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  Casebook: Jack the Ripper - The Royal Conspiracy
Knight makes great use of the infamous Ripper files held by Scotland Yard and the Home Office (not to be opened to the public until 1992 and 1993 respectively and a source of much speculation in 1978) but it is difficult to accept some of his conclusions.
Their theories, he says, are based on inaccurate copies of the MacNaughten papers and are thus worthless.
The conspiracy theory is a favorite among many people as a large number of them often have persecution complexes and do not trust the government.
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  Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to the serial killer active in the Whitechapel neighbourhood of London, England in the second half of 1888.
Theories involving a female murderer (dubbed Jill the Ripper), which was first thought of by Arthur Conan Doyle, and featuring a Royal conspiracy have also been advanced.
Jack the Ripper has featured in a number of films, novels and plays, either as the central character or in a more peripheral role.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jack_the_Ripper.html   (748 words)

  
 Jack The Ripper
Moore conducted exhaustive research on the Ripper mystery, as the annotations indicate, and then proceeded to construct a dramatic and fantastic tale, which he is careful to distinguish as speculative fiction.
Almost all serious Ripper researchers have repudiated or disproven the Knight theory, yet it remains the most beguiling because it purports to tie together motive, means, perpetrators, and victims in a neat package.
Jack the Ripper is often cited as the first of the modern phenomenon of serial killers.
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 Jack the Ripper Summary
Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area of London in the second half of 1888.
Author and conspiracy theorist Stephen Knight suggested that Juwes referred not to "Jews," but to Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum, the three killers of Hiram Abif, a semi-legendary figure in Freemasonry, and furthermore, that the message was written by the killer (or killers) as part of a Masonic plot.
Jack the Ripper has been featured in a number of works of fiction, either as the central character or in a more peripheral role.
www.bookrags.com /Jack_the_Ripper   (4248 words)

  
 Jack the Ripper
According to this theory, Gull identified the women who knew Prince Eddy’s secret, offered them carriage rides (which they accepted, believing they were being hired for prostitution services), murdered them in the carriage, mutilated their bodies in ritualistic ways, and dropped the bodies in selected locations.
The Ripper and the Royals, by Melvyn Fairclough (Duckworth, London, 1991).
Jack the Ripper is the name applied to the murderer or murderers, never caught, of several prostitutes in London in 1888.
www.bessel.org /ripper.htm   (3643 words)

  
 Jack the Ripper royal conspiracy theories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another rumour even claimed Gull was Jack the Ripper, even though by the time of the murders he had had multiple strokes and could barely walk, much less carry out violent murders.
Even if, as has been alleged, a conspiracy of the British establishment could somehow have falsified evidence to suggest that he was out of London when he really was there, his location in Balmoral was witnessed by large numbers of servants on the estate.
Casebook: Jack the Ripper - The Royal Conspiracy Debunks Knight's theory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_the_Ripper_royal_conspiracy_theories   (2713 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Complete History of Jack the Ripper: Books: Philip Sugden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Sugden concludes that none of the prime suspects was the Ripper, except perhaps George Chapman.
Rather, he painstakingly sifts through press clippings and police records to dispel misinformation, much of it stemming from police refusal to release information to the newspapers, as a result of which the press published rumors as facts, which were subsequently used by researchers as the basis of their books.
Whereas most Ripper books begin with a conclusion and are written with the arbitary purpose of convincing us that the author has identified the Ripper, this book actually saves the conclusion to the end.
www.amazon.ca /Complete-History-Jack-Ripper/dp/0786709324   (2443 words)

  
 Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper: the Definitive History is the one book to which people will turn for the facts behind one of the most infamous and grisly episodes of the Victorian era.
The Diary of Jack the Ripper (1993) VHS Reading from the infamous murderer's diary, a macabre record of obsession, horror and madness, Jack the Ripper's own words are the basis for this dramatized analysis, overturning all previous theories and investigations.
Conspiracy theories abound and suspects literally range from British Royalty to the lowest of the low, from native East Enders born within the sound of Bow Bells to an American "Quack" Doctor who regularly visited the streets of White Chappel.
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 Jack the Ripper
According to this theory, Gull identified the women who knew Prince Eddy’s secret, offered them carriage rides (which they accepted, believing they were being hired for prostitution services), murdered them in the carriage, mutilated their bodies in ritualistic ways, and dropped the bodies in selected locations.
Jack the Ripper is the name applied to the murderer or murderers, never caught, of several prostitutes in London in 1888.
Knight's theory, in sum, was a colossus built on sand." Sugden also ridiculed Melvyn Fairclough's attempt in 1991 to support Knight's theory by saying skin was removed from Mary Kelly's right thigh as a reminder of the "naked" knee in Masonic initiations.
bessel.org /ripper.htm   (3643 words)

  
 List of proposed Jack the Ripper suspects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of proposed suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders that took place in London, England, during 1888 (and perhaps other years, depending upon which victims were killed by the same hand).
Tumblety was mentioned as having been a Ripper suspect by a member of the Metropolitan Police in a letter to a journalist many years after the murders, but this official was not known to have been directly connected to the Ripper investigation.
He was still imprisoned at the time of the Ripper murders, but some authors have suggested that he could have bribed officials and left the prison before his official release or that he left a look-alike to serve the prison term in his place.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_proposed_Jack_the_Ripper_suspects   (3841 words)

  
 SUSPECTS
The Identity of Jack the Ripper – Donald McCormick.
Another member of the Royal Conspiracy Theory (and popular movie Ripper), Gull was the royal physician and treated Prince Edward for typhus.
A theory, developed at the time of the murders, was that The Ripper was actually a woman.
www.holmesonscreen.com /RipperSuspects.htm   (1575 words)

  
 Jack The Ripper Suspect - William Withey Gull
In 1847 he was elected Fullerian professor of physiology in the Royal Institution, retaining the post for the usual three years, and in 1848 he delivered the Gulstonian Lectures at the College of Physicians, where he held every important office except president.
His papers were printed chiefly in Guys Hospital Reports and in the proceedings of learned societies: among the subjects he wrote about were cholera, rheumatic fever, tenia, paraplegia, and abscess of the brain, while he distinguished for the first time (1873) the disease now known as myxoedema, describing it as a cretinoid state in adults.
Inconsistencies in the circumstances surrounding Gulls death, and the fact that his Will was probated twice, gave rise to the theory that Gulls death had been faked by his family, who then placed him in an insane asylum under the name Thomas Mason in order to hide the fact that Gull was the Ripper.
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 List of proposed Jack the Ripper suspects - WikiLeasing.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tumblety was mentioned as having been a Ripper suspect by a member of the Metropolitan Police in a letter to a journalist amny years after the murders, but this official was not known to have been directly connected to the Ripper investigation.
He was first mentioned as part of one of the many royal conspiracy theories and then named as the sole Ripper by aathor Jean Overton Fuller.
The crime novelist Patricia Cornwell later claimed in her book ''Portrait of a Killer'' that Sickert was the Ripper based largely on what she sees as misogyny in his art and her belief that the taunting letters caiming to be from the killer were written by him.
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 From Hell
From Hell is a graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell speculating upon the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper.
From Hell takes as its premise Stephen Knight's theory that the murders were part of a conspiracy to conceal the birth of an illegitimate royal baby fathered by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence.
Moore compares the multitude of increasingly outlandish Ripper theories to a Koch snowflake, where a finite, fixed location, event and era (London, in late 1888) can have an infinite number of nooks and crannies.
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 Jack The Ripper: From Hell
Moore conducted exhaustive research on the Ripper mystery, as the annotations indicate, and then proceeded to construct a dramatic and fantastic tale, which he is careful to distinguish as speculative fiction.
The murderer was popularly referred to as "Jack the Ripper," based on the name signed to two taunting missives sent to the Central News Agency in the midst of the mayhem.
Jack the Ripper is often cited as the first of the modern phenomenon of serial killers.
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 Jack the Ripper royal conspiracy theories - Japan
The various theories that the Duke of Clarence either was the Ripper, or prompted others to perform the murders to cover up alleged misdeeds, have been comprehensively dismissed.
The first reference to the Duke of Clarence as a Ripper suspect appears to be in 1962, when Philippe Jullien author of Edouard VII, a biography of Prince Albert's father, made a passing reference to rumours suggesting that Prince Albert and the Duke of Bedford were responsible for the murders.
Even if, as has been alleged, a conspiracy of the British establishment could somehow have falsified evidence to suggest that he was out of London when he really was there, his location in Balmoral was witnessed by large numbers of servants on the estate.
jack-the-ripper-royal-conspiracy-theories.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Jack_the_Ripper_royal_conspiracy_theories   (3213 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Reviews for The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper (Mammoth): Books: Nathan Braund   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Every armchair detective in the world has his pet theory as to who the killer was and why he was compelled to slash to death women in the dead of night.
Peter Turnbull states bluntly: "Jack the Ripper was not a man: he was a myth." On the other hand, A.P Wolf has an article titled "Jack the Myth" in which a favorite candidate is promoted.
In the end, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper is a perfect read for either the Ripperologist or anyone who has had an interest in the Whitechapel murders of 1888 which continue, to this day, to be unsolved.
www.amazon.com /Mammoth-Book-Jack-Ripper/dp/customer-reviews/185487537X   (2195 words)

  
 Jack the Ripper
Many Holmes fans are intrigued by the Ripper crimes, which occurred when the great detective was at the peak of his powers.
The Diary of Jack the Ripper - Shirley Harrison
A psychological study of Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) as the Ripper.
www.holmesonscreen.com /libraryripper.htm   (517 words)

  
 Jack The Ripper - Britmovie - British Film Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jack the Ripper has probably featured in more films than Gladys Henson, but I’ve yet to find out which film is the definitive Jack the Ripper story based on the Scotland Yard case file.
The importance of grapes in the actual Ripper investigation being merely to ascertain whether said witness was mistaken or not.
For a number ofyears I was fascinated by the Jack the Ripper case.
www.britmovie.co.uk /forums/british-films-chat/2855-jack-ripper.html   (1779 words)

  
 Serial Killers - Jack the Ripper
There have been countless theories as to the identity of Jack The Ripper ranging from the improbable to the impossible.
The conspiracy that surrounds this case is akin to the Kennedy assassination.
Due to the lack of forensic science at the time of the killings, and the fact that detection methods were very different from that of today, I believe that a lot of the evidence was lost or corrupted.
www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/12/ripper.htm   (797 words)

  
 conspiracy jack ripper royal theory
Casebook: Jack the Ripper - On the Origins of the Royal Conspiracy...
Colin for lunch and related his theory that Edward, the Duke of Clarence, was Jack the Ripper.
Dissertations: On the Origins of the Royal Conspiracy...
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 Jack Proposed Ripper Suspect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This is a list of proposed suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders that took...
Jack the Ripper royal conspiracy theories: Information From...
Jack the Ripper, a faceless predator whose infamy and guile would be renowned and
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 K.A.W. PRESENTS
K.A.W. Of all the theories as to the true identity of Jack the Ripper, the most bizzare involves a complex conspiracy involving the royal family and freemasonry.
The allegation is that the grandson of Queen Victoria fathered a child out of wedlock with a commoner, and the masons were enlisted to coverup a possible scandal that might have brought down the monarchy.
While conspiracy buffs have fingered Freemasonry for everything from Mozart's "murder" to the assassination of President Kennedy and plots for world domination, their evidence is invariably flimsy.
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 Jack The Ripper
Apart from a theory put forth by Stephen Knight, the crimes are accepted as those of a sexually psychotic killer.
Knight says that the killings were not random or sexually motivated, but were in fact a cover-up for 'oops-like' behaviour by Queen Victoria's nephew, and son of future king Edward VII, 'Eddy', the Duke of Clarence.
The Ripper murders were very 'hands on' and he, no doubt, derived sexual satisfaction from that intimacy.
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 Jack the Ripper: Case Study - An In Depth Look at the Royal Conspiracy Theory - free Suite101.com course
Joseph Sickert made a statement at the ending of the book that it was possible Stephen Knight was correct about his father's involvement in the murders because his father appeared to know too much about the crimes not to have been in on them first-hand.
Though Dr Gull has been considered a Ripper suspect, he was 71 in 1888, had suffered a stroke and was severely disabled at the time of the crimes.
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution by Stephen Knight This is a very interesting book and I would recommend it if you can get a copy.
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 Learn History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Jack the Ripper was and still is, the most well-known and notorious serial killer in history.
The Ripper's victims were from the poorest and most vulnerable in London's population.
Jack the Ripper - a nice simple site about the murderer.
www.learnhistory.org.uk /ripper.htm   (314 words)

  
 Does this painting by Walter Sickert reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper? | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Even in the context of the crackpot conspiracy theories, elaborate frauds and career-destroying obsessions that London's most grisly whodunnit has spawned, Cornwell's investigation is extreme.
Not only did she have one canvas cut up in the vain hope of finding a clue to link Sickert to the murder and mutilation of five prostitutes, she spent £2m buying up 31 more of his paintings, some of his letters and even his writing desk.
Although Cornwell failed to find any DNA on letters held by Scotland Yard, written by a man purporting to be the Ripper, to compare with samples taken from Sickert's desk and canvasses, she claimed to have made one breakthrough.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,615413,00.html   (854 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion: Books: Stewart P. Evans,Keith Skinner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Its extensive 650-plus pages are refreshingly free of wild-eyed speculation about the Ripper's identity, whether it be within the royal family, London's medical community, or the many other places would-be detectives have plucked suspects from for the last hundred years.
"The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion", on the other hand, is one of those books for more advanced Ripper buffs for whom the countless facts in it are both invaluable and digestible thanks to the more fundamental knowledge they've already gained from other Ripper books.
This is how Jack the Ripper may have gone undetected just before and after his crimes.
www.amazon.ca /Ultimate-Jack-Ripper-Companion/dp/0786707682   (2134 words)

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