Ripper wasn't Aaron Kosminski. It was a Jill the Ripper named Karen Osminsky.

10. Walter Sickert wasn't Jack the Ripper, he just happened to have Catherine Eddowes' kidney.

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marzipanandminutiae

wait some people are taking that whole Degas Was Jack The Ripper thing on TikTok seriously?

do they not realize that the set of people in 1888 who were:

Misogynistic

Somewhere between Paris and London

Interested in anatomy (we assume)

Possibly antisemitic although there's no actual proof that the Ripper wrote that graffito, apparently

SketchyTM

numbers in the millions probably? that's her entire argument in the video (plus some bullshit pseudo-science about how All Serial Killers Have X Brain Damage, which she claims Degas also had with zero evidence). you might as well pick a random man's name out of a hat. Degas is just famous and fits all those qualifications- it's not a hard profile to match

blamed-for-nothing

Degas now? Ripperologists seize on famous Victorians (or, in this case, Belle Époche-ians) because they're the people we know the most about. I think the chance that the Ripper was a celebrity approaches zero.