How Brown
06-15-2009, 06:25 AM
The Forums thanks Debbie D for her help with another set of questions:kiss:
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1. Who are/is the most influential Ripperologist(s) to you in terms of how you approach the Case at this point in time? If possible,please elaborate on how they/he/she have influenced you.
I would have to say first and foremost are Mr. Evans and Mr. Skinner. Letters from Hell was really how I got started. Later, after I got a good grasp of the handwriting in the various letters, I began investigating the crimes in their other wonderful books. The beautiful, detailed, closeup images in LFH were invaluable to me when I researched ripper related writings. I appreciate SPE's decades of dedication to the field, the mounds of papers, letters, facts, finds and research. Second only to SPE and KS, is none other than you, Mr. Brown. This site alone has brought me together with others of similar interest, educated me in so many areas about the case, and allowed me the freedom to express myself on various ripper issues. When I need information this is where I go. Maintaining this site and maintaining high morale is tough enough yet you still find time to do your own research... I tip my hat to you Mr. Brown.
2. What is the one suspect out of the current crop that has been underresearched in your view?
I actually have two in mind. Without a doubt they are Tumblety and RDS. I have no doubt that both of these men left behind miles and miles of paper trails just waiting to be rediscovered. Are these two the best suspects? It depends on who you ask, but no doubt in my mind the most underresearched despite the fact we already know so much about them.
3. Do you believe that Jack The Ripper was arrested and released at some point during the period of time between August and November of 1888?
No. I don't think for one minute that he was arrested during this time. Jack had to be "normal enough" to make it in the world unnoticed.
4. Which option do you favor? A....that the Ripper simply stopped. or B....that the Ripper met a well deserved fate of incarceration for amother crime or died.
Killers like Jack just don't up and stop. I feel choice B best describes the end. He was either incarcerated, incapacitated, began killing someplace else or was dead. My career has afforded me the opportunity to talk with many people of varrying walks of life. I've talked to murderers, and one who I felt (if he was allowed to go free) would no doubt kill again and again and again. It was fascinating and yet hair raising to talk with this person.... he seemed so "normal". It was so difficult to imagine the man I was talking to had killed a woman and child, stuffed them in a non-working freezer and drove them around town in the back of his van for weeks before being discovered. He did admit to tasting the blood of the woman (see question 5) because he wanted to feel her inside of him. If anyone of you ever have the opportunity to work around criminals or interview them (especially violent felons), I highly recommend it. That is, if you are physically and mentally capable of handling it. The experience is priceless and not available in any book or video.
5. Have you an explanation for what the Ripper did with the organs he removed? More than one possibility? Please elaborate.
I feel Jack ate them or at the very least took a taste. Possibly cutting them up and using them in recipes. If Jack had anyone living with him, I woudn't put it past him to cook it up in a pot of stew or the like and feeding it to his unsuspecting family or friends. I don't think they were kept in jars or as trophies as I did when I first began studying this case.
Thank you for the questions, Sor.:kiss:
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1. Who are/is the most influential Ripperologist(s) to you in terms of how you approach the Case at this point in time? If possible,please elaborate on how they/he/she have influenced you.
I would have to say first and foremost are Mr. Evans and Mr. Skinner. Letters from Hell was really how I got started. Later, after I got a good grasp of the handwriting in the various letters, I began investigating the crimes in their other wonderful books. The beautiful, detailed, closeup images in LFH were invaluable to me when I researched ripper related writings. I appreciate SPE's decades of dedication to the field, the mounds of papers, letters, facts, finds and research. Second only to SPE and KS, is none other than you, Mr. Brown. This site alone has brought me together with others of similar interest, educated me in so many areas about the case, and allowed me the freedom to express myself on various ripper issues. When I need information this is where I go. Maintaining this site and maintaining high morale is tough enough yet you still find time to do your own research... I tip my hat to you Mr. Brown.
2. What is the one suspect out of the current crop that has been underresearched in your view?
I actually have two in mind. Without a doubt they are Tumblety and RDS. I have no doubt that both of these men left behind miles and miles of paper trails just waiting to be rediscovered. Are these two the best suspects? It depends on who you ask, but no doubt in my mind the most underresearched despite the fact we already know so much about them.
3. Do you believe that Jack The Ripper was arrested and released at some point during the period of time between August and November of 1888?
No. I don't think for one minute that he was arrested during this time. Jack had to be "normal enough" to make it in the world unnoticed.
4. Which option do you favor? A....that the Ripper simply stopped. or B....that the Ripper met a well deserved fate of incarceration for amother crime or died.
Killers like Jack just don't up and stop. I feel choice B best describes the end. He was either incarcerated, incapacitated, began killing someplace else or was dead. My career has afforded me the opportunity to talk with many people of varrying walks of life. I've talked to murderers, and one who I felt (if he was allowed to go free) would no doubt kill again and again and again. It was fascinating and yet hair raising to talk with this person.... he seemed so "normal". It was so difficult to imagine the man I was talking to had killed a woman and child, stuffed them in a non-working freezer and drove them around town in the back of his van for weeks before being discovered. He did admit to tasting the blood of the woman (see question 5) because he wanted to feel her inside of him. If anyone of you ever have the opportunity to work around criminals or interview them (especially violent felons), I highly recommend it. That is, if you are physically and mentally capable of handling it. The experience is priceless and not available in any book or video.
5. Have you an explanation for what the Ripper did with the organs he removed? More than one possibility? Please elaborate.
I feel Jack ate them or at the very least took a taste. Possibly cutting them up and using them in recipes. If Jack had anyone living with him, I woudn't put it past him to cook it up in a pot of stew or the like and feeding it to his unsuspecting family or friends. I don't think they were kept in jars or as trophies as I did when I first began studying this case.
Thank you for the questions, Sor.:kiss: