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It's possible though in my view unlikely that he was JTR.

In my top 5 for sure. But why stop?

nice idia he certainly had the quals std drCD he also worked as ships dr so when his ship sailed the murders stoped was he on smiths city line which is one of the catalists .Back to hand wrighting the two parts to this aspect is the 'ps'and 'r's jtrs ps were open mine are closed my rs are identicle I was once acused of being jtr fmor my 'hw'because of my ps im not guilty ive tryed to do jtrs ps i cant

i dont beleive in the hoax thiery this bloak jtr was a sypholytic he would of had sores on his face and body he was angry look what these whoors have done to me .Of course after c#5 his ship sailed to carry on elsewhere DrTumblty seems to standout Lechmere does not tyfn&ty

Frank is not high on the list because he falls into the same category as almost every other suspect. Good video as always Owen!

In the video I make the statement that I could find no books on this suspect. It's been brought to my attention that Richard Patterson has published a book- Jack the Ripper- Francis Thompson. www.amazon.com.au/Jack-Ripper-Works-Francis-Thompson/dp/1786934493 ( Amazon is one place you can get it )

Nope dont buy it.

Thanks for an overview on my suspect. My book is called Jack the Ripper the works of Francis Thompson. I can see you have done your research. Well done.

I don't think it was him but you did raise a good point about the mustache. I heard in another broadcast documentary that his mustache just peeled off when they were doing his autopsy or something. So it probably was fake. However I also heard that he asked some of the morgues for uteruses and he asked them to be put in a certain solution which was not a normal solution. I don't recall but that is how he got some of them I think he even asked in London or the White chapel area at some of the hospitals perhaps or insane asylums.

Earlier today, I watched a video from a cold case detective Ed Norris I think was his name. There were Ripper-style killings in New York and several other areas in US which seemed to follow Kelly's movements. Very compelling. The only thing truly missing is anatomical knowledge. But he was apparently very good with a knife from his upholstery work.

He was never a suspect and lived for another 19 years after Mary Kelly I'll stick with Jacob Levy

there is more stuff come to light there is a chap who lives in or near Rochester NY he has found a whole sieries of jtr type killingshes made avid of his findings which outline them conected to the railway lines he was geting off the train doing a jtr and makeing his escape estemate 20killings aproxNY state now that is interesting. ttfn&ty

Apparently hardly any of his works remain as the family caring for him who I believe acted as publisher burned most of his writings! Does leave a begging question there!!

Actually there is a book about Thompson as a suspect, called Francis Thompson: A Ripper Suspect, by Richard Patterson. Usually, famous people are ridiculous suspects, put forward by writers probably because it makes a good story and is a good way to sell a book. While Thompson isn't my top suspect, he's one of the few famous people, if not the only one, who can be put forward as a non-ridiculous suspect. He lived in the area, was the right age, was taken in by the Meynells just after the Kelly murder, which might explain why the murders stopped, had the anatomical skills needed, and seemed oddly interested in continuing his training dissecting corpses as long as possible. I've seen it argued that he was too skinny and weak to be able to easily and repeatedly overpower the victims. I don't know if I buy that or not. I'm not very interested in motive for these crimes, because I think the killer just enjoyed what a knife could do to a woman, and there's no telling who might have that motive. He was helped by a prostitute, whom he described as his savior, which one would think might temper his strong feelings against them.

Love your series. Well thought out and presented.

Hope you give a cratic of what you think at the end!

OMG, he checks way too many boxes. And, from what I understand, he was addicted to laudenum. This, imo, played a major role *IF* this guy is THE guy. I don't think any of these murders occur w/o laudenum involved. Hey, TY for this vid. It's wonderful. *I believe the experimental surgical method was known as the Virchow method. Author Richard Patterson has written a book on this guy. He's on youtube as well.

Gr8 Stuff, Owen....Francis Thompson has the background to be JTR, that's 4 sure...JTR wud have to be someone that has had a psychotic episode on the odd occasion (when the murders occurred😉) and not in control of their actions...There is a video on Thompson with Richard Jones on The JTR Tour Site, where he interviews Richard Patterson. Very interesting about Thompson's Conversion to Catholicism and Battle with Mental Health Issues...Thompson knew some of the Prostitutes as U said and may have just lost it, with them...JTR, IMHO had to be someone that lived in Whitechapel and was not from abroad or outside Whitechapel. If JTR didn't die or was confined to an Insane Asylum, he may have had an Epiphany after the Mary Kelly Murder and had no memory of what he had done...BTW, RDS had an Epiphany and wrote The Patristic Gospels published in 1904, which is strange 4 a Black Magic Devotee and Occultist, eh Owen...Many videos are indicating that JTR had to have some medical knowledge and surgical skill, according to the medical examiner reports at the time of 1888, so Francis Thompson, though didn't become a Doctor, probably had the knowledge and skills to do the mutilations...As U said, Owen, needs to be much higher on the suspect list...What he did with the body parts he took, who knows?, but RDS had a purpose for the parts and a means to store them, eh Owen. Cheers fm Damo😀

Awesome video as per usual. This comes back to I think the Mary Jane Kelly murder is a different person. Her murder has all the hallmarks of a crime of passion. It is personal. The other murders seem more systematic and impersonal. I really do think this is an excellent video series 😀

Sutcliffe was married

He's my pick there's a good book written by Tracy I'anson well worth a read

If you are going to start blurring the lines between fact and fiction, then Sir Arthur Conan Doyle emerges very much on the side of the angels. He secured the acquittal of an Indian lawyer, who had been wrongly convicted of a series of horse ripping's. The event reads very much like the plot of one of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Patricia Cornell makes a good case for the painter Walter Sickert. He probably wasn’t the Ripper, but was definitely fascinated by the case.

People kill where they are comfortable. I don't think there has ever been a serial killer who killed in his hols for a few weeks and then went back to his normal job. Sexual psychopaths dont work like that. As one of the other comments mentioned the killer was a local who knew the area in depth. I think because the killings are extraordinary some feel the killer must have been someone who must have been "someone" the truth was he was a nobody. The idea of a famous nearly blind artist 20 years older than the suspect descriptions is at best unlikely

I knew conan was always a strange one. Bringing people he didn't even know onto his LATE NIGHT show 🤔 Mmhmmm make of that what you will.

H H Holmes?

Interesting theory. Doubtful. But he had the skills

I see cat i like video

The realest thing I saw today 😂

When you look at Doyal remember he was not the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes he was more like the bumbling Dr Watson..He was into the belief of little fairies (not human type not to be rude..) Anyway, he was also into the fake spiritually of the day, also telepathy, so he was a little off center of the normal of the day. Was he Jack? I don't see it because he never displayed the anger hatred or anti authoratism Jack displayed. He was probably intrested in the ripper because he served as inspiration of the evils Sherlock would solve. Now the inspration of Holmes was an old proffeser he had. He used a person in the past to as a personal hero and blended it with the crimes of the day. The one thing that stands out to me is the deerslayer hat..both the ripper and Sherlock were reported to wear one.. but not compatant enough to be the Ripper profile in my opinion.

Loved the way you told this one. Also, Sherlock did like a disguise too.

I don't think Doyle was Jack the Ripper. The case against him comes down to that he was a man of the right age who lived in England and had the anatomical knowledge and knife skills to do it. I think the Dear Boss letter was a hoax, and therefore not a clue to anything. I think the Ripper targeted prostitutes not because he hated them, but because they were willing to go with him to places where they were unlikely to be disturbed. Doyle wasn't able to solve the Ripper murders, but neither was anyone else, unless you believe Anderson and Swanson did, in which case, Doyle wasn't their suspect. Being the Ripper wouldn't make Doyle more famous if the crime remained unsolved. If he was interested in the case and knowledgeable about it, the same could be said for you and me.

I'll enjoy watching later..Criminal profiling existed!.

You need a paisley cravat to go with your flash suit. Would look great! Doyle's books are actually hard to read, characters are great but a hard row to get through. ❤

🤣🙂Gr8 Stuff, Owen...The Police apparently pulled a heap of people in to check their handwriting and Conan Doyle wasn't one of them, as he was never there in Whitechapel, as U said....Not JTR, but an interesting story on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen...Wonder if RDS wrote the Dear Boss letter, as he was a Journalist, as well as being a Retired Medical Doctor.🤔🙂

No way!

Good story Owen!

Straightaway You spoke it,born 1834,so age 54 in Ripper Time,when the suspect shoulda been around 30-35,but with a foreign accent🤔 👋for a Good Presentation as usual;-)

Oh, yeah. this guy is top 5 of suspects.

This series is champion. Have you yet done one on Robert Stephenson?

Was that the same facility as Graystone? A huge legendary psychiatric hospital near where I grew up.

I'll just say: Imagine living a posh life, living middle to upper class and wandering the decrepit streets of Whitechapel after midnight. Does not compute.

The police at the time did their best, but they did not understand the profile of a serial killer, as we do today. They investigated a lot of dead ends, such as convicted fraudsters, or a gang being responsible. Since these Whitechapel murders, hundreds, perhaps thousands of serial killers have been convicted and profiled. There has not been a single case, of a criminal gang doing something like this. There have been endless cases of some lone nonjob doing something like this.

Career criminals are no more likely to be serial killers, than a random person picked off the street. This is a total dead end in terms of identifying the Ripper. However it is an interesting subject in its own right. People lived in fear of gangs of this nature, in many cities in the UK, between the late 1900s and the first world war. Birmingham, Sheffield, and Glasgow were particularly bad. The Peaky Blinders are the most famous example, but whatever the BBC tells you, they were stamped out by the early 20s.

the ripper was someone who put the women at ease otherwise they would not have gone with him. So if it was Jacob it was at a time when he could control his mania and even perhaps put on an act and come across as charming. I wonder if they knew him from his business. All the women lived with 10 mins of each other and within 10 mins of Middlesex street. If they knew his butchers shop its likely that they knew his wife who used to serve people as well which could have perhaps put them even more at ease as they could possibly have perceived him as a safe married even family man influencing them to drop their guard even more.. .... In my limited ability of rationalising he's up there with the most prominent suspects...

This is the first time I've heard this theory. I think it's plausible, but I would think that if this gang had established enough of a presence in Whitechapel to have done this, there would be more evidence of them having been there. They probably would have been shaking down other people besides prostitutes for money. Also, it's widely believed that Nichols, Chapman, and Eddowes, and probably Kelly too, were all killed by the same person, and I'd think that if a gang were doing this, it wouldn't always be the same person doing the killing. I agree about that not being where the name Jack the Ripper came from. That came from the Dear Boss letter, which was probably written by a journalist. But note that Levy wasn't the only one unwilling to testify. Anderson and Swanson said that the only person to get a good look at Jack the Ripper identified him, but was unwilling to testify. They thought that was because the witness was unwilling to testify against a fellow Jew, but maybe they were wrong about why he wouldn't testify.

Terrific Research, Owen...Emma Smith in early 1888 said she was attacked by a gang and then passed a day later, I think....Possibly Martha Tabram likewise, though did not survive the attack, but those 2 crimes, which are not of the canonical 5, cud quite well have been done by this High Rip Gang, Owen....The 5 Official JTR crimes not done by a gang, as they had no reason to take body parts and if they were stand-over guys in a gang, the Increased Police Presence, Vigilante Groups, Undercover Police, Reporters and Roving Gangs looking to catch JTR, wud have nabbed them, especially if they were from Liverpool and not locals, Owen...Joseph Lawende identified one suspect in Mitre Square, but I understand your view of Joseph Levy and his testimony, as he was confusing with his estimation of the height of the suspect as 5 foot 3, the same as Jacob Levy's Height. Strange thing to say if he recognised Jacob and wanted to point the investigators in the wrong direction...Maybe he didn't want to say he saw a gang, but the Police went with Lawende's Testimony and a 5 foot 8 or 9 suspect, as he got a good look at the person....No one saw gangs around in any of the canonical 5 crimes and Charles Lechmere wud have seen a gang around Polly Nichols, as the time of death was close to when he found her or killed her, whichever, eh Owen......There is a Recent Theory that Louis Diemschutz had a gang of jewish guys that committed the JTR crimes, but I'll leave that one to U to check-out, as it seems a bit of a stretch, just like the High Rip Gang, eh Owen...Wonder if John Lennon's Grand Dad or Great Grand Dad was in this High Rip Gang in Liverpool, eh Owen...Boggles the mind, but Peaky Blinders pretty cool stuff, as well....RDS said a Doctor in London Hospital Whitechapel by the name of Dr. Morgan Davies was JTR, but very likely it was RDS that was JTR, IMHO, Owen. Cheers fm Damo😀

Emma Smith said she was attacked by 3 men. But she was attacked in a very different way. This theory reminds me of Randy Williams. Owen, have you heard of him and his theory? It’s interesting.

However Robert Paul’s own statement includes the mention of gangs operating in the area

I'm so glad you didn't forget the beetroot! But really Mr Inbetween beets PBlinders any day of the week with a y in it. Stand over man, now what is the origin of that?