I am doing my paper on Jack the Ripper. The beginning of it
is my profile of the type of person I think committed the crimes. The age I am
guessing the UnSub to be at, why I think he did it and the type of Signature he
had. Next I will be talking about the research I did and the people I looked
into. There are quite a few people who look good for the murders, but things
just didn’t quite add up right to me. Then I will be ending the paper with the
one person that really stood out to me as Jack the Ripper. I just feel a strong
connection to this guy being Jack.
Age: 25-35
IQ: 100-115
Occupation:{{ …Killer…}}
Gender: Male
Dress: Well dressed like he has money, but not well dressed enough
to grab any unwanted attention from those around him except the prostitute of
his choice.
Mode of Trans: Walking/horse Taxi
Location: Within 10-15 miles of the murders
Organized or DisOrganized: Very organized. He had plenty of
time with his victims to mutilate them and ritualistically place their body
parts around them. He was able to spend a long amount of time with his victims
and not get caught by anyone else that was walking the streets or riding in the
horse taxi.
Motive: Killing just to kill
Signature: Cutting of the throat, removing of the organs, disembowelment,
cutting of the body, ritualistically placing the organs and personal belongs
around the victim.
Victims: Emma Elizabeth Smith April 3 1888/ Martha Tabram
August 7, 1888/ Mary Ann Nichols August
31, 1988/ Annie Chapman September 8, 1888/ Elizabeth “Liz” Stride Septemer 30.
1988/Catherine Eddows September 30,
1988/Mary Kelly November 8, 1888/ Rose Mylett December 20, 1988/ Alice
McKenzie July, 17 1889/ Frances Coles February 13, 1891
The ones underlined, according to Jack the Ripper by Deborah O’Toole, are the ones positively linked
to Jack the Ripper, the non-underlined ones, have some of the same signature, but no
one has been able to tie them to Jack the Ripper without a doubt. So society,
in general, only pays attention to the conical five. All were prostitutes and
all were older women, except Mary. All were outside, except Mary. Mary was in
her 20s and was inside her sleeping room. Jack had more time with her than he
did with the other four. Liz Stride was not dehumanized quite to the extent as
the other women. Said to be because while Jack was killing her he was
interrupted or came close to being discovered, so less than 30 minutes after
leaving Liz he killed Catherine. I feel that he chose the Prostitutes because
he had issues with loose women or like the serial killers in the past few
decades.
Jack most likely had a bad childhood growing up with a
father who was likely not around and a mother who was around not much more than
his father was. He was a very smart boy and grew up being a very smart young
man. He probably had a steady job in a career field.
I have found in my
reading that he was said to be an Artist, a Free Mason, a Jewish Shoe Maker, a
Teacher, a Doctor, even rumored to be a Duke, I feel personally that he was a
mental patient. I have found the list including the names, along with a few
others on listverse.com.
The artist wasn’t even in the same country at the time of
the murders; the teacher had too much going for him until he lost his job. Yes
he did commit suicide around the same time as Mary Kelly’s murder, but that
does not tie the two together. He was just simply depressed after losing his
job. I don’t feel that is was the Duke either, yes I know that royalty can fall
for a commoner, but it just feels too wrong to me. It doesn’t fit or mesh well
enough for me to believe what I have read.
The artist, Walter, was a sick and twisted man, and he did
have pictures and paintings he made that fit with the crime scenes. I think he
had some sick and twisted obsession with Jack the Ripper and the murders, and
creating the art work made him feel connected to Jack in some way. I have no
doubt that he just saw the pictures in the paper or some other way and would depict
them in his own way. It does make sense that it could be him, but my readings
have shown me that he was not in the country during the murders.
I have read that there was a Duke that was having an affair
with one of the victims, and the murders resulted because someone in the Royal
Court found out about the affair, and knew how it could affect the Duke and
keep him from claiming the throne. One of the victims saw the Duke with the
mistress and told one of her friends. The murders started as a scare tactic to
keep the Mistress from trying to continue her affair with the Duke. It had no effect
with her, and she herself was murdered. If you ask me that just sounds a little
too fishy. It is too much work to cover up the affair to me, why not just kill
the prostitute he was having an affair with, why go through all that trouble to
kill that many of them. Even if the two that knew about it said anything, they
would have no proof that it happened and no one would believe them, so that was
a waste to kill them.
I haven’t read much about the Doctor, but there are
apparently people out there that believe he was a doctor, because of the way
the woman were mutilated. That someone had to have known where the organs were,
how to work a knife, and where to cut the body.
I have found information on a mental patient, James Kelly,
who few people have suspected of being Jack the Ripper. I am inclined to agree
with them, based on my readings. He was a very disturbed man. Born April 20,
1860 to a 15 year old single mother, James was given away shortly after birth.
While his mother is growing up and having a life away from him, James is being
raised by his Grandmother, whom he grows up knowing as his mom. He finds out
the year after his birth mom dies that the women he knew as his mother was
really his grandmother. He withdraws from his job, as an upholsterer, and moves
to New Brighton to learn to be a book keeper. A year later his Grandmother
dies. He has “relationships” with prostitutes for a while. He meets his future wife
in late 1881. They become very intimate and when she decides to give up her
virginity to him things start to change. He is unable to penetrate and feels
that something is wrong with her and she gave him a disease. Being afraid of
doctors he tries to treat himself. James and his wife marry in 1883. Mid-year
1883 James starts to become violent with his wife. He threatens her of being a
prostitute and given him a disease, he tackles her.
Thursday June 21st, 1883 Sarah comes home around
8 from work and goes back out to meet James. An hour later he comes home
without her, then goes back out returning with her twenty minutes later. Even
though they came home together Sarah went to her room and locked the door.
James gets so mad at her he breaks down the door and starts screaming at her.
He throws her on the floor and grabs a pen knife and stabs her in the neck. He
then burrows the knife deeper and deeper in her neck. When Sarah’s mom tried to
save her daughter James throws her across the room then runs away. Sarah was
then taken to the hospital and dies on Sunday the 24th. Friday August 17th 1883 James is
diagnosed insane and sent to Broadmoor.
James is very smart and knows exactly how to work his way
around what he wants. He learns to play the violin so he can get in the band.
All the while he and another inmate are making keys out of metal they find
around the asylum to mimic the guards’ keys to free themselves. January 23,
1888 James escapes from the asylum. He then spends four days walking to London.
He stays there for a week or so. He then walks to Liverpool in February 1888.
Next he escapes to Harwich and works on a passenger ship. Sometime before June
he goes back to London. January 1982 he buys passage on the Zaandam to New
York. January 27th 1896 he turns himself in in New Orleans. By March
he is sent back to England only to escape again. In 1907 Broadmoor finally
officially discharges him. 1927, twenty years later, James shows up on the
steps of Broadmoor. He wants to readmit himself. While there he admits to
everything he did the entire time he was out of the asylum. Including the Jack
the Ripper murders. September 17, 1929 James Kelly dies.
After reading all of this on James, I must say I really like
him for the murders. He fits the profile to me. He had a bad unstable life
growing up with some mental problems. He had a professional job as an
upholsterer growing up as well, which mean he was strong and knowledgeable of
knives and had the strength to cut through things in one quick swipe. He messed
with prostitutes before finding a wife and getting married, who after being
unable to have sex with her begens to yell and become abusive. He felt her to
be just like the prostitutes from his passed and accused her of giving him a
venereal disease. He snapped, he got so mad at her he killed her. He then
escaped from an asylum and while traveling around Europe he killed prostitutes,
continuing on what he had done with his wife. They started out just normal
killing then escalated to ritualistically placing the body parts. And while in
America he continued with the killing till it got to be too much and he turned
himself in. After getting back to Europe and seeing that the police were not
there to receive him he disappeared for twenty more years. Upon that returning
to Broadmoor and giving himself up completely. It just clicks with me, feels
right. I strongly feel that James Kelly is Jack the Ripper.
In my conclusion I know that it is hard to figure out
exactly who Jack is due to the fact that it has been over 100 years since his
murders. I have read and looked into many people, yet there is something about
Kelly that really sticks with me and makes me feel like it was him. Kelly’s
mind is beautifully twisted. He grew up in a very confusing and messed up
childhood and its only a matter of time before he’d snap.
References
Jack the Ripper: Deborah
O’Toole
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| Jack the Ripper sketch from evidence James Kelly when he was younger |
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