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It looks like this is a new/old hot topic right now. Were the C-5 actively soliciting when they were killed? I used to be interested in identifying JtR and I thought about a lot of different scenarios that led to the murders. I felt some of the women were not soliciting when they were attacked and if another pattern could develop, we might find Jack.
We know at least three of the five were desperate for money on the night/mornings they were killed. Polly, Annie and Kate did not have shelter for the night. Mary Kelly was probably under pressure to pay the rent the next day. We don know about Liz; she had earned a few pennies during the day but she had also had a restaurant meal.
One reason I question whether at least Polly and Annie were soliciting is because no one ever came forward to say the women had approached any man. Part of the mystery in the case, at least the way authors write it, is that Polly and Annie disappeared into the dark night and were never seen alive again.
Both Polly and Annie had made remarks that they would soon earn their doss money. At least Polly had the opportunity to return to the boarding house to bunk with a friend but she turned down the offer. Was she determined to earn her way or did she have something else planned?
Another factor that makes me question active solicitation is that three of the murders seem to have happened long after the pubs closed. How available would potential clients have been around 3:00 AM or later?
(Or maybe Polly and Annie simply did not earn enough for a doss, so they slept rough.)
I wonder and have asked before, if there was a man who sometimes loaned a little money to desperate women? Catherine Eddowes seemed to have a destination in mind after she left gaol. Pizer, though not JtR, was accused of being rough with unfortunates. Might there have been another man something like Pizer who could be counted on for a few pennies when a woman was desperate?
Annie and Kate were killed near markets which were setting up. Mary was killed on the morning of Lord Mayor´s Day so I would assume some vending would have been happening. Did they know someone who could be practically guaranteed to give/lend them a few pennies in exchange for a bit of work or something other than their bodies? (Some of us are very interested in men with odd gaits or who limped. Might there have been a crippled man who needed help? For that matter, as I remember, Pizer had an odd gait? So someone like Pizer?)
There must be other possibilities? If the women were not soliciting due to the late hour or other factors, what was their Plan B to raise a few pennies for survival?
(I have not thought about this for a long time because I lost interest in finding Jack. Enough modern serial killers have been caught and have talked and they have nothing worth hearing. Their reasoning, if they have any introspection at all, is so sickening that no mentally healthy person wants to hear it. I doubt JtR was any different and he likely blamed his victims for causing him to kill. My original interest in serial killers was, ¨WHY¨? They are all similar and their answers make no sense.)
We know at least three of the five were desperate for money on the night/mornings they were killed. Polly, Annie and Kate did not have shelter for the night. Mary Kelly was probably under pressure to pay the rent the next day. We don know about Liz; she had earned a few pennies during the day but she had also had a restaurant meal.
One reason I question whether at least Polly and Annie were soliciting is because no one ever came forward to say the women had approached any man. Part of the mystery in the case, at least the way authors write it, is that Polly and Annie disappeared into the dark night and were never seen alive again.
Both Polly and Annie had made remarks that they would soon earn their doss money. At least Polly had the opportunity to return to the boarding house to bunk with a friend but she turned down the offer. Was she determined to earn her way or did she have something else planned?
Another factor that makes me question active solicitation is that three of the murders seem to have happened long after the pubs closed. How available would potential clients have been around 3:00 AM or later?
(Or maybe Polly and Annie simply did not earn enough for a doss, so they slept rough.)
I wonder and have asked before, if there was a man who sometimes loaned a little money to desperate women? Catherine Eddowes seemed to have a destination in mind after she left gaol. Pizer, though not JtR, was accused of being rough with unfortunates. Might there have been another man something like Pizer who could be counted on for a few pennies when a woman was desperate?
Annie and Kate were killed near markets which were setting up. Mary was killed on the morning of Lord Mayor´s Day so I would assume some vending would have been happening. Did they know someone who could be practically guaranteed to give/lend them a few pennies in exchange for a bit of work or something other than their bodies? (Some of us are very interested in men with odd gaits or who limped. Might there have been a crippled man who needed help? For that matter, as I remember, Pizer had an odd gait? So someone like Pizer?)
There must be other possibilities? If the women were not soliciting due to the late hour or other factors, what was their Plan B to raise a few pennies for survival?
(I have not thought about this for a long time because I lost interest in finding Jack. Enough modern serial killers have been caught and have talked and they have nothing worth hearing. Their reasoning, if they have any introspection at all, is so sickening that no mentally healthy person wants to hear it. I doubt JtR was any different and he likely blamed his victims for causing him to kill. My original interest in serial killers was, ¨WHY¨? They are all similar and their answers make no sense.)
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