Jill the Ripper?
The British press is reporting that an Australian scientist says he has partial DNA results from an original Jack the Ripper letter which indicate the Ripper may have been a woman.
Was Jack the Ripper a woman?
The notorious serial killer who stalked London’s East End, butchering prostitutes and terrorising the population, may not have been Jack the Ripper – but Jill.
An Australian scientist has used swabs from letters supposedly sent to police by the Ripper to build a partial DNA profile of the killer. The results suggest that the person who murdered and mutilated at least five women from 1888 onwards may have been a woman.
The American feminist establishment hypocritically demands “equality” while then propagating the idea that women are better than men, or less violent than men, or deserving of special treatment.
I argue that if women are to expect equal treatment, we had better perform accordingly, and at the very least recognize that woman are actually truly capable of what men are, including violence. While we have indeed been socialized differently than men and resort to violence less often, we certainly are not beyond the heinous. Just think Eileen Wurnos and Andrea Yates.
You probably know that there’s a cottage industry in the creation of Ripper theories, and of course the most outlandish theories periodically get trumpeted in the papers on a slow news day. I’m not claiming expertise, because I’m sure someone else will refute anything I say as being dead wrong. The police received a number of letters supposedly from Jack the Ripper. It’s my understanding that only one is considered likely to be real (that is, not a hoax), and it’s not the “Openshaw letter” from which this sample was taken. The “real” letter came early in the series of murders, and it wasn’t signed “Jack the Ripper”; it’s the “From Hell” letter. It enclosed a fragment of the kidney which appeared to match the missing kidney of the victim. There were a couple of the later letters, including this “Openshaw letter”, that seemed to have some insider knowledge of the crimes. However, there were suspicions that these could have been insider hoaxes. Who knows? As I recall, the leading theory was that the Ripper was someone named Montague Druitt, who was insane and died about the time the murders stopped. So it probably wasn’t the Duke of Clarence or Queen Elizabeth disguised as William Shakespeare.
Patricia Cornwell (Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed) spent over $1 million of her own money investigating, and believes it was artist Walter Sickert. An excellent book, though tough to read with detailed explanations of all the forensic research she did.
Where was Janet Reno in 1888?
[LOL!--ed.]
Yeah, I think Cornwell’s investigation/theory is probably the best out there.
if Jack is indeed Jill, then what will be thought of some movies like “Time After Time”?
“H.G. Wells has just invented a time machine but hasn’t tried it out yet. When he discovers that one of his friends is actually Jack the Ripper, Jack makes his escape using the time machine. Herbert follows Jack into the late 1970′s where he meets Amy, a bank clerk, who teaches Herbert about life in 70′s while they pursue Jack, who is enjoying the more violent society in which he continues his murderous activities.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080025/
Have you ever noticed that radical feminists often want to refer to God in the feminine, but never Satan?
Jack the Ripper looks an awful lot like Sheryl Crow. The career switch might be beneficial.
[Actually, she's more like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill :)--ed.]