Hi all
Thought I'd start a thread following some discussion about Jimmy Saville (Not that I'm interested in him) but clearly he was a sexual preditor who appears to have moved about a lot, committed crimes over his life time and committed crimes at the various locations he was staying at.
This seems fairly typical of the Serial killers I have studied. They move out from there base usually in a 360 degree spread and commit attacks at random heading back to the safety of there home.
I have only come across one exception Colin Ireland, who travelled from Southend to a Gay club in Barking to pick up his victims. And this seems largely influenced by the lack of other similar places at that time.
But by and large Serial killers DONT get on a train or plane travel to a single specific location, kill only in that location and head long distances back to another location as a base.
Serial killers covert and kill what they see, they do it all their lives (I accept there appears to be evidence of some serial killers laying dormant for periods of time) But they kill over wide areas only if they themselves have travelled or moved to a different area.
So what I'm concluding here is that Ripper theories can be put into two camps. The Jack lived at the heart of the Murders Camp (And the only one which makes any sense to me)
and the Jack travelled from outside and killed only in the Eastend camp. Which clearly makes no sense what so ever and would dis-count around 95 to 98% of all the suspect who have been put forward as JtR.
Of course there are a few flies in that statement including Carry Brown. But I wonder given what is known about serial killers and sexual preditors today, if we should just cut from our thinking anyone not actually living in Whitechapel at the time of the murders. And anyone who moved away from Whitechapel and had opportunity and didnt kill after the murders.
Yours Jeff
Thought I'd start a thread following some discussion about Jimmy Saville (Not that I'm interested in him) but clearly he was a sexual preditor who appears to have moved about a lot, committed crimes over his life time and committed crimes at the various locations he was staying at.
This seems fairly typical of the Serial killers I have studied. They move out from there base usually in a 360 degree spread and commit attacks at random heading back to the safety of there home.
I have only come across one exception Colin Ireland, who travelled from Southend to a Gay club in Barking to pick up his victims. And this seems largely influenced by the lack of other similar places at that time.
But by and large Serial killers DONT get on a train or plane travel to a single specific location, kill only in that location and head long distances back to another location as a base.
Serial killers covert and kill what they see, they do it all their lives (I accept there appears to be evidence of some serial killers laying dormant for periods of time) But they kill over wide areas only if they themselves have travelled or moved to a different area.
So what I'm concluding here is that Ripper theories can be put into two camps. The Jack lived at the heart of the Murders Camp (And the only one which makes any sense to me)
and the Jack travelled from outside and killed only in the Eastend camp. Which clearly makes no sense what so ever and would dis-count around 95 to 98% of all the suspect who have been put forward as JtR.
Of course there are a few flies in that statement including Carry Brown. But I wonder given what is known about serial killers and sexual preditors today, if we should just cut from our thinking anyone not actually living in Whitechapel at the time of the murders. And anyone who moved away from Whitechapel and had opportunity and didnt kill after the murders.
Yours Jeff
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