Colorized Photo of Jack The Ripper's 5th Victim, Mary Jane Kelly

Spiritual · #41 ● 09-16-2015, 11:08 PM

I watched a documentary not long ago, on JTR. The most theorised is that he was a Belgian man who worked on a fishing/merchant boat. He apparently only stayed in England for a very short while, but before and after the JTR murders, there were similar murders that took place in Belgium. It's hard to say if this theory is true though, because JTR had very good penmanship and excellent english language skills which wouldn't be common for someone from Europe on a merchant ship. JTR also had access to expensive luxuries like absinthe and grapes, which at the time were reserved only for the most wealthy aristocrats of society. It was probably a doctor or maybe even an upper class citizen like a politician, rich people always have eccentric weird shit up their sleeves lol.

AliceInChains · #42 ● 09-18-2015, 04:22 PM

I'm curious, where did you hear he had access to absinthe and grapes? I've never come across that before.

Spiritual · #43 ● 09-21-2015, 12:19 AM

Originally Posted by AliceInChains ↗

I'm curious, where did you hear he had access to absinthe and grapes? I've never come across that before.

I think it was on a documentary I saw a long time ago. It said that one of the ripper victims was found in a yard with a stalk of grapes, however her autopsy revealed she didn't eat any grapes so its possible she was lured with them, killed, and then there murderer ate them and left the stalk at the crime scene to taunt police. He did that, he left weird little clues around London and liked to take the police for fools. He also supposedly had the ability to read and write in cursive handwriting , which back then in those days ment he was educated and middle-upper class.