The Life And Crimes Of George Chapman - "Jack The Ripper At Last."

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  • This video provides an in depth and detailed look at the life and crimes of Jack the Ripper suspect Severin Klosowski, alias George Chapman. We detail his life, the three murders he was known to have committed, and explore his candidature for having been Jack the Ripper.
    CHAPTERS
    00:00:00 - Introduction To George Chapman
    00:00:49 - Born Severin Klosowski in Poland in 1865.
    00:01:01 - Klosowski’s medical training in Poland
    00:01:47 - Marries his first wife
    00:01:52 - Applies to study surgery
    00:02:40 - Klosowski leaves Poland For London 1887 - 1888
    00:03:02 - Settles In the East End of London and becomes a barber.
    00:04:20 - Meets and Marries Lucy Baderski
    00:04:27 - 1890. Works as a barber in the cellar of the White Hart Pub, Whitechapel High Street.
    00:04:54 - His wife from Poland arrives in London.
    00:05:10 - The two wives meet
    00:05:43 - 1891. His and Lucy’s son dies and the coupe go to America
    00:06:15 - Klosowski threatens Lucy with a knife
    00:07:27 - Returns to London
    00:07:53 - Meets Annie Chapman
    00:08:27 - Assumes The Name George Chapman
    00:08:59 - Moves To Leytonstone
    00:09:56 - Meets Mary Spink
    00:10:59 - George Chapman and Mary Spink supposedly marry
    00:12:22 - The Chapmans move to Hastings
    00:13:00 - Opens a barber’s shop in George Street, Hastings
    00:15:11 - The local chemist provides Chapman with poison
    00:16:37 - Chapman meets Alice Penfold
    00:18:04 - The Chapmans return to London and take over the Prince of Wales pub
    00:18:14 - Mary Chapman is stricken with a mysterious illness.
    00:19:57 - The death of Mary Chapman
    00:21:01 - Mary buried in St Patrick’s Cemetery, Leytonstone
    00:21:21 - Chapman’s cruelty to the little boy, William
    00:22:09 - Chapman meets Elizabeth “Bessie” Taylor
    00:22:46 - Bessie and George move to Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire
    00:23;28 - They return to London and take over the Monument pub in Union Street, Southwark.
    00:23:59 - Bessie begins to suffer from a mystery illness
    00:27:03 - The death of Bessie Taylor
    00:27:28 - Bessie buried in St Mary’s Church, Lymm, Cheshire
    00:29:01 - Chapman meets Maud Marsh
    00:31.25 - Maud Marsh marries George Chapman
    00:32:01 - Maud and Chapman move to the Crown pub on Borough High Street
    00:32:45 - Chapman goes to court claiming he had been defrauded
    00:35:19 - Florence Rayner becomes his barmaid and he makes advances to her.
    00:36:23 - Maud Marsh stricken with a mystery illness
    00:42:54 - The death of Maud Marsh
    00:43:33 - Dr. Stoker refuses to issue a death certificate
    00:44:17 - Traces of poison found in Maud’s body
    00:46:52 - Inspector George Godley arrests George Chapman
    00:49:04 - Severin Klosowski’s Polish papers found
    00:50:00 - George Chapman charged with the murder of Maud Marsh
    00:50:16 - Chapman appears at Southwark Police Court
    00:50:56 - Suspected of also poisoning Bessie Taylor
    00:52:27 - Maud Marsh’s inquest opens
    00:53:25 - The police investigation
    00:54:13 - Chapman’s perjury proved
    00:54:44 - Alfred Clark pardoned and released
    00:55:15 - The funeral of Maud Marsh
    00:57:42 - Cause of Maud Marsh’s death established as antimonial poisoning
    00:59:21 - Bessie Taylor’s body exhumed
    01:00:51 - Antimony found in Bessie Taylor’s organs
    01:00:54 - Mary Spink’s body exhumed
    01:01:49 - Antimony also found in the organs of Mary Spink
    01:01:57 - Inquest verdict on Maud Marsh announced
    01:03:00 - Chapman now charged as Severin Klosowski
    01:04:06 - Lucy Baderski traced and identifies Chapman as Severin Klosowski
    01:06:49 - Chapman committed for trial at the Old Bailey
    01:07:14 - The Old Bailey trial of Severin Klosowski, alias George Chapman
    01:10:44 - Found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.
    01:12:26 - Suggestions appear in the newspapers that Chapman was Jack the Ripper
    01:14:13 - The Pall Mall Gazette seeks Inspector Abberline’s opinion
    01:18:42 - Abberline told Godley “You’ve caught Jack the Ripper at last”
    01:21:09 - Chapman’s last days
    01:21:56 - The execution of George Chapman
    01:23:40 - His possessions auctioned
    01:25:26 - Conclusion
    01:26:27 - Closing Credits
    A BRIEF SYNOPSIS
    We follow him from his birth in Poland as Severin Klosowski, through to his medical and surgical training and on to his arrival in England.
    He settled in the East End of London, where he became a barber, and married a Polish woman (she was, in fact, his second wife); and then follow the couple as they head for America.
    On his return to London, Klosowski met a lady named Annie Chapman, and, although their relationship did not last that long, he adopted her surname, and, thereafter became George Chapman.
    He went on to marry three women all of whom he poisoned with antimony.
    Finally brough to justice in 1902, he was found guilty at the Old Bailey, was sentenced to death and was executed in April 1903.

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  • @hunterace9235
    @hunterace9235 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Outstanding in depth research!
    Bravo, Thanks for making this story so entertaining! 🏅

    • @JackTheRipperTours
      @JackTheRipperTours  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you, very kind of you to say so.

  • @qamerashah
    @qamerashah 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Fantastic presentation. Have heard Chapman’s story from several sources but this by far the best with so many details that I have not heard anywhere else even about his last day.

  • @jonkline709
    @jonkline709 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Just done listening to this video. Wish I had the words to express how much I enjoyed the quality of the video the audio and all the details. Thank you

  • @patriciahorne1522
    @patriciahorne1522 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    This was very interesting. You have a good narration style. Would love to hear more stories like these.

    • @sittingonariver
      @sittingonariver 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      His narrative and detailed accounts led me straight to subscribing. 😊

  • @Flargblargyar
    @Flargblargyar ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I dont know if hes jack but i do know that this presentation was excellent!

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He was.

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      He couldn't speak English. Can't be placed at a crime scene. Poisoned women he was intimate with. I've heard of very few serial killers changing their MO'S. Just doesn't add up to me. Plus, the police back then were very anti-Semitic.

    • @jessiebrinklow1595
      @jessiebrinklow1595 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😊

    • @normandavidtidiman9918
      @normandavidtidiman9918 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@walkawaycat431 How did he get by if he "couldn't speak English",and attempt to claim he was American?

    • @JhonREEVES
      @JhonREEVES 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kevin6293 ¹9th

  • @Aurochhunter
    @Aurochhunter ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Ah yes, I remember reading about George Chapman as a Jack the Ripper suspect elsewhere, and how there was some doubt about this, as he killed his wife by poisoning her, while Jack the ripper used a knife, and it seemed unusual for the killer to change their modus operandi.

    • @JohntheLNERP2
      @JohntheLNERP2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I don't think it would be hard for a serial killer to change their modus I think it would actually be smart for a serial killer to change their MO especially to throw police off their trails it's one of the why it took nearly 50 years to finally capture Joseph DeAngelo so maybe George Chapman is the Ripper and changed his MO like DeAngelo did

    • @adoculos4521
      @adoculos4521 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@JohntheLNERP2 Except Chapman was 23 in 1888, too young to be Jack the Ripper.

    • @crose7412
      @crose7412 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@adoculos4521 That huge moustache made him appear much older - at least 2 witnesses said the man they saw looked about 30.

    • @phoradio1277
      @phoradio1277 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@JohntheLNERP2ummmmmmm that's not how that works. Killers "Evolve" but that's more of them discovering that they are more messed up than they realize so the evolution is more or less pushing fantasy to the limit. It takes a completely different type of person who kills by poison, think of Angel's of Death like a nurse giving a patient insulin as opposed to butchering someone. Once a killer commits his first "possession" he will usually stick with his method because it's what he enjoys. Bundy Bludgeoned, Gacy strangled and Dahmer tried to create zombies. Bundy had his heart broken, Gacy hated the fact he was homosexual and Dahmer wanted slaves who could never leave. What didn't happen was Gacy picking up a female prostitute and then he cuts her throat. They evolve but not when it comes to method. Hopefully that helps explain it a little bit👌

    • @phoradio1277
      @phoradio1277 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@JohntheLNERP2You are correct on 1 point. If you want to become an excellent serial killer simply change the way you kill someone every time. The problem with a serial killer is they have no connection with the victim. The most recent study, 2020, showed that the FBI calculates that you have a 1 in 226 chance of meeting a serial killer during your lifetime.

  • @rachelled6763
    @rachelled6763 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I wonder what ever became of Chapman's unwanted son William who he callously sent to the workhouse?

    • @RegHoldsworth-ri7hh
      @RegHoldsworth-ri7hh หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wonder if there's any information on him. Good point.

  • @perlefisker
    @perlefisker ปีที่แล้ว +25

    A truly heartless man. Of all the horrors, the one that went straight to my heart was when he abstained from kissing his dying wife, who asks to be kissed. So cold.

    • @robertrockwell7581
      @robertrockwell7581 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @perlefisker he knew if he kissed her he would get the poison on his lips.

    • @DavidSmith-bd8dd
      @DavidSmith-bd8dd 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Guilt most of us feel it. Sorry but I don't believe he is jack! Not for 1 minute.

  • @hillshounds
    @hillshounds ปีที่แล้ว +17

    That was splendid! Thank you for this long, detailed, and beautifully narrated video.

  • @warcrypublishing
    @warcrypublishing ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thanks Richard, my watch this evening

  • @avondalemama470
    @avondalemama470 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Very interesting documentary. It is excellently presented. I do not think Chapman was Jack the Ripper, but I do believe he received the punishment he deserved. I can’t imagine the pain those women endured at his cruel hand. Hello from South Carolina.

    • @annetteyousko1143
      @annetteyousko1143 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      &😅ii] >

    • @orionxtc1119
      @orionxtc1119 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      poisoning and slashing in a frenzy like Jack the Ripper are so different as methods, I too am not convinced Chapman was Jack

  • @ftumschk
    @ftumschk ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Excellent feature-length documentary!
    I think it might be be useful to clarify Klosowski's "surgical" background, as mentioned early in the video. It's important to know that he was only ever a "feldsher" or "barber-surgeon" - indeed, the so-called "Senior Surgeon" to whom he was apprenticed, Moshko Rappaport, was a feldsher, and Rappaport's son would follow in his father's footsteps. Likewise, when Klosowski moved to Warsaw, he enrolled on a relatively brief feldsher training course, rather than a much longer, more thorough and more expensive medical/surgical degree.
    Feldshers spent most of their time giving customers shaves and haircuts, but they'd also perform minor medical procedures - lancing boils, stitching/dressing wounds, applying leeches and other folk cures - so they were hardly "surgeons" in the British sense. Trouble is, there being no real equivalent for "feldsher" in the English of the time, the word "surgeon" was used when Klosowski's papers were translated for his trial. (It was these translations which also found their way into HL Adam's important book on the Chapman case.) Unfortunately, this inaccurate rendering of "feldsher" as "surgeon" would fuel speculation that Klosowski was Jack the Ripper, given the alleged "surgical knowledge/skill" seen by some in the Whitechapel murders.
    Whether the Ripper actually had _any_ surgical skill is a whole other debate, but it's safe to say that Klosowski's training as a feldsher would have given him no more experience/skill at removing internal organs than a modern-day nurse or paramedic.

    • @vespasian606
      @vespasian606 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Very interesting. I think I am going to be adding Adam's book to my libray.

    • @addie_is_me
      @addie_is_me ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow, that was interesting, Thank you. I have heard it both ways, JTR had to have medical skills -vs- he clearly had no medical skills. A feldsher would fall nicely right in the middle of the two.

    • @ftumschk
      @ftumschk ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@vespasian606 Adam's book is old (1930) and out-of-print, and contains some inaccuracies. Helena Wojtczak's superb 2013 book on Chapman, _"Jack The Ripper At Last?"_ is the one to get. It's also out of print, but you should be able to find a copy fairly easily.

    • @ftumschk
      @ftumschk ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@addie_is_me Thanks for the reply. Feldshers didn't perform any internal surgery, so would have no more experience at removing abdominal organs than (say) a bus driver or librarian.

    • @adoculos4521
      @adoculos4521 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Unfortunately, Abberline's lack of education made him wrong as he thought Chapman was a surgeon. In addition, arsenic wasn't that difficult to get hold of and you didn't have to have any medical knowledge to know how to kill someone with it.

  • @Charlie_Ses
    @Charlie_Ses ปีที่แล้ว +19

    He must have been a charming man at any rate, he had no problem acquiring new victims.
    It seems amazing no rumours about him started to spread once his 3rd wife started getting ill with the same symptoms.

    • @adoculos4521
      @adoculos4521 ปีที่แล้ว

      Considering his awful complexion I wonder that any woman went with him.

  • @GeoffNelson
    @GeoffNelson ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Absolutely excellent work, Richard. Thank you for all your hard work.

  • @peacelove7332
    @peacelove7332 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I love your longer videos, thanks so much

  • @dermotkelly6946
    @dermotkelly6946 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fantastic , will watch tonight 👍

  • @mathewlawton8944
    @mathewlawton8944 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you Richard been looking forward 2 a Chapman video

  • @timothyodonnell3114
    @timothyodonnell3114 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The back and forth between Aberline and the editor felt like an early 20th century version of a youtube comment section.

  • @leojablonski2309
    @leojablonski2309 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This presentation, narriation and 'Strand' artwork animation are beyond words. Thank you ! Please do more

  • @teagunn
    @teagunn ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Absolutely superb research, editing and narration! Interesting theories too. Well done! Thank you! 💜

  • @-Reagan
    @-Reagan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It’s clear that most people had the wrong idea of the personality and type of person Jack was. The Pall Mall Gazette was exactly right about George being able to watch three of his wives slowly tortured to death.
    Not only to watch, to listen to them beg and cry and moan and scream in the throes of pain, to hear them vomiting and losing their bodily functions, to smell that and the smells of sickness and body odors, sweating in excruciating pain.
    I don’t know if there’s enough to persuade me to believe he’s the Whitechapel killer but, the poisonings certainly do more to rule him in than out.
    It’s not unheard of for murderers to change their modus operandi or type of victims, especially in the same gender.
    I don’t think Jack had anything against prostitutes, specifically. They were simply easier prey without arousing as much alarm or backlash as if he’d been killing women of another class.
    The police made that mistake, before - in the Yorkshire Ripper murders and the Green River killer Gary Ridgway and others. They were victims of opportunity and oppression that made them vulnerable. Which means murder victims who were not prostitutes should not be ruled out as being committed by The Whitechapel killer. He likely had victims who weren’t prostitutes at all. Are there any who were doubted to be prostitutes? Or murders that were ruled out as being committed by him due to class? Murders that might fit?
    As for his personality, behavior and sanity Jack was living as sanely on the outside as the rest. He was no madman frothing at the mouth - not unless he was in the frenzy of the attack. Look at Ted Bundy, for instance. Or Dennis Radar aKa BTK. Ted Bundy took women one at a time on most occasions, but he also had periods of frenzied murder sprees, as when he kidnapped two victims from Sammamish Lake in one day, back to back. The attacks on the women of a sorority house in Florida - brutal beatings, unspeakable acts of abuse on their bodies, rape, strangulation - all of it in one night, room to room without waking anyone before he attacked them.
    The Yorkshire Ripper, BTK Dennis Radar and the Green River Killer Gary Ridgway were all married. Bundy had a long term relationship with a woman. He married another, during his trial. He’d known her before his arrest.
    I definitely believe The Whitechapel killer was married, if even separated. It’s likely he was still with her. He had a job, as well and no one thought he was the killer. If anyone has suspected anything it would be his wife or possibly children if they were adults. I doubt they did. If anyone thought he was off, they wouldn’t have suspected how off.
    Jack looked and acted just like everyone else. Well enough to fit in and pass without suspicion, anyway.

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Exactly. Just like Charles Allen Lechmere.

    • @501sqn3
      @501sqn3 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@walkawaycat431 ....it wasn't him either!!.

  • @leslierock5005
    @leslierock5005 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you richard really enjoyed that, excellent.

  • @ceeceecee6138
    @ceeceecee6138 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Brilliantly researched video. Thank you!

  • @lindaflynn68
    @lindaflynn68 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Very well presented and narrated.

  • @mytwocents848
    @mytwocents848 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Riveting story and exceptionally researched. No evidence he could be Jack the Ripper, but he no doubt was a serial murderer. It is an ironic fact that he actually met Annie Chapman (one of the Ripper's victims) and ended up appropriating her name! What a cold customer! Glad he was caught! wonderful narration, too.

    • @orionxtc1119
      @orionxtc1119 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I read the book about Maybricks diary... also seems so convincing and other books naming others which appear so convincing.... teh fact that all murders took oplace in one year is fascinating for me... why all in one year... did the perp die, go to prison or went abroad....

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You’re not aware of all the circumstantial evidence against Chapman? How about the fact that the whitechapel redrums paused for a year as soon as he got married? Or the fact that he was a feldsher? Or that his wife testified that he liked to go out in the middle of the night and didn’t come back til dawn?

  • @ColumboE7
    @ColumboE7 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great job in retelling this history

  • @jamescorlett5272
    @jamescorlett5272 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Alright Sir Richard - good listen mate Thanks .

  • @faustomasic
    @faustomasic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great work yet again!

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The dedication is beautiful - as is the piano piece at the end. 🥀🌷🌱

  • @lunaumbra
    @lunaumbra ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I really enjoyed that. Excellent work. Thank you.

  • @darrenfry4695
    @darrenfry4695 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What an awesome show! Really enjoyed that cheers for sharing.

  • @BawlzOfuzz
    @BawlzOfuzz ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I used to live at number 9 Church Lane in Leytonstone. Fun time in my life. Obviously I had no idea who the neighbour was. 😅

    • @paulguise698
      @paulguise698 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good God

    • @BawlzOfuzz
      @BawlzOfuzz ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@paulguise698 That's what I said when I saw the photo of my house! I lived there in the mid 2000's with a bunch of friends. Fortunately I can't report any strange goings on... other than what my housemates and I were getting up to. 😉

  • @jasontuck-smith3896
    @jasontuck-smith3896 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Even though I don't think Chapman was the Ripper this was another excellent video.

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He definitely was the ripper

  • @richardbspeck147
    @richardbspeck147 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great piece of work.! From start to finish.!

  • @StrawberrySue777
    @StrawberrySue777 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great work!

  • @samsum3738
    @samsum3738 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    An excellent documentary . Thank you .

  • @drbigmdftnu
    @drbigmdftnu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Remarkable story in its own right. Whether he's JTR or not.. the M.O. is too different, unless he modified because he wanted victims to die slowly. Really sadistic. Did he take out insurance policies on any of his wives/girlfriends?

  • @tonycowin
    @tonycowin ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm an hour in and thiugh I don't want this to end. Checks time - still an hour. Yes.
    Feature-length. Amazing work.

  • @suesmith9202
    @suesmith9202 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I truly enjoyed that.

  • @gmaureen
    @gmaureen 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent documentary! Severin, aka George, could (in my mind) definitely be Jack the Ripper.

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He definitely was.

  • @smburr1
    @smburr1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Outstanding

  • @RogerLareau-qx2cy
    @RogerLareau-qx2cy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very well done.

  • @davesmith7432
    @davesmith7432 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    These insidious types of killers can be just as dangerous as any serial murderer. Georges story reminds me of Graham Young. After he got locked up, even the prison guards were afraid of him.
    Was Jack the Ripper a father? I think so. Happy Fathers Day Rich and to all the fellas out there!

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. Charles Allen Lechmere was a father of 12.

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don’t think Chapman had any kids.

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@walkawaycat431you’re going to have to explain why literally no one involved in the case suspected Lechmere/Cross of being guilty even though they had all the information you have (and much more). I guess you’re just real real smart? 🤣

  • @blrenx
    @blrenx ปีที่แล้ว

    Very enjoyable .. Thanks for all the research Jack..I mean... Richard

  • @nikitameo8711
    @nikitameo8711 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Appreciate the dedication at the end. r.i.p.

  • @paulbeswick5814
    @paulbeswick5814 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really good

  • @timculp4126
    @timculp4126 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    If I was casting Jack the Ripper for a movie, I'd want someone who looked just like George Chapman

    • @duneideannaer5990
      @duneideannaer5990 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Whereas if I were casting, I'd want one fluent in the works of 'Stephen Adams'......... or should I say Mi-

    • @tonysmith3556
      @tonysmith3556 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I agree my friend but that's every victorian man in the world looked the same it seems like the Zodiac killer every one looked like that in 60s califirnia or so it would seem

    • @KeplersDream
      @KeplersDream ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pity Vincent Price isn't available, he'd be perfect.

    • @timculp4126
      @timculp4126 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tonysmith3556 Ah yes. The horned rim glasses.

    • @kevinkenny6975
      @kevinkenny6975 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If I were casting he would look like Lechmere

  • @annsutherland6553
    @annsutherland6553 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing

  • @editaedita473
    @editaedita473 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for this!

  • @thepuffin-ss9ln
    @thepuffin-ss9ln หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good presentation. I just cant believe how many really bad people were around london in the late 19th

  • @ukchristian28
    @ukchristian28 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    4:42: The information on that sign is a little misleading. It says "At the time" implying that Chapman lived and worked in the cellar of the White Hart Pub at the time of the murders. He didn't actually move in until 1890, two years after the "Jack the RIpper" murders.

  • @williamheale5162
    @williamheale5162 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the idea of a musical shave.

    • @davekeating.
      @davekeating. ปีที่แล้ว

      Ala Pulp Fiction...

    • @wattyler2994
      @wattyler2994 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sweeney Todd? You'll love it its got Johnny Depp in it..😊

  • @pseudofox
    @pseudofox 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's greatly disturbing how a man of such evil could kill again and again as time went on, with my belief being that even if he was not the Ripper he likely attacked other victims who's names are not known.

  • @michaelsmyth3935
    @michaelsmyth3935 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    1:11:00 Klosowski cried only for himself. Love the, I do not know of whom you speak defense.
    Far as the JtR concern, poisoners seldom mix modus, but...
    1:16:00 Any Hunter who had field dressed a deer could have been Jack.
    Brilliant presentation, hard to imagine what sort of upbringing leads to such a sadistic psychopath.

    • @MakerInMotion
      @MakerInMotion 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't know about that. To say someone who field dressed a deer could surgically remove a woman's uterus is like saying someone who can change their cars oil could install a new transmission.

  • @Ploskkky
    @Ploskkky 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What a monstrous man, but his poisonous m.o. does not seem to fit the brutal, messy barbarism of the Ripper.
    I do not think we will ever know for sure.

    • @prevost8686
      @prevost8686 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In any case he was still a quite rare specimen in that he was a poisoner . That’s overwhelmingly a female’s MO.

  • @paulguise698
    @paulguise698 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hiya Richard, I watched this latest vlog this morning, and I enjoyed it tremendously, I liked the part where the judge called him by his polish name, I didn't know there were plaques saying where Jack The Ripper lived, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Jack the Ripper lived at 22 Doveton Street, Bethnal Green.

    • @kawasakikev8905
      @kawasakikev8905 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@walkawaycat431 well you must know who he was as well then ..

  • @annoyingbstard9407
    @annoyingbstard9407 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember BBC radio four doing a program about this man a few years back. They dismissed claims about him being the ripper.

  • @donkeyboy585
    @donkeyboy585 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Seems to me that the police offered Chapman up long after the fact to deflect criticism of their inability to find the actual Ripper

  • @YachiruRetsuUnohana
    @YachiruRetsuUnohana ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Whatever happened to the wife that followed him to America? I think he killed her too. Great video.

    • @addie_is_me
      @addie_is_me ปีที่แล้ว

      Lost track, but he killed all of the others so he probably shoved her overboard or something.

    • @adoculos4521
      @adoculos4521 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No, the first wife returned to Poland. The next one, Lucie, that he went to America with returned to London. She was the one that identified him by his Polish name in jail. He didn't kill either of them.

    • @robertrockwell7581
      @robertrockwell7581 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @cherfan 1000 they told about her in this video. she was the one who identified him while he was in prison. and he claimed he did not know her.

  • @thekitowl
    @thekitowl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What these presentations prove is many people back in the 1800’s went under different names for what ever reason. Using a different name doesn’t mean someone is guilty of anything.

  • @MyTv-
    @MyTv- 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The arsenic likely preserved the bodies, as it also was used in embalming at the time.

  • @adoculos4521
    @adoculos4521 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wonder if he was taking out life insurance on all these so called 'wives'? Btw, his eyes and odd expression in the photo remind me of Bryan Kohberger!

    • @vespasian606
      @vespasian606 ปีที่แล้ว

      I get the impression with Chapman that he was a very sharp operator. If he discarded the life insurance angle I'd say it was a calculated decision rather than a cautionary one.

  • @carolbarnes859
    @carolbarnes859 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am 51 years old. I have read almost all of the JTR books on suspects etc. No one will ever know who he/she was. suspects are fitted in and around the story rather than proven to be a reasonable suspect at all. Any records from that time, were not very accurate.

  • @Angel-nu7fm
    @Angel-nu7fm ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thought there would be more about the connection, especially when the first wife's name was Annie Chapman, the same as one of the victims...surprised that wasn't pointed out in the video...any relation/connection there???? Truly very little to link him....

    • @MikeGreenwood51
      @MikeGreenwood51 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wasn't the Judge also named George Chapman?

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Exactly. Nothing whatsoever to connect him to the murders. Can't even be placed at a crime scene.

  • @tonylinsell8918
    @tonylinsell8918 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent as always Richard,he was an awful character

  • @elizabethabraybant7282
    @elizabethabraybant7282 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Could Chapman have been the mysterious Nathan Kaminski?

  • @marypatten9655
    @marypatten9655 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    While unusual for a killer to change the way and maner of killibg. It not entirely unknown for some to do so. Very interesting documentary. He may have very well been curious enough to kill and cut open these women to remove body parts.
    Thank you for sharing.
    God bless

  • @anthonykology1728
    @anthonykology1728 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the rabbit hole goes deeper....and deeper.

  • @MatthewOfLondon
    @MatthewOfLondon ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent and intriguing documentary. 🤓 It makes one wonder if George was Jack....

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No. A poisoner was not JTR. Place him at a crime scene?

    • @wattyler2994
      @wattyler2994 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      George wasn't Jack but Jack wasn't Jill either...

  • @user-es5mr8ps3k
    @user-es5mr8ps3k 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    👌👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍

  • @ruiseartalcorn
    @ruiseartalcorn ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Many thanks for this great presentation. It's a fascinating story and I believe that this fiend could indeed have been "Jack".

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Charles Allen Lechmere

  • @Tsumami__
    @Tsumami__ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Poor Maude

  • @tonysmith3556
    @tonysmith3556 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Superb film really made my day. Thank flock he didn't have kids. Not JTR tho. Abberline was off his nut if he said he was.

    • @wattyler2994
      @wattyler2994 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Aberlines comments or alleged comments have been misconstrued. I don't think he literally meant he believed Chapman to be the actual Ripper but a monster in the same genre as JTR. In later interviews he did say that Chapman was the sort of bloke he had been searching for in 1888. However we will never know for sure because inexplicably despite the money he would have earned he never published or apparently even privately wrote memoirs if his career

    • @kevin6293
      @kevin6293 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He definitely was Jack the Ripper.

  • @rickmills4801
    @rickmills4801 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Like Biscodawg, below, I can't say that Chapman was Jack, although there's several points in favor of the idea.
    What gave me pause was the idea that this man's story could feasibly be the germ from which arose the tale of Sweeney Todd!

  • @ladysnowblood
    @ladysnowblood 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Interesting but what killer goes from poisoning to removing parts? That's not really something really documented.

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not one that I can think of.

  • @sarapeterson5609
    @sarapeterson5609 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    HELLO ANDIE 😁😁👍👍👋👋💯💥💥💥

  • @mickmcguire4571
    @mickmcguire4571 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brilliant work and interesting case on this sick individual but i just cant see him being jack

    • @wattyler2994
      @wattyler2994 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nobody saw Jack so you are probably right...

  • @itsjohndell
    @itsjohndell ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Exceeding even your own content once again, Richard. May I humbly suggest that, while the tour company is I understand your main business, that you consider that having broadened (very successfully) the subject matter you might consider a change of name to "The Ripper Era"? Might bring in more new viewers who may not be only interested in Ripper Lore. You would lose not one subscriber. As to Chapman, interesting as a plausible suspect, I have to agree with Syms. Unlikely that a murderer who strangled his victims before violating their bodies would turn to slowly and agonizing death for these victims. Did they exist at the same time, surely. But unrelated in anyway.

    • @adoculos4521
      @adoculos4521 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, I noticed that. It's particularly bad by 12:45 but then it's not my subject so I can't help but do microphones need to be adjusted/tuned in some way? It's hurting my ears and I've had to turn the sound down very low.

    • @itsjohndell
      @itsjohndell ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@adoculos4521 I think you replied to the wrong comment.

  • @mw54470
    @mw54470 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wonder what happened to the son William, so sad!

  • @russelldeitch5765
    @russelldeitch5765 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    W is a V in Polish, as in German.

  • @obersturmfuhrer88
    @obersturmfuhrer88 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I heard it was him, a polish barber. I also heard it was H.H. HOLMES. Another guy named Frederick demming was also thought to be the ripper. Nobody really knows.

  • @elsbet1656
    @elsbet1656 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    🖤

  • @kayleenkrolikowski7442
    @kayleenkrolikowski7442 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Creepy.....my polish name is quite similar to his given name😮😮😮

  • @otisdylan9532
    @otisdylan9532 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent subject for a video. I consider him one of the strongest Ripper suspects. Two more men that are strong suspects and would be great choices for videos are William Bury and George Hutchinson. Hutchinson has the additional advantage that he's undeniably part of the Ripper story as a possible witness even if he isn't the culprit.

    • @adoculos4521
      @adoculos4521 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No, Chapman was 23 in 1888, too young.

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Place him at a crime scene? Only one serious suspect can be placed at a crime scene. Charles Allen Lechmere.

    • @kawasakikev8905
      @kawasakikev8905 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@walkawaycat431 Lechmere wasn't considered a serious suspect at he time , he wasn't even questioned about the other murders even tho he was at the scene of the first one yes , we all know you think it was him , but you don't have to keep commenting .

  • @lauraholmes2402
    @lauraholmes2402 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Do they know what happened to the son he put into the workhouse?

  • @Blaze-hr2pk
    @Blaze-hr2pk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    He may have been a cold and calculating killer, but he was not Jack the ripper.
    Jack the ripper was a former butcher, turned mortician named John Siemore (or Seymore), who was interviewed by Scotland Yard, in the first group of interviews.
    He was spooked by this, so he moved to France, where he committed 1 more murder before dying of illness the following year.

  • @TheFedaykiin
    @TheFedaykiin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jacob Levy or James Hardiman are my choices

  • @megs4193
    @megs4193 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As I'm watching this, I'm wondering, could jack the ripper been Jackie, could it have been a woman, it was a very rough area there have been many female serial killers, a jealous wife fuelled with rage getting rid of night workers her husband may have been spending their money on. I know no one has ever mentioned such a thing, but in the original investigation I doubt they would have considered such a thing, even if someone had suggested it. It's very unlikely, but I do wonder after hearing stories about other violent women in this time and continued into the future. 🤷‍♀️🤔.

  • @markelmslie6832
    @markelmslie6832 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sounds like he was Jack, who was thought to have surgical knowledge, he lived in the area and was convicted of the murder of women.

    • @prevost8686
      @prevost8686 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Any butcher or farmer familiar with killing a pig could have easily done the crimes. Canabalistic tribes used to call humans “long pig” for a reason. Our anatomies and muscle groups are quite similar.

  • @DF-ee8vt
    @DF-ee8vt ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just a coincidence one of JTR's victims was named Annie Chapman? Same name as one of George's "wives".

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes. Just a coincidence. He can't be placed at a crime scene.

  • @newcountryguy
    @newcountryguy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think the Ripper was that kosminski guy. I could be wrong but that's who I think it is.

  • @phoradio1277
    @phoradio1277 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did i miss something here??? How can he be Jack the Ripper if by the sworn statement of the Inquisitior he didn't arrive in England until 1893? Am I experiencing Mandela or Dunning-Krueger 😂

    • @MikeGreenwood51
      @MikeGreenwood51 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Chapter Five 00:02:40 - Klosowski leaves Poland For London 1887 - 1888

  • @user-op8lm3he1p
    @user-op8lm3he1p ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i think it was kozminski heres why he was obsessed by a famous actress she was doing a show in sunderland there was a murder of a woman that exact night in sunderland exactly like ripper murders he was at the show but police didnt link it as it was not in london

  • @aflask1
    @aflask1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Definitely not the Ripper, this is still a very good presentation

  • @jonsantos-2938
    @jonsantos-2938 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would be possible that andersons book quote klosowski instead of komisky? Is close enough

  • @etsidan7003
    @etsidan7003 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Split personality, Chapman the poisoner & Klosowski the ripper? His denial of being Klosowski, even when witnesses identified him as such.

  • @DavidSmith-bd8dd
    @DavidSmith-bd8dd 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So u don't even no if he was in the country but Chapman poisoned his victims for money

  • @rozbeaumont
    @rozbeaumont ปีที่แล้ว

    I doubt with all these Ripperologists nobody will know he was

  • @josephmiller9424
    @josephmiller9424 ปีที่แล้ว

    Chapman was he inspiration for Sweeny Todd the killer barber and he shaved also , and johny Dep if he had a mustache would look like him

    • @MikeGreenwood51
      @MikeGreenwood51 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sweeny Todd predates 1888. So
      no the characters Sweeny Todd or Misses Lovett were not inspired by George Chapman.

  • @josephmiller9424
    @josephmiller9424 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He and H.H.Holmes could past for family it's so weird that most of the men accused of THE RIPPER killings looked alike and even if they were not the Ripper their background was bad they may have killed before or stole , and robbed people had more then 1 wives . And some had good jobs or had money but all seemed insane .

    • @walkawaycat431
      @walkawaycat431 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Charles Allen Lechmere looks nothing like these 2 men. He's the only serious suspect.