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With my dad soon to retire from the Police force I've been bombarded
with his recounting various cases of murder, assault, rape, drug dealing.
But he's never been involved in a serial killer case.
I'm kind of glad because it's very rare that they actually get
caught. Not catching him would have driven dad nuts and, possibly, harmed
his reputation or career. Think about the sheer number of unsolved murders.
How many of those have been the work of as yet unknown serial killers? My
favourite is also an unidentified, never-captured and yet totally famous
murderer--and man was he sick!
Jack the Ripper was the first, in-the-papers-everyday serial butcher.
This whole project couldn't have come at a better time as I've just last
week watched again a feature length documentary about a journal that has
just surfaced out of the blue that could either be a rerun of the Hitler
Diaries or the categorical evidence of who the culprit was.
Jack was one majorly depraved bastard. In this documentary you saw
photos of the victims, some as they were found, some for some reason leant
against a wall. The scariest thing about Jack was the obvious signs that
this fella was very calculated and deliberate about his actions yet
seriously got a massive rush from slicing prostitutes to pieces.
One body had most of the surface flesh hacked to the bone and the
face was none existent. Another had deliberately carved shapes in her face.
All these murders took place between 1888 and 1889 and the cops didn't have
a clue who he was. We'll probably never know.
He called *himself* Jack the Ripper, which to me is a major clue.
The person this journal I mentioned is attributed to was called James
Maybrick - JA### ######CK. The Police thought Jack was either American or
British but a regular visitor to America. And lo, Maybrick had many
business interests in America. Maybrick was an abuser of arsenic and had
recently discovered that his wife was cheating--a reason for an unhinged
person to want to punish women. He regularly went to the doctors for
arsenic and other health reasons but no appointments clash with any murders.
Also, in the journal there are incredibly obscure facts, some of
which have only recently come to light about the murders and Maybrick,
details thrown in without fanfare or the smell of a forger showing off. The
language is perfect for the time and the handwriting has been judged to be
definitely that of a total psycho--something you can't fake apparently.
Even the ink is Victorian and for it to be faked the forger, apart from
having to be a phenomenal writer, an unprecedented genius at faking
handwriting and a top-notch researcher, would have to have very specialist
knowledge of Victorian inks!!
Yet still there are quite a few people who don't think it's genuine.
So we still don't KNOW who Jack was. He wrote letters, dropped clues at
murder scenes and yet still wasn't caught. Surely this is the ultimate in
serial killers, one to whom the others aspire. I mean, the ideal scenario
for most multiple murderers is that they get to kill, they get the notoriety
but they don't have to be tried and sent to prison for life or thrown in the
madhouse.
There's a lot more glamour associated with Jack than more recent
murderers because we all imagine these things happening in period clothing;
flouncy dresses and dapper top hats. The murderer was more than likely
middle class and we have no idea as to his background. The difference with
modern murderers is it is all heads in refrigerators and freaky S&M
fantasies. We know more about serial killers and their normally terrible
childhoods--years of sexual or physical abuse or tails of beheading the
next-door neighbour's cats. It all feels a bit too intimate and messy and
sordid to start thinking any of them are cool.
If you have killed, I hope you die painfully. If you end up killing
after reading this, please don't cite this article, I couldn't afford the
plane fare. Thanks.
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