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Originally posted by Versa
Originally posted by wcitizen
If they wanted to protect the 'informers' they could simply redact the name/names of the informer/informers.
Ripper researchers are pretty hot on uncovering stuff, I wouldn't like to bet that they couldn't find a name.
There's no evidence at all that 'royalty' was involved, you might as well say 'if there was evidence it was aliens'
We'd all love to see the files, but if there is any risk to people alive today then personally I can wait.
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
reply to post by Golithion
Maybe there are family members of Jack the ripper still around today, family members who would not want to be linked with a serial killer.
Originally posted by wcitizen
If the name does not appear in the documents they won't find it there. That's the only salient point.
Originally posted by wcitizenNot at all, there are many rumours that it was to do with an aristocrat or royalty - I've never heard a rumor about aliens.
Originally posted by riddle6
Seems to me that Scotland Yard is either hiding something (to protect someone/s or something) or they just want to keep the enigma going for tourism. I doubt finding out who Jack the Ripper officially was (if they even know) would do too much to impact the Ripper tourism industry, but you never know.
Originally posted by Versa
Originally posted by wcitizen
If the name does not appear in the documents they won't find it there. That's the only salient point.
not true... there are other ways of finding out who someone was, eg if for example the name blanked out was an Irishman committed to an asylum in January one would only have to search asylum records to find an Irishman committed in January that had worked/lived in Whitechapel in the Autumn of 1888... Your under estimating the powers of the people researching the ripper.
Originally posted by wcitizenNot at all, there are many rumours that it was to do with an aristocrat or royalty - I've never heard a rumor about aliens.
RUMOURS exactly, zero evidence... Anyone can start a rumour...
Originally posted by OhZone
A long time ago I read a theory that the Ripper was a woman.
Any ideas on that?
The reason they are giving has to do with informants.
So was there an informant that was royaly connected or otherwise important?
Was the important informant having an affair with the Ripper?
Removing organs is what is done in the cattle mutilations of these days.
So what is the significance of the organs removed?
Originally posted by lifeform11
reply to post by wcitizen
there were slaughter houses in the area, my personnal opinion is that it could of been somebody from there, somebody who killed on a daily basis and was skilled at it, felt powerful taking a life and watching it fade away, and decided to try his skills out on humans.
but the thing with the ripper case is that there are so many suspects and bits of evidence that it is almost impossible to be certain on anything.
however with this new information about not releasing files, i am leaning away from that now as it implys to me they are not protecting a person but a organisation/institution etc. if it were just a common slaughter house worker i am sure they would just release them.
On this day 123 years ago, Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim. But who was this serial killer? This new e-fit finally puts a face to Carl Feigenbaum, a key suspect from Germany.
“I have for years suffered from a singular disease which induces an all-absorbing passion, this passion manifests itself in a desire to kill and mutilate every woman who falls in my way, I am unable to control myself”
Convicted of murdering his landlady in Manhattan, Feigenbaum died in the electric chair in New York's Sing Sing prison in 1894. His lawyer suspected him of the Ripper murders too.