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Questions about 'Jack the Ripper!'?

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I'm intrigued about the notorious Jack the Ripper, and his victims and have a few questions I would like to ask:

1) Why was Mary Ann Nichols nicknamed 'Polly?' (the websites i've been on don't go into detail)

2) Why was his victim Mary Jane Kelly so badly mutilated, compared to the other victims such as Elizabeth Stride who only had a scar on her throat?

3) Many claim the Ripper was a Dr. Gull, however police stated that whoever mutilated the body of Kelly, did not seem to have knowledge on surgery, than why were the wombs of these women oftem missing?

4) Lastly...What do you think motivated the Ripper? some say he was even a homesexual, but I personally don't believe this considering the sheer sadistic brutality he inflicted upon these women. So..who was he?...We may never know!

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  1. 1. Polly is a common nickname for Mary Ann. I have no idea why or where it came from but there it is.

    2. Privacy and time for sure but perhaps she also did something during the attack that fueled the brutality.

    3. This has been a source of debate for years. Some of the clues lead to the idea that the Ripper had surgical knowledge, while other clues point against it. Some even believe there was more than one killer. My personal opinion is that the killer may have had anatomical knowledge without it necessarily being surgical i.e. a butcher or student.

    4. Without knowing who the killer is we can never fully answer this. Certainly anger and power were involved.


  2. 1) Many "working girls" of London's East End would have a second name or nickname they would use, especially when encountering local "Bobbies" on their beat or if and when they were arrested for public drunkenness; this was quite usual as most of them were heavy drinkers - some of the Rippers victims, including Polly, were alcoholics. Catherine Eddowes, the Rippers confirmed fourth encounter, regularly gave her name as Kate Kelly - which she did upon her discharge from Bishopsgate police station after she had sobered up, walked off towards Houndsditch and within 30 minutes had met Jack...

    2) Mary Jane Kelly, the Rippers final victim, was savagely butchered because the killer had privacy. She was the only one killed indoors in her small room at 13 Millers Court, which allowed the murderer the opportunity to indulge himself with almost no chance of discovery. And indulge himself he did.

    Kelly may have lain undiscovered for longer were it not for the shop-boy of her landlord arriving the following morning to collect her rent which was in arrears.

    The reason why "Long Legged Liz" Stride was only found with her throat cut is because Jack was disturbed. Louis Diemshultz, the steward of the International Working Men's Educational Club in Berners Street and also a salesman in costume jewellery, led his pony and costermonger barrow into Berners Street at 1 am where the pony shied and wouldn't pull straight. Diemshultz walked around the right-hand side of his barrow to get to the front to see what was bothering the animal. He thought he heard movement and footsteps coming from the opposite side of his cart, but when he got to the front he discovered the body of Elizabeth Stride. Blood had barely congealed on her throat and she was still warm. The Ripper had come very close to being caught but disappeared into the dark, to meet up later that night with Eddowes.

    3)There are many possible reasons behind the disembowelling and it is true that a vast anatomical knowledge is not necessary to do it. Some serial killers like to keep trophies, others need a specific item to fulfill something else (such as the suspect "Dr" Robert Donston Stephenson a.k.a Roslyn D'Onston who conducted Black Magic ceremonies and satanism in which he used human organs) or it could be the ritual itself that is the ultimate goal as it is similar to the death that supposedly gets meeted out to a Mason who betrays his Lodge and Bretheren - intestines thrown over the left shoulder, sexual organs cut etc. Also one of Eddowes kidneys was included in the infamous "from h**l" letter to give it authenticity.

    Having William Gull involved can only mean that people have suspicion of a royal involvement - he being Queen Victoria's personal physician - which usually includes the syphillitic, and slowly going insane, Duke of Clarence and the lawyer M.J.Druitt.

    4) This one's an impossible one to answer with any real accuracy as there are many theories, such as the royal connection or that really it was "Jill" the Ripper. The suspects range from the famous - the artist Walter Sickert - to the infamous - the murderers George Chapman or Neil Cream (whose last words on the scaffold were "I AM JACK THE..."). Until the final files are released by Scotland Yard we are all left guessing.

  3. I can't answer the first three because I just don't know but the last one, a lot of people look for motivation but at the end of the day, not everyone sees the world in the same way. There are a few people out there that just do what they want because they feel like it. I mean Hitler wanted to kill the Jews and he did, Alexander wanted to conquer prety much the world and he practically did.

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