Bad news, amateur Jack the Ripper enthusiasts. The Whitechapel mystery that gripped imaginations all over the world for 125 years has finally been solved. The results, though fascinating and unexpected, are a little disappointing.
Jack the Ripper never existed.
Even though there are over one hundred theories about the Ripper’s identity, that he never even existed seems to have never occurred to anyone before Trevor Marriott, a former murder squad detective with Bedfordshire police.
Marriott has spent 11 years reviewing the Ripper killings, and has gone deeper into Scotland Yard’s files than anyone before him. Using modern-day police techniques and forensic analysis, Marriott said that the reason there are so many theories about the Ripper’s identity is that the facts of the case have been distorted over the years.
“The general public have been completely misled by any number of authors and publishers,” Marriott said. “Jack is supposed to be responsible for five victims, but there were other similar murders before and after the ones attributed to him, both in this country and abroad in America and Germany.”
In total, Marriott estimates there were 17 unsolved Ripper-esque cases in England, Germany and America. Some have speculated that Jack the Ripper moved around and continued his crime spree, but Marriott suggested that the truth is much simpler.
“The reality is there was just a series of unsolved murders and they would have sunk into oblivion many years ago, but for a reporter called Thomas Bulling,” he said.
http://www.inquisitr.com/jack-the-ripper-mystery-finally-solved
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