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Jack the Ripper


Jack the Ripper had 5 canonical victims, which people generally accept to have been killed by him.

There is some debate as to whether the third victim, Elizabeth Stride was killed by Jack or someone else since she wasn't as badly mutilated as the other 4 victims. This got me thinking: what if all those 5 women were killed by a different person? If this was true, which it probably isn't, would you say there were 5 Jack the Rippers, no Jack the Rippers or would you pick one of them and call them the official Jack the Ripper?

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Hard to believe that there were 5 different murderers operating in that small part of London with such an unusual and brutal MO.

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I did a Jack the Ripper walking tour in the evening and it was really fascinating to walk along the old streets. Much of the area still looks the way it did in the 1880's. I think it had to be the same person who committed the murders.

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Well there were 5 different human bodies that did the killings, but each of them were under control of a single alien entity, so I suppose that both of your first two arguments could be seen as valid.

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Woah...

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I think Nancy Pelosi did it. She seems to be good a "ripping" things up and seems to take joy in it. 🔪

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LOL!

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What if Jack was a prostitute woman who was pissed at her collegues about something.

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Or a pie shop owner, who couldn't afford to buy enough meat...

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That works too :-D

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There was one killer.

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Probably not.

You have to have great passion to be a serial killer. By that I mean a burning desire, especially if you're doing something gross to people and it's a type of person most have sympathy towards. Most males do not want to hurt women. There are a lot who might what to kill women, but not a lot who want to sit there and play around cutting a woman up.

That is something you need to have a great deal of interest in and get a thrill from.

So, more than even one at a time in a given time and place is a bit much.

Jack was a guy who did what he did because he hated women and wanted to cut them apart.

I have read lots of books about the history of psychology. There's a great one called Encyclopedia Sexualis by Kraft-Ebing, I think is the name. It was from Germany in the late 1800s and is a think book about all kinds of unusual sexual behavior and perversion. There's lots of stories about European serial killers in it and their motives once caught. So, Jack wasn't unusual.

It was very easy for serial killers to exist back then as communication was terrible and moving around was fairly easy. We probably have less now than back then.

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Maybe one copycat or something, but it seems unlikely there were more than.

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