Later theories also note that a midwife would have knowledge of human anatomy, which was a possible clue mentioned earlier in this article. Mary Pearcey–was she Jack the Ripper? I don’t know about anyone else, but this picture certainly gives me the chills. The chief inspector surmised this was the female killer parading about in Mary Kelly’s clothes. And this, I remind you, was hours after the victim’s death. She said Kelly was wearing, “a dark shirt, velvet bodice, and maroon-coloured shawl.” Maxwell identified this as clothing she’d seen Kelly wear a handful of times before. Maxwell swore she saw Kelly outside the Britannia public house, stumbling about and severely drunk. However, even the chief inspector began to consider a female killer when a witness familiar with the victim, Caroline Maxwell, claimed that she saw the fifth victim, Mary Kelly, hours after she was murdered. Original investigators into the crime had four suspects, all of whom were male. Those samples revealed that those letters were likely sent by a woman!Īnd, this might not be so crazy. You know, those letters that captured the attention of newspapers and created quite a bit of fanfare? Those swabs were tested for a DNA profile, which revealed an interesting discovery. This indicates that Jack the Ripper had knowledge of human anatomy, which provides a clue as to his-or her-identity.īack in the early 2000’s, an Australian scientist took swabs from those letters sent to Scotland Yard and press outlets by Jack the Ripper. He slit the throats of his victims and mutilated their bodies, removing internal organs from at least three poor women. Jack the Ripper stalked the slums of Whitechapel, London for his victims-female prostitutes. However, quite possibly the strangest theory is that Jack the Ripper was a woman.īut, before I delve into the possibility of a female Ripper, allow me to give you a little background information on arguably the most famous serial killer in recorded history. Other theories are bit more far-fetched in their range of possible subjects, such as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Sir William Withey Gull, the physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria. The most plausible theories name ordinary civilians as possible suspects, such as Joseph Barnett, a fish porter, and George Hutchinson, an unemployed laborer. Many theories exist about the identity of Jack the Ripper. This post was originally published on Kat Devitt’s blog.
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