It doesn't feel the same with other foods. I can't explain it.
[She hears his remark and just goes 'hmm'...]
So, you'd subscribe to the "Jack the Ripper was a nobleman, or at least educated man" theory? Unlikely. All suspects you could possibly name were either sensationalized by the press at the time, had eveidence which were known forgeries, or could be proven to be nowhere near whitechapel. The closest to fulfilling that theory would be Montague John Druitt, but there's no evidence. The only circumstantial evidence was that the murders stopped around the time he committed suicide. But, many people commit suicide. And we can even identify Mr. Druitt's possible reason: he was an educator who had lost his job. That's a lot easier to believe it was coincidence, isn't it?
We'll never know for sure. The only possible clue would be the killer would have anatomical knowledge. There's a theory that he worked at a morgue, but that's just that, a theory.
Anyway, it was the 1800s. If you weren't rich or an aristocrat, no one cared who you were enough to put you in the history books. Any connection to other named persons is either built on stereotypes or outright class-ism. So, that's what we're stuck with... the real killer will just be in our imagination.
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Date: 2023-08-19 04:28 am (UTC)[She hears his remark and just goes 'hmm'...]
So, you'd subscribe to the "Jack the Ripper was a nobleman, or at least educated man" theory? Unlikely. All suspects you could possibly name were either sensationalized by the press at the time, had eveidence which were known forgeries, or could be proven to be nowhere near whitechapel. The closest to fulfilling that theory would be Montague John Druitt, but there's no evidence. The only circumstantial evidence was that the murders stopped around the time he committed suicide. But, many people commit suicide. And we can even identify Mr. Druitt's possible reason: he was an educator who had lost his job. That's a lot easier to believe it was coincidence, isn't it?
We'll never know for sure. The only possible clue would be the killer would have anatomical knowledge. There's a theory that he worked at a morgue, but that's just that, a theory.
Anyway, it was the 1800s. If you weren't rich or an aristocrat, no one cared who you were enough to put you in the history books. Any connection to other named persons is either built on stereotypes or outright class-ism. So, that's what we're stuck with... the real killer will just be in our imagination.
That in itself is sort of scary, isn't it?