Freemasonry nonsense


Just like the subsequent "From Hell" with Johny Depp there appears to be an obsession on this issue. Conspiracy theories always thrill ignorant masses. Pathetic.

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When the Royal Family/Masonic theory first came to into the spotlight in the mid 1970's, it was interesting to look at, for about five minutes. But, as too often happens, it got twisted into being the mainstream 'solution'.
I give it a bit of credit, mainly because it got people interested in the Ripper again.
But I would certainly like to see some films with a different theory.

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The first one "Jack the Ripper" from 1959/60 is not one with a masonic conspiracy etc approach - it predates that theory which really began to be spun in the 1970s. But the killer in the film is a totally fictional individual.
The rather good movie "A study in terror" (1965) which pits Holmes and Watson against the murderer, also has a fictional killer - not a royal or a doctor - but it is a chap from the "upper crust".

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This version has William Gull as the murderer, assisted by coachman John Netley, but there is no mention of the Freemasons or the Royal Conspiracy. Gull's motives are a lot simpler and crazier in this film.

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That's why I really like this one......while it has Gull as tye culprit it doesn't involve Freemasons or conspiracy....it's just a maniac acting on his delusions

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I have also toyed with the idea of the particular murder of Mary Kelly as the work of a copy cat. Either someone eerily fixated on Kelly herself, some who took the opportunity to kill when a notorious serial was active - or someone fixated on the Whitechapel murderer. But this theory askes for too much: not only managed Jack to disappear in thin air, leaving few traces. But a copy cat sharing this mixture of skill and luck?

There is only one way Jack the Ripper could do what he did, and that's to live anonymously in Whitechapel, know every ally and street, and being able to blend in the crowd as a nobody of interest. He must have laughed his head off while pretending to be outraged like all the others.

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