Entry 5-Most Likely to be Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

The best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media. The letter is widely believed to have been a hoax, and may have been written by a journalist in a deliberate attempt to heighten interest in the story. Other nicknames used for the killer at the time were "The Whitechapel Murderer" and "Leather Apron".

Criminal Profiling

1.    Surgeon doctor

2.    Mental illness

3.    Wealthy( upper class)

4.    A man

5.    Hate towards women(misogynistic)

6.    Local English man

The Canonicals Five

1.     Mary Ann Nichols

2.     Annie Chapman

3.     Elizabeth Stride

4.    Catherine Eddowes

5.     Mary Jane Kelly

In my point of view Thomas Neill Cream is the most likely to be Jack the Ripper because the features that he have suite the criminal profiling the most. The first thing is he is a doctor secretly specializing in abortion. Means that he had the skill of handling the knife and he knows human anatomy. The second one is he had a record of murdering his mistress’s husband then arrested and sentence to death on 15 November 1892. The killing of the canonical was around late August 1888 and end at early November 1888. So Thomas Neill Cream has insufficient time to kill those five victims. Donald Bell suggested that he could have bribed officials and left the prison before his official release. While, Sir Edward Marshall Hall suspected that his prison term may have been served by a look alike in his place. Furthermore, according to some sources, his last words were reported as being “I am Jack the....”,interpreted to mean Jack the Ripper. At that particular Jack was synonym with Jack the Ripper.

Dr. Thomas Neill Cream