Jack the Ripper murder mystery 'solved': Killer. - mirror.
Another factor that hurt the chances of catching Jack the Ripper was the provincial attitude of English society. No one was willing to consider the possibility that Jack the Ripper, butcher of women and the monster of Whitechapel, could be a normal Englishman. With few exceptions, and against advice, attention was forced away from those who.He said: “I’ve got the only piece of forensic evidence in the whole history of the case. I’ve spent 14 years working on it, and we have definitively solved the mystery of who Jack the Ripper.Political reformers used the Ripper in arguments and policemen struggled with the limited techniques of the time. Indeed, the Ripper case remained high profile enough for many of the police involved to write private accounts years later. However, it was the media who made 'Jack the Ripper'.
The infamy of the Whitechapel murders means that there are few names more instantly recognisable than that of Jack the Ripper. 'Jack the Ripper' is a fictional character, complemented by the popularised gothic literature at the time and best accompanied by characters such as Dracula, Sweeney Todd and Jekyll and Hyde (Warwick and Willis, 2006.The specific identity of Jack the Ripper is something that I think and many have come to accept as nearly impossible to figure out. The closest experts have come to knowing about the killer is that he was a working class individual and would have dressed like one unlike the stereotypes and stories.
Incidentally, at that time, Mark Andrews was writing a fiction title, The Return of Jack the Ripper (1977), which also put forward the same idea. Paley produced an article on his research in True Crime magazine in 1982. Paul Harrison, a former Northampton police officer, took up the idea for his 1991 book, Jack the Ripper: The Mystery Solved.
