We have seen it fall into the Royal family, famous artists, police officers, skilled surgeons, sailors, authors, and even supernatural happenings were to blame for some of the most horrific mutilations and killings of women the UK had ever seen.
Personally, I own LOTS of books on this subject and I find it very interesting; so many... if I put them all together it looks a little weird (so I don't.)
I have done the tourist walks in London and my very own Whitechapel and Shoreditch search tracing the cobbled alleys and footsteps these women once trod to their untimely and horrific deaths.
Within every incarnation of the story we are to believe that the Ripper took out body parts, mainly the kidneys and uterus of his victims with surgical skill and precision within the space of around 15 minuites… nothing has ever suggested otherwise.
That is until now.
Trevor Marriott is a former homicide detective here in England and he posits that Jack the Ripper was a German sailor from Karlsruhe.
He says he has used modern policing methods to overturn many of the old assumptions about the Ripper murders and gathered up much evidence that points to sailor Carl Feigenbaum, who was eventually convicted and executed for murdering Juliana Hoffmann in New York in 1894.
Marriot says;
“There is a case for suggesting he might have been the first trans-continental serial killer,”
Feigenbaum committed similar crimes in Germany and one in New York City, which he was later convicted of, it is incredibly fascinating and would make for a pretty riveting movie…
By combing over the hand written letters, police notes, dockland certificates between the UK, US and Germany he put together a pretty convincing theory.
It knocks down the facts that supported some of the alleged known things about who the ripper was thought to be.
Though the stories of the Royals, artists, elephant men, authors with sex addictions and nutty surgeons are a great read!!
I was quite happily to believe it could possibly have been James Maybrick as copycat attacks seemed to follow his travels to Liverpool and Manchester as well as having that heavy dockland presence to cover his tracks.
But here Trevor Marriot knocks it out of the ball park with his book.
There is no stone left unturned and what is even stranger he has pieced together a police description and drawings of what we could now know as the face of Jack The Ripper.
His forensic journey to darkest alleys of deprived Victorian London is sure an interesting one and a must read for anyone into ripperology, true crime or even a jumping on point to what has baffled many for over a 100 years.
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