What if Jack the Ripper was caught?

Question

Im soo intrigued with Jack the Ripper i think im obsessed but nobody has ever spoke about if he/she had actually been caught. What would happen to him/her?? Do you think he would have been hanged or what?

Answer 1

You cannot catch what never existed. It was nothing new in London for prostitutes to be murdered, so put together a few of the worst cases, and  gave the fictional character a name. The prostitutes then impose a curfew on themselves, the murders' keep of the streets and make policing easier through fear.

When publicity becomes too great,  pull the plug and Jack the Ripper is gone as quick as he arrived. Never to return, but who knows?

Answer 2

He was supposed to be caught. Farfetched as it seems, some experts believe the Ripper was none other than the queen's grandson Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (who was the son of future king Edward VII). "Prince Eddy," as he was called, seems ill-cast in the role of the savage and calculating Ripper. His contemporaries described him as "languid," "listless and vacant," and so forth; his own father considered him hopelessly stupid. According to court circulars, he was in Scotland when two of the murders were committed.

So why is Prince Eddy so often mentioned in connection with Jack the Ripper? Could the real Ripper have been someone -- or several someones -- close to the prince?

In his book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution, author Stephen Knight claimed that a royal physician, Sir William Gull, and two accomplices committed the Ripper crimes in order to protect the royal family. It all supposedly started when Prince Eddy's mother asked a well-known artist, Walter Sickert, to act as a mentor to her sensitive son. Through Sickert, Eddy met a Catholic shopgirl named Annie Elizabeth Crook. Eddy and Annie fell in love, had a child, and secretly married.

Unfortunately for the young lovers, the queen's ministers got wind of the affair. Fearing a scandal that would bring down the monarchy, they had Annie arrested, declared insane, and confined to asylums for the rest of her life. A more suitable marriage was arranged for the compliant Prince Eddy, but he died (or, according to some accounts, was murdered) before it could take place.

Eddy and Annie's daughter, Alice, ended up in the care of Sickert's friend Marie Kelly. Foolishly, Kelly and several female friends attempted to use their knowledge of Eddy's marriage to Crook to blackmail someone in the government. Prince Eddy's father was a Freemason, as was William Gull, and the Masons protected their own. Gull and his two accomplices systematically hunted down and killed Kelly and her partners in the blackmail plot; high-ranking Freemasons assisted in making the murders appear to be the random work of a lone madman; and the legend of Jack the Ripper was born.

Answer 3

He would definitely have been hanged under the British legal system at that time, not placed in an asylum. The hanging would have been in the grounds of the prison (public hangings no longer took place by that time) where they would also have buried him.

Answer 4

HE WAS

Answer 5

he would have been ushered off to an asylum  -after all he was royalty so they couldn`t hang him publicly or privately

Answer 6

you are a little gory , aren't you.

Answer 7

He was never caught and will never be. As his crimes were committed in 1888, the probability that he is alive is 0%.

Answer 8

It depends on who he was. Most likely he would have hanged but if he were royalty like some suggested it is hard to say.

Answer 9

Jack the Ripper was a time traveller who ended his days under a London bus in the 21st Century!

Answer 10

He would be hanged. What else would they do with a man like that?

However, we're speaking like it was definitely one culprit, which it may not have been.

And we're assuming they would catch the right man.

Answer 11

yes he would have been hung undoubtedly

I thought a relative of mine could have been the ripper but cant get anyone interested- he was intelligent -lived in the road where a torso was found and many other similarities

Answer 12

if he was then the UK (monarchy) would have been in some deep sh*t!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 13

Jack the Ripper is very over-rated H.H. Holmes is a far better (or worse) serial killer, that almost never gets mentioned.

Answer 14

hanging was the main resalt of murder in England at the time, so you would have to assune he would have been hung, but the question is moot cause he was never caught, at least for those crimes. If he had been there is a chance you would never have heard of him.

Answer 15

He would have hanged for murder. The latest theory is that he died in a mental asylum in the 1930s.

He would have been hanged in a place of legal execution, i.e. the prison.

Answer 16

No . Lots of tales told . Excellant new book just out which is well written Jack the Ripper & the East End ( Chatto & Windus : 2008) by Alex Werner A real social history and explains a lot about the area and why the Ripper murders happened there .

Answer 17

In 1886 had he been caught he would have been hung or hanged, don't know which. Today 2008 he would probably have been sentenced to 2 weeks in the Bahamas for all the stress he would be under.

Answer 18

If Jack the Ripper were caught, he'd be terribly old now.

And, I believe the death penalty in the U.K. was outlawed around 1964, he'd probably be put in a secured old folks home.

Answer 19

He certainly would have been executed for his crimes, there should be little doubt about that. Most likely it would have been hanging.

Answer 20

If he, Jack the ripper, (James Malbrooke), (not 100% sure if I spelt his surname 100%correct),  was Caught, then there will no longer be a mystery, about him...

But on the other hand if he was Caught, and found guilty then he surely would have been hanged...

For the record he stopped,  because his wife found out he did all those grousome murders, and she stabbed him to death, and then herself was arrested, trailed for his murder, and then hanged,  well that's my therory, from what I know about the stories about Jack the Ripper...

Answer 21

he would have been hanged presuming nobody got him first and he was mostly very lucky