This was about as comprehensive a deconstruction of a case against as it’s possible to conceive, Mr. Stow. I used to think Aaron Kosminski a viable suspect - not anymore. Excellent research and very cogently argued.
The rain they believed playing with one self was a sign of mental illness was because the Bible said it was. The Bible said this whom do it can only gain forgiveness by plucking out one's own eyes. Hence why so many Romans plucked it their eyes. It was one of the only ways to be removed from the African front. Because of its mental implications. If they couldn't control their own desires they weren't fit to be around others.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 PLEASE APPLY THE SAME COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO A SEPARATE VIDEO ALL ABOUT THE "FROM HELL" LETTER. I love the level of research you do and I trust it. No one in my opinion has solely focused upon the "From Hell" letter only. I would love you to delve into everything about it as I believe without doubt that his is actually from JTR and the insight into his mind and frustrations are shown, cryptically I concede but nevertheless, if genuine (which I believe it to be) shows a great deal into the mindset of JTR. I want to know how the letter was delivered, my mail or hand delivered? The man it was delivered to; who was he and what impact could his committee have made on the streets of someone like JTR in terms of reduction of victims and opportunity. That letter to me smells of absolute frustration in that the writer feels cheated and angry about what that committee are doing on the streets a night to lower JTR prey availability and his fear himself of being caught as a result of that extra security being applied. On a separate note, one thing i did think of from watching your videos was how different the last victim was (Mary Kelly) from all the others. Substantially so in terms of age in particular. My understanding is that Lechmere had 12 children? Is it possible he had his fill with Kelly and therefore sated his desires given how in her case he was not rushed and got to do all the things he fantasized about? Is it possible he felt some guilt about her because he went so far, lost so much control and perhaps, she reminded him of his own daughter and his love for her/them caused him to stop? Just a thought but I think also worth investigating. Please do a video on the from hell letter though, I don't think you will ever get any closer to JTR than that letter.
It’s ironic his Andersons book came out in 1910 when Lechmere was still alive, I wander if he ever saw it or even read it, if he did he probably laughed inside.
This is what I like about your content, Edward, and your friend Christer Holmgren's: you not only put forth the evidence for Lechmere's guilt, you take pains to explain *why* the police missed him in the first place. With every other suspect, people are grasping at straws now, just as Swanson and Anderson were back then. That "it was the crazy Jewish immigrant from Poland" remains the most "mainstream" theory on the Ripper's identity is just mind-boggling to me.
Shorts was most likely seen whilst in the act. Conjecture I know but think about this. A man sees Shorts in the act and shouts Lipski and Shorts panicking runs across the street from where a woman was later found murdered. He puts himself there!!. Worried he had been seen & identified. He goes straight to police to report himself a witness. The man who shouted Lipski never comes forward. Also man with pipe never identified. Police did thorough investigation. No man with pipe. Shorts could well be JTR. Kosminski easy scapegoat.
Just randomly got this recommendation from the algorithm, not a jack ripper guy.. don’t know anything about the case(besides that it was never solved) Excited to check this series and I’m sure it will make it into my bedtime rotation, appreciate the content dude.
With 30 years of forensic psychiatric nursing experience I agree completely that while any one of the frenzied attacks could have been the result of someone in the depths of psychosis a series of such murders would suggest the complete opposite! To suggest someone with a severe disabling mental illness would then only murder during periods of mental stability when they would need to be a sadistic sexual psychopath is highly unlikely and I can think of no such cases.
Totally agree. I'm an LVN, I've worked the last 32 years with Dementia, schizophrenic patients in a nursing home lockdown unit. I've been my schizophrenic brother's guardian since 1996. It's very unlikely JtR was a young schizophrenic.
@@Makaveli_93 Males usually don't start developing symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia until around 18 years of age. Females are much younger when symptoms develop. Very few serial killers are schizophrenic.
@@Makaveli_93 Sloppy, unorganized, very impulsive. Kosminski couldn't hide his crazy in the daylight. What makes you think he'd get away with this? He can't even be placed at a crime scene. He could barely speak English.
It's amazing to me with all the notable "Ripperologists" out there, none of them agree on any suspect. I have to admit that's part of the reason I find all the research so interesting.
@noahbrock349 In 2019, they did DNA from the only remaining evidence of the crimes. The DNA tested back through ancestry with seven on the scarf to Aaron. People still argue it amd claim the scarf did not come from the crime scenes etc...but there you have it, DNA seminal fluid from him.
Thank you for visiting the locations and providing a "just the facts," style of narration. You are so good at this, should you conclude with your investigations, and you want to continue this style of reporting, please consider going through the Annotated Sherlock Holmes and discuss the real cases that inspired many of the Sherlock Holmes stories, perhaps in a second channel. I don't know if it's of interest to you, but even a tour of all the stories, inspired by true crime or not, would be extremely entertaining for a very large audience and you have the style of delivery that would make it thoroughly enjoyable.
Nice idea, but a hell of a lot of work for somebody not familiar with that topic. I don't know if Ed is or isn't but I think he has his hands full with the Jack The Ripper topic still.
The background information about the London police superiors on the case is totally fascinating. Rather than assuming they were experienced and knowledgeable cops, THOL has once again provided superb research that breaks these suppositions down. All of this still leaves Charles Lechmere as the strongest suspect IMO. Great video Mr Stow!
Indeed. How many times are we told by the Kosminski supporters that the bigwigs knew what they were doing and thus can't have been wrong? That's been their mantra.
Blomer is two faced. In one comment he once argued he doesn't rule out Lechmere from being a suspect... but then goes on to write books on how Lechmere wasn't a suspect. Wish the man would make up he's mind.
A cool and calculating person would never have risked to kill Stride and Chapman and probably also Eddowes and Nichols where JTR did. He only depended on luck to get away from the murdered Chapman and during the Stride murder he was probably even witnessed by two people. It was never in his hands to get away, he just took a chance and had tremendous luck. He did not even care to be discovered, otherwise he would not have risked those murders in first place. I don't say that JTR was totally insane, but I also don't think he was as normal as many think today. He was simply a slave of his drives when he was doing what he was doing and afterwards and in between he maybe functioned reasonably, like many people.
@FrankMcCloud We can argue he was definitely a cool and calculating customer to work out how much time he had in Mitre Square between police beats, and he was cool and clever enough to get the job done on time. Little risk in the back yard of Hanbury Street in the dark when people were asleep in bed. I don't think Schwartz saw JTR. He didn't even see Stride being murdered. JTR wouldn't have pulled a victim onto the street in full view of others and then shout at one of them. What Schwartz saw was likely nothing more than a drunk being approached by a lady of the night hawking herself and he took offence and reacted with violence. I dare say that must have been a frequent occurrence.
@@lyndoncmp5751 It seems very probable to me too that he always knew exactly the routes and time schedules of the policemen. Though it can't be totally excluded that he was simply extremely lucky. I think the risk in Hanbury Street was tremendous. Not to meet police, but one of the many tenants who lived in the building and particularly were already awake preparing for work. And even if they were sleeping, it could have easily been that a scream of the victim or just some noises could have woken up some. And most of all, he was in a trap in this backyard, he could not have escaped had someone come and there was no way for him to exclude this possibility, so this was sheer luck in the end. He could also not have been sure to not be seen when escaping from there, when stepping through the corridor and out of the door. As for Schwartz I think that the time frame was very narrow. Like in Bucks Row. Only a few minutes maybe and here the guy beating the woman would have needed to escape quickly while JTR must have already been around the corner. And the place was a very risky one too. Diemschütz could have arrived at any time and so could have someone left the building at any time.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! KEEP UPLOADING THEY ARE SO NICE! Now for real, you are the only person I know that keeps bringing new questions to this subject the others are just asking the same questions for no reason. It's not like they are going to ever solve the case by doing the same things over again.
@@leejames1792Who were the thousands of people seen standing around Polly Nichols just killed dead body in Bucks Row? Answers on a postage stamp please.
Wow what an excellent, thorough and damning riposte to the entire Kosminski theory. I've not seen a more exhaustive video on Kosminski. Everyone who favours Kosminski must watch this and take great heed. I'll have to watch it again to take it all in. Well done to you Ed. Brilliant. What I find incredible is the 'it would have been of no public benefit to reveal the identity of the killer' spiel. Seriously? No benefit for the public to know the most famous serial killer ever? How convenient of an excuse that was. "They don't need to know so we don't need to tell them!". Oh my goodness 😂.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 They certainly would have done, if only to protect their own police reputation...."we got our man, here he is, this is his name" etc.
What exactly is it you feel is a riposte here? I tend to favor Kosminski as a suspect, but i fail to see how exactly this is supposed to really attack that position. But maybe you can tell me, what argument here you find particularly strong?
@@Pawsk Firstly I think it's clear to anyone familiar with serial killer cases through history that an outwardly abnormal person like Kosminski is absolutely not logically viable as Jack The Ripper. Secondly it's blindingly obvious that the police didn't have a clue who the Ripper was or the type of person he was so their opinions are worthless and based on nothing but the prevailing mindset of the time, which we know today were outdated and misguided. Thirdly, Jack The Ripper wouldn't have been placed in Colney Hatch and Leavesden. The most infamous, brutal and terrifying killer of the times in Colney Hatch and Leavesden? No. Just no. The police bigwigs were merely trying to save the reputation of their profession. Nothing more.
All the criminial profiling that has been done on him based on known cases has shown him to be a very likely suspect. He grew without his mother in Whitechapel. He'd gone through the pogrom of Poland probably viewing violence and sexual violence at a very young age. He had an unstable home moving with frequency. Unsteady employment. He lived at 3 Sion Place, the epicentre of the killings. All the deaths fell in his geographic profiling area.
He was an adult in Whitechapel - being without a mother as an adult is not unusual. He didn't live a Sion Square at the time of any of the murders. He didn't move frequently. His lack of employment was due to mental illness. He was mentally unfit for work. This factor pretty much eliminates him as a repeat stealthy serial killer.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 So, at the time of the murders he didn't live at 3 Sion Square?? He was born around 1864/65 when he came to Whitechapel he was in about 1881/82, so he was 17, not exactly an adult. In 1890 he was admitted to Mike End workhouse giving his address as 3 Sion Square. He moved between there and 16 Greenfield St.
Mary Kelly would have known Jack the Ripper. Letting him into her house ? I don't think she would have let just anyone into her house. They would have had to look a person of means at least.
@@mikepotts2470she had literally asked Barnett to read her reports of the murders and was on her guard. No chance she brings a Jewish lunatic into millers court
I was thinking about this the other day. It's not certain that Kelly knew the murderer. It is possible. She was heard singing into the night. This implies being drunk - especially as a lot of people were almost continually drunk back then. A neighbour heard someone shout / cry murder. But this is not the only ripper crime scene where that occurred. But most tellingly, that window beside the door was broken. The murderer could of removed the rag, peered in to see Kelly laying on the bed, opened the door that was just a couple of feet from the window, whereupon Kelly might of heard something or felt a breeze and called out just as she was silenced. But it is of course all pure hypothesis.
@awotnot Hmmmm but why would JTR be going around peering through windows for victims though? His method was to find them on the streets, and plenty of women were still on the streets. There was a long gap between Eddowes and Kelly and people's guards had relaxed a bit. JTR wouldn't have needed to become a peeping tom. I suspect he was taken to Kelly's abode, not randomly spied on it. UNLESS of course he knew Kelly and where she lived so planned it out beforehand. Then your theory could be correct. Either way, Kelly isn't bringing somebody like Kosminski home.
My granddad was told by detective Abberline that Jack the ripper was Kosminski. He told him he didn't think Liz Stride was a victim of the ripper and said a woman who had been chopped up had been pulled out the Thames before the murders. That's why they closed the case after Mary Kelly was killed. My granddad and his brother had been raised in the workhouse in Hounslow, grandad was in the WW1as a sniper. Great uncle Tom was a bare knuckle fighter who would go round the pubs of London fighting. Abberline was a boozer. He said he personally and another policeman had taken kosminski to Colney Hatch asylum aftermary kellys murder. Abberline said the police fucked up. They were watching kosminski but he managed to kill again that's when it was decided to commit him to an asylum. I've thought about this overwhelming years.i think abberline was telling most of the truth but not quite all of it. Abberline was adrunk I think him saying they had messed up was not totally the truth. I think the cops did indeed get Jack the ripper into custody and I think they had nothing on him unless he confessed so they gave him a beating and killed him. That's why they knew to close the case and seal it. But that's just my take on it. My grandmother wouldn't believe what granddad told her: she was a republican and hated the royal family, she wouldn't have it that one of them wasn't involved and thats why it was shut, and hushed up. I belive granddad.
Sorry to disagree. I believe granddads story. But for I believe Abbeline? Not so much. I think the one thing everyone can be sure of is the police closed and sealed the case pretty soon after the last accepted murder. So they had to have known pretty conclusively that the murder spree was over. Serial killers are notoriously hard to catch, and much harder to prove it. They couldn't even tell animal blood from human at the time. So I think they got him and, accidently or otherwise, killed him. Kosminski or not, they knew. I always found it funny that my granddad said abberline, falling down drunk had said they fucked up. That's something police don't like to admit. To my mind, that is the clincher. They beat him to get a confession and he died of it and they hushed it up. How far up the cover up went, who knows. But you seem to be a researcher, it would be interesting to see if anyone died in police custody at the time, or who was arrested if possible. It might be a lead worth investigating.
@saydvoncripps The case was not closed for years as far as I know. It was still ongoing and later murders such as Alice McKenzie were thought of as Ripper murders at the time.
@@saydvoncripps I suspect the case was closed in 1892 because 1 There had been no obvious series of killings that the media tied to JTR for several years so the pressure was off. One off crimes that might be tied to him could be explained away as unrelated. 2 The police had come up with an internal theory or narrative(suicide; committed to an asylum) that satisfied the higher ups simply so that they could close the case and get away with it. In other words the top was very receptive to the idea of closing the case. And thus was duly supplied. 3 Policing is primarily about resource allocation and the higher ups love it when they can close a case and move those resources elsewhere. If it cant be solved then the next best thing is a plausible reason to suppose that there is closure (ie there wont be any more of this particular murder series). 4 The key variable in all of this is media/public/political pressure. Cos that affects the higher ups the most. Once the hue and cry died down the pressure was to close the case one way or another. And move on. And so they did.....the mcnaugtan memorandum is not a summary of a police investigation. Its a cover yer arse political document that explains why the case was close.
While recovering from a touch of gout, I just watched this episode. Thanks, Edward I found it most informative. For me his medical history is at odds with what appears to be a cool, calculating, yet deranged person. It is clear he had a plan - for example, to get no obvious blood on him; to kill in such a way that allows this. And if that did not work, he was cool enough to evade capture and clean himself up. So this for me does not fit a deranged person - a person that would most likely be caught covered in blood. So for me, I hate to say it, the killer was a predator - bent on his twisted mission - whatever that was. Anyway, thanks for the episode.
Great research and analysis. It does seem like the police at the time may have been overly concerned in looking for someone who had specific traits and profile. Which ultimately may have been to the detriment of the investigation.
Your research challenges given theories we are made to take for granted. This is brilliant in rigour and methodology. Thank you. The videos also provide visual details that enable the audience to appreciate the case you put to us.
Great stuff...Yes, Chiefs of Police and such love to PIN a suspect not to admit defeat! Still goes on ...a lot! .Really enjoy your work Sir. Thank You.
All the other keyboard ripperologists who are too lazy or perhaps in capable of doing this sort of film work are very jealous of Mr Stows work...well to be precise they are angry that he has reached millions of viewers and they almost all agree with his view.
Just out of curiosity, but is the general concencus, that Anderson and Swanson were straight up lying, or do people generally think that there was in fact a witnessidentification of JtR, but Anderson had no reason to be as convinced as he was?
I think the trend at the top was increasingly anti-Jewish rhetoric and that fact alone swayed their racist mindsets. It had to be a Jew. Whilst another Jew had to conceal the truth because he did not want to implicate his Jewish brethren. I think both men batted the ball between one another and between them they concocted the narrative. This is not say they were lying. Perhaps deluded would be a better word. They deluded themselves into thinking it must of been Kosminski because he was Jewish. Although I accept that I'm merely repeated Ed's words here. Another great upload btw Ed. Fascinating info.
Fascinating ❤ I worked at what was the retired policeman’s home in Portland Road in Hove when I was 16 as an auxiliary nurse, it was a nursing home then…..
Of course, the big police bosses would have hated to go down in history as having completely and utterly failed on this case. Even if it was years after the murders, there had to be some saving of face. I think that's why Anderson wrote what he did.
A new THoL video = a great start to the weekend! 😃 Did the police house-to-house search area reach as far as 22 Doveton Street? If so, I suppose they will have quickly moved on and not questioned the "normal, respectable, hardworking, English family man" who was head of that household.
Nay, nay and thrice nay ! (ooh missus !) Anderson had no previous experience of policing, and neither do I, so I think we’re both equally qualified and entitled to offer an opinion. He personified all that was “bumbling and bureaucratic” about the Police hierarchy of the time (a description which was to be inherited by men orchestrating the slaughter of the first war). In 1888 Kosminski fitted the bill but, as progress and knowledge are now revealing, it was the wrong bill. Not the crazed maniac, but the individual who you might notice least. Jack the Ripper “might” have been caught by chance by the “honest copper” on the beat but probably not by Andersons flimsy at best and, in my opinion, wide of the mark deductions. A very thorough and entertaining film which torpedoes Anderson’s and Swansons theories and ultimately the Kosminski theory.
It’s almost unthinkable that JTR was some crazed lunatic, wild-eyed and foaming at the mouth. Whilst he was certainly abnormal, he had to have been able to offer at least a veneer of plausibility, to engage with his victims, persuade them to go with him and then, slip away unnoticed thereafter.
Does anyone else ever get the idea that after 136 years, Edward and Christer are the only two people who've actually put any *real* research into this?
Think it was Michael Connor that picked up on Lechmere then dropped it because he was getting frenzied attacks from deniers. Edward and Christer certainly did pick up on it and bought Lechmere to where he is at today. Others to worried about getting abuse from other so called Ripperologist who cling on for dear life to their suspects.
I believe many people have put forth suspects they genuinely believe in and have done some great research. However, I believe Mr. Stow and Christer have put forth the most plausible version, with all due respect to their predecessors.
@@leejames1792Seems you are the one who is disrespectful. You should respect other people's suspects. You always have the choice to leave the room and shut the door behind you. Maybe this channel is a bit to sensitive for you.
The "homicidal maniac" who stands out from the crowd and kills himself out of self-loathing is a very Victorian caricature that has nothing to do with real serial killers. They are experts at seeming perfectly normal and take huge amounts of pride and joy in their acts. They never take their own lives, always give up without a struggle when caught, and always brag to anyone who will listen about every nasty detail. None of them ever really stops until he physically can't do it anymore. Some start up again years or decades after seeming to stop. They are true psychopaths who consider only their own pleasure and feel no guilt or empathy. Jack might have moved elsewhere, died, or been otherwise stopped, but he certainly didn't end himself in a satisfying little morality play like some Victorian version of a Shakespeare character.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407so much packed in. Most TH-cam channels would be at least double the length, with the same information, and a TV documentary would have to have 10 series of 8 episodes each, just for this one 50 min video. I commend your commitment to the truth, and when something is ambiguous, your deductive reasoning is virtually beyond reproach, imo.
Excellent work sir. While Kosminski is the "favorite" suspect theres too much about him that makes him unlikely to be JTR. Speaking from 25 yrs experience around criminals he just doesnt fit the crimes.
Gr8 Stuff Edward....Amazingly closed-minded were the Authorities,....Kosminski , Cohen & Kaminsky, maybe all of them the same person, not-likely to be JTR, as they didn't have their English Language Skills at a level where the Victims wud feel comfortable with them and go into an isolated place without being frightened of their appearance, as well....Kosminski was not dressed as a sailor, so the women wud have been wary of those with an accent that wasn't a sailor...More likely, JTR was someone the women had seen around the area before and did not feel threatened....If Kosminski murdered during lucid periods, highly unlikely that wud be the case, he wud have been caught by The Police who were everywhere when the murders occurred, as he wudn't have had escape plans, as U said, Edward........The Vigilance Groups about Whitechapel, like George Lusk's Committee, for sure wud have caught him, as well and I read Policemen were dressed as prostitutes to try and catch JTR, too.....Don't know how true that was, but the point is, JTR wud have been caught near a victim, if the perpetrator had a major mental illness...If any of the Letters to Police from JTR were written and sent by Kosminski, I doubt that he wud be able to do that with any plan.. The From Hell Letter, is likely to be the only one that is genuine and is not signed JTR, just 'catch me when U can Mishter Lusk', as it was sent to him not the Police....Kosminski and the DNA evidence has been rejected and the reality is Kosminski wudn't have been roaming the streets in Whitechapel, not knowing where he was and then murdering the women...The Beat Policemen wud have seen him and detained him, but this never happened...Cheers fm Damo🤔👍
When listening to people other than Stow and Holmgrem talk about this subject matter it genuinely seems to me like I’m listening to a bunch of amateurs. No offence meant, but seriously, it’s typically a continuous monologue of pure conjecture, filler and debunked theories in all other videos I have watched so far. I happily have an open mind to the suspect in this case as I’m not biased and have no reason to be - I’m happy to give any one suspect the time they deserve - but unlike the others, each and every big statement these gentlemen raise is backed up by a combination of real archival evidence combined with very well thought out, researched and logical arguments. Hats off to you Gentlemen for laying it down as straight as we could possibly know it thus far. I still can’t believe how other people can genuinely look themselves in the eye and say their ‘suspect’ is more plausible unless they are trying to sell copies of their book where it turns out they backed the wrong horse….
The accounts I have read make no mention of any siblings of Kosminski that the police were able to locate. He is not known to have ever lived with siblings, if he had any. HE lived in the barbershop where he was employed, doing only minor, unskilled tasks such as sweeping and washing the floor after hours, He was only very rarely allowed to cut a patron's hair. At one point he did get into a fight with another employee and threw a chair at him. His co-worker was injured, a broken arm I think, but recovered. It was after this incident that his employer contacted the asylum for the insane ask asked that Kosminski be committed. Kosminski raised no objections, and a local magistrate approved the employer's request. This was the beginning and end of Kosminski's "criminal career,"
Interesting, I always suspected Mr. Kosminski as being a chief suspect. Are there still Kosminski family members around today? I'd be interested in hearing their views. SUBSCRIBED
It will be interesting to see what students of Kosminsky will think of your efforts Ed. Its refreshing to have research such as this and, hopefully, it will lead to a better understanding of not only Kosminsky, but Ripperology. Detective William Thich (who I have researched in depth) openly reported that the police had absolutely no idea who the Ripper was. Thick was in close contact with Abberline both before and after the Whitechapel murders and took part in many houses to house enquiries.
I fear the response will be about Lechmere, instead of any attempt to address the problems with the Kosminski theory. That is my previous experience. Thick is an interesting character - in my view a good, on the ground copper, doing what was necessary to prevent, detect and solve 'normal' crime in the East End.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 Kosminski is indeed a popular suspect, have you any plans to do some of the other popular suspects such as Jacob Levy, Joseph Barnett, William Henry Bury, Joseph Barnett, George Hutchinson or Francis Thompson.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 Great, they all interest me to some degree (and that includes Lechmere) but my personal take is we simply cannot prove who JtR was, so I take the view I favour no one suspect over any other reasoned and reseached suspect. though I guess there are some that could be marked suffiently unlkely.
It's intellectually lazy to write off the Ripper as a sexual lunatic. He seems very accutely aware of the social and politicsl condition of the area at the time--and even exploited it, yelling "Lipsky" at an onlooker, causing the onlooker and another possible eyewitness to get spooked and run off. This was at the site of the first murder the night of the "double event." He seemed able to create illusion of actual purpose in case he was caught or interrupted. It was all planned, or roughly coreographed in his head. He was changing his wardrobe quite a bit and was aware enough of the vast population of the area to know to always have his back towards possible onlookers. He was acutely aware enough to create subterfuge. He knew the lighting was dim, etc... which also factors into the skill of his crimes. To be able to pull off his deeds so quickly and expertly in that poor lighting was incredible. I think he also realized how inept the police were, possibly that factored into his initial plan for even attempting such dastardly deeds. Apparently, there were parts of White Chapel that police wouldn't venture into without a partner or two.
Wonderful comprehensive analysis. I used to think Kosminski was the Likely culprit but Edward and Christer Holmgren have made me rethink this . Did I hear also that Kosminski spoke little or no English and came across as mad? If so how would he have convinced the women to go with him ? Edward and Christer make a very thorough and convincing case for Lechmere as the likely culprit
One of the most interesting parts in this video comes at 37:00 -- that people were supposed to give their real name in legal matters. It is obvious, of course, despite blabber from other Ripperologists, and Lechmere didn't do it. Another interesting question is this: _Why_ did Victorians so often hide themselves behind false names? In Whitechapel, it seems as almost everyone did it, even in their everyday lives.
The people we meet in.the Ripper tale aren't typical Victorians. They are often people from the bottom level of society among whom alternative names are more common. Lechmere wasn't from that class.
It's worthwhile to remember the ripper very probably woulda looked very plain , like serial killers do . "Is that him ?! " No way ?? , really?" would have been the likely response on his capture " The police didn't understand serial killers back then They were looking for overtly crazy people. The myth took over and helped hide him. I do believe it was lechmere aka cross and he should have been caught after nicholls or at least ruled out and interrogated . He cpuldnt believe his luck
Excellent work, as always! This case is a good example of "profilers" making assumptions that have no basis in facts or scientific evidence. As we see in other cases: Peter Sutcliffe, JJ DeAngelo, Gary Ridgeway and many others. They are not mad and are "The ideal/perfect family man". The authorities have no idea who they are investigating because they simply can't understand anything outside their own personal frame of reference. Often leading to the conviction of innocents. How many people have taken the fall and even given false confession, because an interrogator said "confess and we will stop."?
Thank God for modern science, (DNA and forensics) profiling is still a bit of a joke and confessions are still being coerced, but those are fewer and less frequent.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 Agree. They should coin a term for this investigation bias contamination. Like in the Yorkshire ripper case. They were fooled by a hoaxer "with a Jordie accent". Swamped with information. Many lessons were learned from that.
Ive always been interested in the idea pur forward by Martin Fido that David Cohen and Nathan Kaminsky were the same person. He certainly seemed to exhibit some of the personality traites one expect of a ripper suspect such as violent misogyny. If his name was mistaken for Kosminski then it could even explain how Aaron Kosminski was accidentally brought into the story. Maybe it was Nathan Kaminsky who was actually identified at the seaside home. I know you have touched on the David Cohen theory but has he been discounted beyond all reasonable doubt?
@thehouseoflechmere9407 I'm really enjoying working through your videos. The evidence for Charles Lechmere being the ripper seems compelling. If it was Lechmere, though, why did he suddenly stop killing, given that he didn't die until 1920?
Kinda funny they assumed that hating women meant he was a gay man, considering most straight serial killers hate women. Thank you for covering this, other documentaries don't really bring any context to why Kosminski should be discarded as the suspect.
I feel Kozminski is one of the least likely Ripper suspects of all. He was clearly suffering severely from his paranoid delusions, which caused him to have a pathological fear of washing and eating. My guess is that these fears would have been a problem for a serial killer who was known to remove the victim’s organs. Eventually, he would have had to find a way to get the blood off or he would have been caught.
I was under the impression that Kaminski sounded very similiar to Kominsky in 1880's London, and that led to the confusion. It seems that Kaminski's repertoire and timeline match very well with the events. I'm not totally convinced this Kaminsky isn't a good suspect. But, then again, I am of the belief that there was no Whitchapel serial killer and most of the cases were done by different men.
Obviously many have said that at the end of the day it could be a person totally off the radar. I'm not sure if Edward is ex-police but I've always wanted to know that in an average solved case where a pool of suspects was originally featured, the rough percentage of instances where the final accused was in that original set of suspects.
Most murders are easily solved as they are domestics or at least perpetrated by someone known to the victim. Serial killers generally aren't known to the victim which causes difficulties in establishing a viable suspect... and I'm not ex police!
I had read some basic stuff about Kosminski in connection with the Ripper murders and found him to be a plausible suspect, but your presentation evaluating the sources made me see the problems with him being the ripper. His mental illness sounded far too debilitating for him to be an effective serial murderer.
There's only two possibilities either Aaron kosminski is not the cause Minsky they were talking about, or they made one of the biggest blunders in history by thinking he was dead.
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This was about as comprehensive a deconstruction of a case against as it’s possible to conceive, Mr. Stow. I used to think Aaron Kosminski a viable suspect - not anymore. Excellent research and very cogently argued.
Thank you
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 Always a pleasure.
The rain they believed playing with one self was a sign of mental illness was because the Bible said it was. The Bible said this whom do it can only gain forgiveness by plucking out one's own eyes. Hence why so many Romans plucked it their eyes. It was one of the only ways to be removed from the African front. Because of its mental implications. If they couldn't control their own desires they weren't fit to be around others.
@@phillipstroll7385Fascinating motive. I hadn't heard that before
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 PLEASE APPLY THE SAME COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO A SEPARATE VIDEO ALL ABOUT THE "FROM HELL" LETTER. I love the level of research you do and I trust it. No one in my opinion has solely focused upon the "From Hell" letter only. I would love you to delve into everything about it as I believe without doubt that his is actually from JTR and the insight into his mind and frustrations are shown, cryptically I concede but nevertheless, if genuine (which I believe it to be) shows a great deal into the mindset of JTR. I want to know how the letter was delivered, my mail or hand delivered? The man it was delivered to; who was he and what impact could his committee have made on the streets of someone like JTR in terms of reduction of victims and opportunity. That letter to me smells of absolute frustration in that the writer feels cheated and angry about what that committee are doing on the streets a night to lower JTR prey availability and his fear himself of being caught as a result of that extra security being applied. On a separate note, one thing i did think of from watching your videos was how different the last victim was (Mary Kelly) from all the others. Substantially so in terms of age in particular. My understanding is that Lechmere had 12 children? Is it possible he had his fill with Kelly and therefore sated his desires given how in her case he was not rushed and got to do all the things he fantasized about? Is it possible he felt some guilt about her because he went so far, lost so much control and perhaps, she reminded him of his own daughter and his love for her/them caused him to stop? Just a thought but I think also worth investigating. Please do a video on the from hell letter though, I don't think you will ever get any closer to JTR than that letter.
It’s ironic his Andersons book came out in 1910 when Lechmere was still alive, I wander if he ever saw it or even read it, if he did he probably laughed inside.
Yes, never thought of that
No body no the fact.
This is what I like about your content, Edward, and your friend Christer Holmgren's: you not only put forth the evidence for Lechmere's guilt, you take pains to explain *why* the police missed him in the first place. With every other suspect, people are grasping at straws now, just as Swanson and Anderson were back then. That "it was the crazy Jewish immigrant from Poland" remains the most "mainstream" theory on the Ripper's identity is just mind-boggling to me.
If we can't even identify the correct Kosminski there's no way we can attribute the murders to him.
Yes, and it was a convenient patsy to blame somebody in an asylum. No more than that.
Shorts was most likely seen whilst in the act. Conjecture I know but think about this. A man sees Shorts in the act and shouts Lipski and Shorts panicking runs across the street from where a woman was later found murdered. He puts himself there!!. Worried he had been seen & identified. He goes straight to police to report himself a witness. The man who shouted Lipski never comes forward. Also man with pipe never identified. Police did thorough investigation. No man with pipe. Shorts could well be JTR. Kosminski easy scapegoat.
Just randomly got this recommendation from the algorithm, not a jack ripper guy.. don’t know anything about the case(besides that it was never solved)
Excited to check this series and I’m sure it will make it into my bedtime rotation, appreciate the content dude.
With 30 years of forensic psychiatric nursing experience I agree completely that while any one of the frenzied attacks could have been the result of someone in the depths of psychosis a series of such murders would suggest the complete opposite! To suggest someone with a severe disabling mental illness would then only murder during periods of mental stability when they would need to be a sadistic sexual psychopath is highly unlikely and I can think of no such cases.
Yes!
Totally agree. I'm an LVN, I've worked the last 32 years with Dementia, schizophrenic patients in a nursing home lockdown unit. I've been my schizophrenic brother's guardian since 1996. It's very unlikely JtR was a young schizophrenic.
Well, why wouldn't it be plausible that at the earlier stages of his life he was less insane and capable of this?
@@Makaveli_93 Males usually don't start developing symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia until around 18 years of age. Females are much younger when symptoms develop. Very few serial killers are schizophrenic.
@@Makaveli_93 Sloppy, unorganized, very impulsive. Kosminski couldn't hide his crazy in the daylight. What makes you think he'd get away with this? He can't even be placed at a crime scene. He could barely speak English.
Tony Blair repeated winston churchills words when he said
" kill one man you are a villian, kill a milion and you are a hero "
Stalin's quote "A single death is a tragedy a million deaths a statistic"
Top notch stuff as always Mr. Stow. Keep it coming!
Thanks, will do!
Love the snark mr.Stow! One day and one night to investigate six murders lol! Outstanding work as usual!
Ha - yes! Actually only half of one night!
Anderson got the ADL treatment by the sound of it.
Makes my month when House of Lechmere uploads! 👏 Many thanks and I look forward to watching 🤗🙌
Happy to hear that!
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 Great work and I look forward to the next one 👍
Mr. Stow I think many of us look forward to your content eagerly.
Greetings from across the pond!
Extremely interesting , liked and subscribed , thank you.
Thank you all!
It's amazing to me with all the notable "Ripperologists" out there, none of them agree on any suspect. I have to admit that's part of the reason I find all the research so interesting.
Aaron was JACK.
@@freddyfurrah3789No.
It’s because they alll want to be right.
@@freddyfurrah3789Evidence?
@noahbrock349 In 2019, they did DNA from the only remaining evidence of the crimes. The DNA tested back through ancestry with seven on the scarf to Aaron. People still argue it amd claim the scarf did not come from the crime scenes etc...but there you have it, DNA seminal fluid from him.
Thank you for visiting the locations and providing a "just the facts," style of narration. You are so good at this, should you conclude with your investigations, and you want to continue this style of reporting, please consider going through the Annotated Sherlock Holmes and discuss the real cases that inspired many of the Sherlock Holmes stories, perhaps in a second channel. I don't know if it's of interest to you, but even a tour of all the stories, inspired by true crime or not, would be extremely entertaining for a very large audience and you have the style of delivery that would make it thoroughly enjoyable.
Nice idea, but a hell of a lot of work for somebody not familiar with that topic. I don't know if Ed is or isn't but I think he has his hands full with the Jack The Ripper topic still.
The background information about the London police superiors on the case is totally fascinating. Rather than assuming they were experienced and knowledgeable cops, THOL has once again provided superb research that breaks these suppositions down. All of this still leaves Charles Lechmere as the strongest suspect IMO. Great video Mr Stow!
Agreed. Can't wait for Blomer to see this video 😂🤣
Indeed. How many times are we told by the Kosminski supporters that the bigwigs knew what they were doing and thus can't have been wrong? That's been their mantra.
The sad reality the upper police hierarchy were amateur buffoons.
Blomer is two faced. In one comment he once argued he doesn't rule out Lechmere from being a suspect... but then goes on to write books on how Lechmere wasn't a suspect. Wish the man would make up he's mind.
Hey Cat! in all fairness to Blomer, he’s trying to sell his crappy books and he can’t have the case being solved! lol
I believe jack was calm, cool, calculating, and intelligent. He was not mad just bad!
I believe that he was disorganized, reckless, and probably endowed with nothing more remarkable than a low animal cunning.
A cool and calculating person would never have risked to kill Stride and Chapman and probably also Eddowes and Nichols where JTR did. He only depended on luck to get away from the murdered Chapman and during the Stride murder he was probably even witnessed by two people. It was never in his hands to get away, he just took a chance and had tremendous luck. He did not even care to be discovered, otherwise he would not have risked those murders in first place. I don't say that JTR was totally insane, but I also don't think he was as normal as many think today. He was simply a slave of his drives when he was doing what he was doing and afterwards and in between he maybe functioned reasonably, like many people.
@@bendavies8881 Tend to agree.
@FrankMcCloud
We can argue he was definitely a cool and calculating customer to work out how much time he had in Mitre Square between police beats, and he was cool and clever enough to get the job done on time.
Little risk in the back yard of Hanbury Street in the dark when people were asleep in bed.
I don't think Schwartz saw JTR. He didn't even see Stride being murdered. JTR wouldn't have pulled a victim onto the street in full view of others and then shout at one of them. What Schwartz saw was likely nothing more than a drunk being approached by a lady of the night hawking herself and he took offence and reacted with violence. I dare say that must have been a frequent occurrence.
@@lyndoncmp5751 It seems very probable to me too that he always knew exactly the routes and time schedules of the policemen. Though it can't be totally excluded that he was simply extremely lucky.
I think the risk in Hanbury Street was tremendous. Not to meet police, but one of the many tenants who lived in the building and particularly were already awake preparing for work. And even if they were sleeping, it could have easily been that a scream of the victim or just some noises could have woken up some. And most of all, he was in a trap in this backyard, he could not have escaped had someone come and there was no way for him to exclude this possibility, so this was sheer luck in the end. He could also not have been sure to not be seen when escaping from there, when stepping through the corridor and out of the door.
As for Schwartz I think that the time frame was very narrow. Like in Bucks Row. Only a few minutes maybe and here the guy beating the woman would have needed to escape quickly while JTR must have already been around the corner. And the place was a very risky one too. Diemschütz could have arrived at any time and so could have someone left the building at any time.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! KEEP UPLOADING THEY ARE SO NICE! Now for real, you are the only person I know that keeps bringing new questions to this subject the others are just asking the same questions for no reason. It's not like they are going to ever solve the case by doing the same things over again.
Thank you! Will do!
no one suspected Lechmere because he was normal and i suspect he kept killing
Thousands of other "normal" people there at the time too.
Where any of them found standing next to a freshly slain corpse that showed signs that the culprit had been disturbed?
@@leejames1792Who were the thousands of people seen standing around Polly Nichols just killed dead body in Bucks Row? Answers on a postage stamp please.
Well, I was settled on kosminsky being the ripper until watching this very well done presentation.
Good!
Wow what an excellent, thorough and damning riposte to the entire Kosminski theory. I've not seen a more exhaustive video on Kosminski. Everyone who favours Kosminski must watch this and take great heed. I'll have to watch it again to take it all in. Well done to you Ed. Brilliant.
What I find incredible is the 'it would have been of no public benefit to reveal the identity of the killer' spiel. Seriously? No benefit for the public to know the most famous serial killer ever? How convenient of an excuse that was.
"They don't need to know so we don't need to tell them!". Oh my goodness 😂.
If they really knew they would have shouted it from the rooftops
@@thehouseoflechmere9407
They certainly would have done, if only to protect their own police reputation...."we got our man, here he is, this is his name" etc.
What exactly is it you feel is a riposte here?
I tend to favor Kosminski as a suspect, but i fail to see how exactly this is supposed to really attack that position.
But maybe you can tell me, what argument here you find particularly strong?
@@Pawsk
Firstly I think it's clear to anyone familiar with serial killer cases through history that an outwardly abnormal person like Kosminski is absolutely not logically viable as Jack The Ripper.
Secondly it's blindingly obvious that the police didn't have a clue who the Ripper was or the type of person he was so their opinions are worthless and based on nothing but the prevailing mindset of the time, which we know today were outdated and misguided.
Thirdly, Jack The Ripper wouldn't have been placed in Colney Hatch and Leavesden. The most infamous, brutal and terrifying killer of the times in Colney Hatch and Leavesden? No. Just no. The police bigwigs were merely trying to save the reputation of their profession. Nothing more.
@jannickfranck3864
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I like to review these researches. Thank you and good luck. ❤
Thank you for another great video Edward can't wait for the next one
Glad you enjoyed it
Always happy when a new video comes out to watch.
Your knowledge and attention to detail is amazing.
I can’t recall ever hearing the name ‘Sadler’ before!
Thank you very much!
Fantastic video once again can we applaud Ed on his incredible work and time he puts in to these videos always fascinating and so well put together!
Thank you
You have a real career as a researcher! Well done!!
Keep em coming bro another excellent job as always. Idk how I missed two new videos but I’m happy now I can binge em at work
All the criminial profiling that has been done on him based on known cases has shown him to be a very likely suspect. He grew without his mother in Whitechapel. He'd gone through the pogrom of Poland probably viewing violence and sexual violence at a very young age. He had an unstable home moving with frequency. Unsteady employment. He lived at 3 Sion Place, the epicentre of the killings. All the deaths fell in his geographic profiling area.
He was an adult in Whitechapel - being without a mother as an adult is not unusual.
He didn't live a Sion Square at the time of any of the murders.
He didn't move frequently.
His lack of employment was due to mental illness. He was mentally unfit for work.
This factor pretty much eliminates him as a repeat stealthy serial killer.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 So, at the time of the murders he didn't live at 3 Sion Square?? He was born around 1864/65 when he came to Whitechapel he was in about 1881/82, so he was 17, not exactly an adult. In 1890 he was admitted to Mike End workhouse giving his address as 3 Sion Square. He moved between there and 16 Greenfield St.
Some of the most compelling to-date I must watch again t y.
And again...
Mary Kelly would have known Jack the Ripper. Letting him into her house ? I don't think she would have let just anyone into her house. They would have had to look a person of means at least.
She could probably charge more for that ! Probably all it boils down to I’m afraid
@@mikepotts2470she had literally asked Barnett to read her reports of the murders and was on her guard. No chance she brings a Jewish lunatic into millers court
It would be interesting to investigate the connection. In a previous video I believe it was suggested that Lechmere could have known Kelly.
I was thinking about this the other day. It's not certain that Kelly knew the murderer. It is possible. She was heard singing into the night. This implies being drunk - especially as a lot of people were almost continually drunk back then. A neighbour heard someone shout / cry murder. But this is not the only ripper crime scene where that occurred. But most tellingly, that window beside the door was broken. The murderer could of removed the rag, peered in to see Kelly laying on the bed, opened the door that was just a couple of feet from the window, whereupon Kelly might of heard something or felt a breeze and called out just as she was silenced.
But it is of course all pure hypothesis.
@awotnot
Hmmmm but why would JTR be going around peering through windows for victims though? His method was to find them on the streets, and plenty of women were still on the streets. There was a long gap between Eddowes and Kelly and people's guards had relaxed a bit.
JTR wouldn't have needed to become a peeping tom. I suspect he was taken to Kelly's abode, not randomly spied on it. UNLESS of course he knew Kelly and where she lived so planned it out beforehand. Then your theory could be correct.
Either way, Kelly isn't bringing somebody like Kosminski home.
My granddad was told by detective Abberline that Jack the ripper was Kosminski. He told him he didn't think Liz Stride was a victim of the ripper and said a woman who had been chopped up had been pulled out the Thames before the murders. That's why they closed the case after Mary Kelly was killed.
My granddad and his brother had been raised in the workhouse in Hounslow, grandad was in the WW1as a sniper. Great uncle Tom was a bare knuckle fighter who would go round the pubs of London fighting. Abberline was a boozer. He said he personally and another policeman had taken kosminski to Colney Hatch asylum aftermary kellys murder. Abberline said the police fucked up. They were watching kosminski but he managed to kill again that's when it was decided to commit him to an asylum.
I've thought about this overwhelming years.i think abberline was telling most of the truth but not quite all of it. Abberline was adrunk I think him saying they had messed up was not totally the truth. I think the cops did indeed get Jack the ripper into custody and I think they had nothing on him unless he confessed so they gave him a beating and killed him. That's why they knew to close the case and seal it.
But that's just my take on it. My grandmother wouldn't believe what granddad told her: she was a republican and hated the royal family, she wouldn't have it that one of them wasn't involved and thats why it was shut, and hushed up. I belive granddad.
You should write that up and sell the story
Sorry to disagree. I believe granddads story. But for I believe Abbeline? Not so much. I think the one thing everyone can be sure of is the police closed and sealed the case pretty soon after the last accepted murder. So they had to have known pretty conclusively that the murder spree was over. Serial killers are notoriously hard to catch, and much harder to prove it. They couldn't even tell animal blood from human at the time. So I think they got him and, accidently or otherwise, killed him. Kosminski or not, they knew. I always found it funny that my granddad said abberline, falling down drunk had said they fucked up. That's something police don't like to admit. To my mind, that is the clincher. They beat him to get a confession and he died of it and they hushed it up. How far up the cover up went, who knows. But you seem to be a researcher, it would be interesting to see if anyone died in police custody at the time, or who was arrested if possible. It might be a lead worth investigating.
@saydvoncripps
The case was not closed for years as far as I know. It was still ongoing and later murders such as Alice McKenzie were thought of as Ripper murders at the time.
The case wasn't officially closed until 1892.
@@saydvoncripps I suspect the case was closed in 1892 because
1 There had been no obvious series of killings that the media tied to JTR for several years so the pressure was off. One off crimes that might be tied to him could be explained away as unrelated.
2 The police had come up with an internal theory or narrative(suicide; committed to an asylum) that satisfied the higher ups simply so that they could close the case and get away with it. In other words the top was very receptive to the idea of closing the case. And thus was duly supplied.
3 Policing is primarily about resource allocation and the higher ups love it when they can close a case and move those resources elsewhere. If it cant be solved then the next best thing is a plausible reason to suppose that there is closure (ie there wont be any more of this particular murder series).
4 The key variable in all of this is media/public/political pressure. Cos that affects the higher ups the most. Once the hue and cry died down the pressure was to close the case one way or another. And move on.
And so they did.....the mcnaugtan memorandum is not a summary of a police investigation. Its a cover yer arse political document that explains why the case was close.
Isn’t Kosminski the current Luton town fc goalkeeper?
While recovering from a touch of gout, I just watched this episode. Thanks, Edward I found it most informative. For me his medical history is at odds with what appears to be a cool, calculating, yet deranged person. It is clear he had a plan - for example, to get no obvious blood on him; to kill in such a way that allows this. And if that did not work, he was cool enough to evade capture and clean himself up. So this for me does not fit a deranged person - a person that would most likely be caught covered in blood. So for me, I hate to say it, the killer was a predator - bent on his twisted mission - whatever that was. Anyway, thanks for the episode.
And how is that gout feeling now?
@@Cami-kd4zl Thanks for asking. Took a few days, but came good. find fresh pineapple helps.
Great stuff and as always a real treat to listen to your research regarding the darker side of social and criminal history.
Thanks
Great research and analysis. It does seem like the police at the time may have been overly concerned in looking for someone who had specific traits and profile. Which ultimately may have been to the detriment of the investigation.
Excellent video. Also love how the guy uses a knife to point at the maps. Nice touch!
Outstanding approach to researching this subject. Exceptional 👏!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your research challenges given theories we are made to take for granted. This is brilliant in rigour and methodology. Thank you. The videos also provide visual details that enable the audience to appreciate the case you put to us.
Glad you like them!
Why would they take a suspect believed to be JTR to a common workhouse and not Broadmoor ? He must surely have been considered very dangerous?
Yes exactly
Hehe excellent point. Well played.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 are you still gonna write a book?
@@thedisabledwelshman9266
Yes!
Great stuff...Yes, Chiefs of Police and such love to PIN a suspect not to admit defeat! Still goes on ...a lot! .Really enjoy your work Sir. Thank You.
Absolutely love your attention to detail regarding facts. Liked & Subscribed, though I’m not convinced about your suspect……yet.
Much appreciated!
All the other keyboard ripperologists who are too lazy or perhaps in capable of doing this sort of film work are very jealous of Mr Stows work...well to be precise they are angry that he has reached millions of viewers and they almost all agree with his view.
Yes it's a worry for them.
This particular film has led to some nutty responses
@rdmountford3132 Totally agree.
Just out of curiosity, but is the general concencus, that Anderson and Swanson were straight up lying, or do people generally think that there was in fact a witnessidentification of JtR, but Anderson had no reason to be as convinced as he was?
I don't think they were lying. I think they convinced themselves but wrongly
@@thehouseoflechmere9407
@@thehouseoflechmere9407
Yes they had misguided beliefs, just as George Oldfield and co did in Yorkshire in the 1970s.
I think the trend at the top was increasingly anti-Jewish rhetoric and that fact alone swayed their racist mindsets. It had to be a Jew. Whilst another Jew had to conceal the truth because he did not want to implicate his Jewish brethren. I think both men batted the ball between one another and between them they concocted the narrative.
This is not say they were lying. Perhaps deluded would be a better word. They deluded themselves into thinking it must of been Kosminski because he was Jewish. Although I accept that I'm merely repeated Ed's words here.
Another great upload btw Ed.
Fascinating info.
How do we know that Anderson wasn't the ripper?
Fascinating ❤ I worked at what was the retired policeman’s home in Portland Road in Hove when I was 16 as an auxiliary nurse, it was a nursing home then…..
Approx 1985
Very interesting
Very interesting
BRILLIANT! Loved this! And now it puts to rest, in my mind, that Aaron Kosminski was Jack The Ripper.
He wasn’t.
@@OoxB505he was
Of course, the big police bosses would have hated to go down in history as having completely and utterly failed on this case. Even if it was years after the murders, there had to be some saving of face. I think that's why Anderson wrote what he did.
Agree
Great video Edward as always 👍🇮🇪
Thanks 👍
A new THoL video = a great start to the weekend! 😃
Did the police house-to-house search area reach as far as 22 Doveton Street? If so, I suppose they will have quickly moved on and not questioned the "normal, respectable, hardworking, English family man" who was head of that household.
No I provided a map of the search area which was the western half of Whitechapel and the Southern half of Spitalfields North of Whitechapel Road
@thehouseoflechmere9407 Thanks, just been back and had a look.
My boss is going to fire the employee with the worst posture. I have a hunch, it might be me.
42:30 “ in the Victorian period, mental illness and serial killing were both poorly understood”
That sums up the case against Kosminski
Nay, nay and thrice nay ! (ooh missus !)
Anderson had no previous experience of policing, and neither do I, so I think we’re both equally qualified and entitled to offer an opinion.
He personified all that was “bumbling and bureaucratic” about the Police hierarchy of the time (a description which was to be inherited by men orchestrating the slaughter of the first war).
In 1888 Kosminski fitted the bill but, as progress and knowledge are now revealing, it was the wrong bill.
Not the crazed maniac, but the individual who you might notice least.
Jack the Ripper “might” have been caught by chance by the “honest copper” on the beat but probably not by Andersons flimsy at best and, in my opinion, wide of the mark deductions.
A very thorough and entertaining film which torpedoes Anderson’s and Swansons theories and ultimately the Kosminski theory.
Great post. Nicely put.
It’s almost unthinkable that JTR was some crazed lunatic, wild-eyed and foaming at the mouth. Whilst he was certainly abnormal, he had to have been able to offer at least a veneer of plausibility, to engage with his victims, persuade them to go with him and then, slip away unnoticed thereafter.
Exactly
Does anyone else ever get the idea that after 136 years, Edward and Christer are the only two people who've actually put any *real* research into this?
That is a nonsense statement, plenty of experts on this case over the years, totally disrespectful.
@@leejames1792 "Totally disrespectful" to whom exactly? You?
Think it was Michael Connor that picked up on Lechmere then dropped it because he was getting frenzied attacks from deniers. Edward and Christer certainly did pick up on it and bought Lechmere to where he is at today. Others to worried about getting abuse from other so called Ripperologist who cling on for dear life to their suspects.
I believe many people have put forth suspects they genuinely believe in and have done some great research. However, I believe Mr. Stow and Christer have put forth the most plausible version, with all due respect to their predecessors.
@@leejames1792Seems you are the one who is disrespectful. You should respect other people's suspects. You always have the choice to leave the room and shut the door behind you. Maybe this channel is a bit to sensitive for you.
Another excellent video Ed.
Glad you enjoyed it
Definitely a lot of information.
Would you make more of an impact by organizing the presentation of the information?
The "homicidal maniac" who stands out from the crowd and kills himself out of self-loathing is a very Victorian caricature that has nothing to do with real serial killers. They are experts at seeming perfectly normal and take huge amounts of pride and joy in their acts. They never take their own lives, always give up without a struggle when caught, and always brag to anyone who will listen about every nasty detail. None of them ever really stops until he physically can't do it anymore. Some start up again years or decades after seeming to stop. They are true psychopaths who consider only their own pleasure and feel no guilt or empathy.
Jack might have moved elsewhere, died, or been otherwise stopped, but he certainly didn't end himself in a satisfying little morality play like some Victorian version of a Shakespeare character.
One of the most interesting documentaries on JTR. Much food for thought. Thank you for the video. From South Carolina. 😊😊😊
Thank you
@@thehouseoflechmere9407so much packed in. Most TH-cam channels would be at least double the length, with the same information, and a TV documentary would have to have 10 series of 8 episodes each, just for this one 50 min video.
I commend your commitment to the truth, and when something is ambiguous, your deductive reasoning is virtually beyond reproach, imo.
Excellent work sir. While Kosminski is the "favorite" suspect theres too much about him that makes him unlikely to be JTR. Speaking from 25 yrs experience around criminals he just doesnt fit the crimes.
Gr8 Stuff Edward....Amazingly closed-minded were the Authorities,....Kosminski , Cohen & Kaminsky, maybe all of them the same person, not-likely to be JTR, as they didn't have their English Language Skills at a level where the Victims wud feel comfortable with them and go into an isolated place without being frightened of their appearance, as well....Kosminski was not dressed as a sailor, so the women wud have been wary of those with an accent that wasn't a sailor...More likely, JTR was someone the women had seen around the area before and did not feel threatened....If Kosminski murdered during lucid periods, highly unlikely that wud be the case, he wud have been caught by The Police who were everywhere when the murders occurred, as he wudn't have had escape plans, as U said, Edward........The Vigilance Groups about Whitechapel, like George Lusk's Committee, for sure wud have caught him, as well and I read Policemen were dressed as prostitutes to try and catch JTR, too.....Don't know how true that was, but the point is, JTR wud have been caught near a victim, if the perpetrator had a major mental illness...If any of the Letters to Police from JTR were written and sent by Kosminski, I doubt that he wud be able to do that with any plan.. The From Hell Letter, is likely to be the only one that is genuine and is not signed JTR, just 'catch me when U can Mishter Lusk', as it was sent to him not the Police....Kosminski and the DNA evidence has been rejected and the reality is Kosminski wudn't have been roaming the streets in Whitechapel, not knowing where he was and then murdering the women...The Beat Policemen wud have seen him and detained him, but this never happened...Cheers fm Damo🤔👍
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What's crazy is how this happened all those years ago, and we still somehow know the names of a lot of the people who lived in the area.
When listening to people other than Stow and Holmgrem talk about this subject matter it genuinely seems to me like I’m listening to a bunch of amateurs. No offence meant, but seriously, it’s typically a continuous monologue of pure conjecture, filler and debunked theories in all other videos I have watched so far. I happily have an open mind to the suspect in this case as I’m not biased and have no reason to be - I’m happy to give any one suspect the time they deserve - but unlike the others, each and every big statement these gentlemen raise is backed up by a combination of real archival evidence combined with very well thought out, researched and logical arguments. Hats off to you Gentlemen for laying it down as straight as we could possibly know it thus far. I still can’t believe how other people can genuinely look themselves in the eye and say their ‘suspect’ is more plausible unless they are trying to sell copies of their book where it turns out they backed the wrong horse….
Thank you!
The accounts I have read make no mention of any siblings of Kosminski that the police were able to locate. He is not known to have ever lived with siblings, if he had any. HE lived in the barbershop where he was employed, doing only minor, unskilled tasks such as sweeping and washing the floor after hours, He was only very rarely allowed to cut a patron's hair. At one point he did get into a fight with another employee and threw a chair at him. His co-worker was injured, a broken arm I think, but recovered. It was after this incident that his employer contacted the asylum for the insane ask asked that Kosminski be committed. Kosminski raised no objections, and a local magistrate approved the employer's request. This was the beginning and end of Kosminski's "criminal career,"
Patiently waiting for Edward to rip apart the history chanels jack the ripper video on tumblety
I will do a film on Tumblety - an interesting character but zero chance of him being Jack the Ripper!
Brilliant video as always Ed, lot of work gone into that mate Kosminski wasn’t responsible for the JTR murders simple as that
Another thought..why does hardly anyone mention the coins left at one murder scene?
Really enjoying the videos in long form.
Sir Robert always said he knew who the ripper was........thanks for an informative video Edward
You are very welcome
Interesting, I always suspected Mr. Kosminski as being a chief suspect. Are there still Kosminski family members around today? I'd be interested in hearing their views. SUBSCRIBED
There are
Without question, this video puts the final nail in this Kosminski nonsense. Another great one.
Yes, hopefully the Kosminski nonsense will disappear or at least become a very outdated theory.
Lol kosmenski is jack there is a lof of evidence @@lyndoncmp5751
It will be interesting to see what students of Kosminsky will think of your efforts Ed. Its refreshing to have research such as this and, hopefully, it will lead to a better understanding of not only Kosminsky, but Ripperology. Detective William Thich (who I have researched in depth) openly reported that the police had absolutely no idea who the Ripper was. Thick was in close contact with Abberline both before and after the Whitechapel murders and took part in many houses to house enquiries.
I fear the response will be about Lechmere, instead of any attempt to address the problems with the Kosminski theory. That is my previous experience.
Thick is an interesting character - in my view a good, on the ground copper, doing what was necessary to prevent, detect and solve 'normal' crime in the East End.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 Kosminski is indeed a popular suspect, have you any plans to do some of the other popular suspects such as Jacob Levy, Joseph Barnett, William Henry Bury, Joseph Barnett, George Hutchinson or Francis Thompson.
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Yes!
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 Great, they all interest me to some degree (and that includes Lechmere) but my personal take is we simply cannot prove who JtR was, so I take the view I favour no one suspect over any other reasoned and reseached suspect. though I guess there are some that could be marked suffiently unlkely.
It's intellectually lazy to write off the Ripper as a sexual lunatic. He seems very accutely aware of the social and politicsl condition of the area at the time--and even exploited it, yelling "Lipsky" at an onlooker, causing the onlooker and another possible eyewitness to get spooked and run off. This was at the site of the first murder the night of the "double event." He seemed able to create illusion of actual purpose in case he was caught or interrupted. It was all planned, or roughly coreographed in his head. He was changing his wardrobe quite a bit and was aware enough of the vast population of the area to know to always have his back towards possible onlookers. He was acutely aware enough to create subterfuge. He knew the lighting was dim, etc... which also factors into the skill of his crimes. To be able to pull off his deeds so quickly and expertly in that poor lighting was incredible. I think he also realized how inept the police were, possibly that factored into his initial plan for even attempting such dastardly deeds. Apparently, there were parts of White Chapel that police wouldn't venture into without a partner or two.
Love your work mate.
Much appreciated
I really like your jacket sir, and your videos!
Glad to hear it!
You spelled his name wrong although it is literally in your thumbnail?
Wonderful comprehensive analysis. I used to think Kosminski was the
Likely culprit but Edward and Christer Holmgren have made me rethink this . Did I hear also that Kosminski spoke little or no English and came across as mad? If so how would he have convinced the women to go with him ? Edward and Christer make a very thorough and convincing case for Lechmere as the likely culprit
Yes his English seems to have been poor and he was overtly mad.
One of the most interesting parts in this video comes at 37:00 -- that people were supposed to give their real name in legal matters. It is obvious, of course, despite blabber from other Ripperologists, and Lechmere didn't do it. Another interesting question is this: _Why_ did Victorians so often hide themselves behind false names? In Whitechapel, it seems as almost everyone did it, even in their everyday lives.
The people we meet in.the Ripper tale aren't typical Victorians. They are often people from the bottom level of society among whom alternative names are more common. Lechmere wasn't from that class.
Thank you! I was just going to add some comment about Charles Cross, I mean Lechmere.
In a word, No. One of many police suspects with not a single shread of evidence against him. The true killer will never be known.
That was very well presented Good Sir
Thank you kindly
Kosminski was indeed Jack the Ripper.
If you are of another opinion, don’t be so lazy. State your case!
@@TheBeautifulWindsofAragonforensics proved it a few years ago.
@@TheBeautifulWindsofAragon semen and blood was on eddowes clothes
@@LonelyGamr Has there been DNA proof?
It's worthwhile to remember the ripper very probably woulda looked very plain , like serial killers do . "Is that him ?! " No way ?? , really?" would have been the likely response on his capture
" The police didn't understand serial killers back then
They were looking for overtly crazy people. The myth took over and helped hide him. I do believe it was lechmere aka cross and he should have been caught after nicholls or at least ruled out and interrogated . He cpuldnt believe his luck
Excellent work, as always! This case is a good example of "profilers" making assumptions that have no basis in facts or scientific evidence. As we see in other cases: Peter Sutcliffe, JJ DeAngelo, Gary Ridgeway and many others. They are not mad and are "The ideal/perfect family man". The authorities have no idea who they are investigating because they simply can't understand anything outside their own personal frame of reference. Often leading to the conviction of innocents. How many people have taken the fall and even given false confession, because an interrogator said "confess and we will stop."?
Thank God for modern science, (DNA and forensics) profiling is still a bit of a joke and confessions are still being coerced, but those are fewer and less frequent.
Most 'Ripperologists' don't understand anything outside their own frame of reference and still engage in fruitless 'hunt the looney' escapades.
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 Agree. They should coin a term for this investigation bias contamination. Like in the Yorkshire ripper case. They were fooled by a hoaxer "with a Jordie accent". Swamped with information. Many lessons were learned from that.
Ive always been interested in the idea pur forward by Martin Fido that David Cohen and Nathan Kaminsky were the same person. He certainly seemed to exhibit some of the personality traites one expect of a ripper suspect such as violent misogyny. If his name was mistaken for Kosminski then it could even explain how Aaron Kosminski was accidentally brought into the story. Maybe it was Nathan Kaminsky who was actually identified at the seaside home. I know you have touched on the David Cohen theory but has he been discounted beyond all reasonable doubt?
Yes!
@@thehouseoflechmere9407 ...fair enough 😄!
@thehouseoflechmere9407 I'm really enjoying working through your videos. The evidence for Charles Lechmere being the ripper seems compelling. If it was Lechmere, though, why did he suddenly stop killing, given that he didn't die until 1920?
Kinda funny they assumed that hating women meant he was a gay man, considering most straight serial killers hate women.
Thank you for covering this, other documentaries don't really bring any context to why Kosminski should be discarded as the suspect.
In this period they regarded Gay men as women haters. That was often how they described them in the absence of the word 'gay' in that context.
I feel Kozminski is one of the least likely Ripper suspects of all. He was clearly suffering severely from his paranoid delusions, which caused him to have a pathological fear of washing and eating. My guess is that these fears would have been a problem for a serial killer who was known to remove the victim’s organs. Eventually, he would have had to find a way to get the blood off or he would have been caught.
I've long thought Kosminski was the dude for the gig...
Eerie to think that HH Holmes and Jack the ripper once roamed this earth around the same time
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how about putting Anderson as the suspect
I was under the impression that Kaminski sounded very similiar to Kominsky in 1880's London, and that led to the confusion. It seems that Kaminski's repertoire and timeline match very well with the events. I'm not totally convinced this Kaminsky isn't a good suspect.
But, then again, I am of the belief that there was no Whitchapel serial killer and most of the cases were done by different men.
Virtually nothing is known of Kaminsky to allow any judgement.
Every. Single. Time.
The simplest answer to that question: YES!
Obviously many have said that at the end of the day it could be a person totally off the radar. I'm not sure if Edward is ex-police but I've always wanted to know that in an average solved case where a pool of suspects was originally featured, the rough percentage of instances where the final accused was in that original set of suspects.
Most murders are easily solved as they are domestics or at least perpetrated by someone known to the victim. Serial killers generally aren't known to the victim which causes difficulties in establishing a viable suspect... and I'm not ex police!
Why do you keep repeating the same quotes?
Oh - which ones?
I had read some basic stuff about Kosminski in connection with the Ripper murders and found him to be a plausible suspect, but your presentation evaluating the sources made me see the problems with him being the ripper. His mental illness sounded far too debilitating for him to be an effective serial murderer.
Was it true that the Kelly inquest was one of the shortest and if so Y
Yes one day
Thank you. Enjoyed very much.
Glad you enjoyed it
There's only two possibilities either Aaron kosminski is not the cause Minsky they were talking about, or they made one of the biggest blunders in history by thinking he was dead.
Have you heard of the claim that DNA, from a schal and via relatives, links Kosminski to the case?