Who do you think Jack The Ripper was?

Question: Who do you think Jack The Ripper was!?

honestly i dunno!.!.!.there are just too many good suspects!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Some very ordinary guy with a bit of a problem - so ordinary now we would likely never know his identity!. (If modern cases like Denis Neilsen are anything to go by)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hi,

Since the Whitechapel murders of 1888, numerous suspects have been suggested (and supposedly proved) as being the infamous Jack the Ripper!.

The main suspects are as follows:

- Montague John Druitt
(committed suicide in 1888 while "of unsound mind" - ruled out by Inspector Frederick Abberline)
- George Chapman
(killed 3 of his wives - with poison - hanged in 1903)
- Aaron Kosminski
("had a great hatred of women, with strong homicidal tendencies" - but only 2 known indications of violent behaviour)
- Michael Ostrog
(Russian con man - in jail in France during the murders )
- Francis Tumblety
(quack doctor, connected to the deaths of some of his patients - alleged homosexual, in general male homosexual serial killers kill other men)

Other suggestions have included:

- Thomas Neill Cream
(last words - I am Jack the!.!.!. - in prison at time of murders)
- Lewis Carroll
(author of Alice in Wonderland - accusation based on anagrams)
- James Maybrick
(alleged author of the Ripper Diary - uncertain authenticity)
- Walter Sickert
(artist - in France at time of murders)
- Prince Albert Victor
(Queen Victoria's grandson - attending functions at time of murders)

Personally, I favour the theory that James Maybrick was the killer!.
He is linked to the crimes through the controversial Ripper diary and the pocket watch which has his initials & those of the 5 Ripper victims engraved in it!.
The 'facts' suggested to dismiss him as the killer are circumstantial (as are most 'facts' surrounding the case)!.
Although located in Liverpool, he had a mistress near Whitechapel which would explain his trips to London & also account for the police's difficulty in tracking down the culprit!.
Maybrick died from arsenic poisoning in 1889!. His wife Florence was convicted of his murder!.

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The chief suspect at the time was a man called Montague John Druitt!. He committed suicide not long after the last murder, after which it seems that the police did not bother much to do any more investigating!.

Theo Aronson, in 'Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld' says that he believes the police knew that Druitt was their man, but they chose to keep his possible identity as the Ripper quiet because he moved in the same illicit homosexual circles as Prince Eddy, elder son of the Prince of Wales, and if his connection to Druitt had come out it woul dhave been highly embarrassing for the royal family, and might have caused some kind of political crisis, given that Prince Eddy was, at that time, second in line to the throne after his father!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Who knows!? There were a million people in London at the time, or something like that!. Anyone of them could have been Jack the Ripper!.Www@QuestionHome@Com