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@@Trisha-2023 You do know that they've done DNA tests to confirm that Kosiminski was in fact Jack the Ripper, people can cope all they want because he wasn't their romanticised Victorian gentleman but an insane Polish-immigrant but unless you can provide me with a plausible excuse how Kosiminski's DNA ended up a murder scene, then spare me all other copes because they are irrelevant.
The best time! I really want to do one of those tours, myself at some point. There’s a couple of tours with particular people I want specifically to see them. Richard Cobb and Richard Jones.
Thank you! To me, that is what sets me apart from the others. I try to read it more like a proper story teller but without being full-on thespian about it. Almost akin to BBC radio 4’s “A Book at Bedtime” series. Although my female cockney voice is perhaps a little too Monty Python sounding!!😂😂😂 “He’s not Jack the Ripper, he’s a very naughty boy!” 😂😂😂
Wow! That picture of the last victim really shocked me. I've seen it before in it's original black and white version but it's entirely something different in color. Definitely the work of a devil. I do like these who done it serial killer mysteries. Maybe you will make a video of the Zodiac Killer from the 1960s. I highly recommend watching the 2007 movie Zodiac.
I've just discovered your channel and am working my way through the cases Your accents and voices add a new dimension to the coverage of the cases Well done sir 👍❤️
Ta very much! Yes, that’s what I thought from the start, it’s more like a storytelling than a traditional doc. All of the facts but a bit more…pazazz, if that makes sense? Glad to have you aboard.
I agree with many of the things you said: 1. No way was Stride a Ripper Victim. I do think there is a slight possibility that Tabrum was his first "frenzied assault" but not very much. 2. I don't think the true killer ever even appeared on a suspect list; or if he did he was quickly dismissed. What I have always wondered (other than his identity) is how many times the police or vigilance committees stopped him and let him go.. 3. I think the Lusk letter was a prank by a medical student. 4. Homosexual killers kill other men Two things served JTR above all else: 1. He was INCREDIBLY LUCKY!! 2. He was probably so unassuming that no one would've believed he was the killer, even if you told them
Imagine living in squalid poverty, maybe with a painful disease and then running into the monster that did this. Is so unfair, I hope karma caught up with the killer. I can understand why people didn't act when witnessing the possible acts, lived on rougher council estates all my life and you learn to mind your business so I won't judge them for that.
whitechapel in the 19th century was merely an echo of the worst poverty known in London, which was the rookeries in the parish of St Giles which was every ally demolished to make way for New Oxford Street. it's worth researching
As has been said re. Lechmere; if he wasn't the ripper then he must have been the most unfortunate man in London. He seems to have had a tangible link to all the canonical 5 murder sites, notwithstanding being the first on the scene at the Polly Nicholls murder. Her murder had been so recent prior to discovery that the blood had hardly trickled out of the wounds, and yet no one had been sited in the vicinity other than the man standing over her body: Lechmere!
In a modern investigation, Lechmere would be a prime suspect and would have a lot of questions to answer. Not to mention forensic scrutiny. I've not heard of a more likely culprit.
That has to be THE best break down of the whole Ripper mystery I've ever listened to,thank you so very much , and i utterly agree with you that the person known as Jack ,was an absolute nobody !
Thank you so much for saying so. It is nice to think about who he could have been. I’d want to know but I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from changing history!
Hi great video brought back some memories. I worked in Brick lane for many years back in the 80s. All the names of roads etc . There are or were working girls around the area got propositioned a good few times when I first worked there but after a few months they stopped bothering me. I figured they knew me by then and I was not interested. Spital Fields market was still a working market but after a couple of years it's was turned into a artisan type area similar to Covent garden in the west part of London. I believe it was a sailor and was in and out of London as ships were available. I wonder if he caught syphilis from a working women which would account for his hatred of them and would certainly effect his mind. Thanks for your time and work.
So well narrated, once again you add so much to the stories of the victims, the locations of their murders, and the history of this part of London. Also the photos add so much.
Thank you so much. I did have an extra part on Kate Eddowes’ life story but for some reason, that section didn’t save to the script document. Then I couldn’t remember where I’d gotten the info from! 😭😭😭
Thank you for this detailed video. I am a defence lawyer and thoroughly enjoyed the details. This is how I prepare for a matter, thorough in all detail.
Thank you very much! There’s a couple bits that I missed in hindsight that would have been nice to have included. I just forgot to add them to the script. C’est la vie.
One of The best graphic novels of all time is Alan Moore’s From Hell. I can’t even describe the layered nuances and genius of more that creates the baptism of blood for our modern age of efficient savage genocide and barbarism on unimaginable scales . 💀💀💀💀👑👑👑
I’m going to furnish myself with a copy of it at some point. Regardless of any inaccuracies, I’m a sucker for good, historically-based fiction, especially if it’s written by Bernard Cornwell! 😁 But I shall see what Alan Moore has to offer to the tale. Looking forward to it.
That was probably most thorough analysis I have ever seen relating to Jack, and I've seen quite a few. I found the conclusions of that Charles Lechmere documentary quite compelling, however the grape stalks found at several murder scenes were never mentioned, but WERE mentioned as being key pieces of evidence in every other show I'd seen up to that time. Unless I nodded off (sorry, I'm old and it happens!), you didn't mention them either. Are they fact or fiction? I tend to think that Jack is a nobody that blended in to the crowd. Bundy, Dahmer, Ridgway, etc, etc, etc would still be nobodies had they not chosen the path of evil, and gotten caught. Jack was just slick enough to get away with it. Jack was just likely a psychopath ahead of his time...
I have been interested in this case since 1988, when the centennial of the murders stirred up a lot of discussion and when the Scotland Yard files were finally opened, and have a ton of books on the subject, none of which have lead me to anything I could call a definite firm favourite suspect. I don't think we will ever have a better suspect than Charles Cross/Lechmere. He's the only person we know to have been found with a body within a few moments of her murder. That's not enough to say he is definitely the killer though, but it would warrant further investigation today. The Royal Conspiracy is a silly distraction that has caused nothing but a waste of time - if there were Royal involvement we'd never had heard of any of the crimes, IMO. The other suspects, well there isn't anything that actually links anybody to the crimes. So until I become King of the universe and invent a time machine, I think we will never know what happened. And that both upsets me and makes it so fascinating too. Great video, just finished my second watch now.
Agree entirely! And when you do become King of the Universe and get that time machine, please take me with you as I would love to see as well! ALL HAIL KING PERRY! 🫡👍🏻😂
@@PerryCJamesUK its because Walter sickert the painter was put up as a suspect with his Camden Town murder series of pictures one wich was called Jack the rippers bedroom he taught painting to Prince Albert Victor
The Charles Cross thing is sheer nonsense. It's based entirely on two notions: that he may have been in the area for each murder, and that he gave two different surnames. However, there are a few key problems with this theory: 1. There were thousands of people in the area for each murder. Whitechapel wasn't exactly a quiet country lane. 2. Any more specific assertions about his location are based on pure speculation as to whether he was going to work, coming from work, or visiting one of the two family houses where he spent a lot of time. 3. Him reporting two different surnames is not as suspicious as it may seem. People at that time often went by different surnames, as well as nicknames. I'm going to go with the Aaron Kosminski/Nathan Kaminski/David Cohen theory, because of a very telling passage in Robert Anderson's autobiography 'The Lighter Side of My Official Life'. In it, he writes conclusively: "I may say at once that "undiscovered murders" are rare in London, and the "Jack-the-Ripper" crimes are not within that category. (...) I will merely add that the only person who had ever had a good view of the murderer unhesitatingly identified the suspect the instant he was confronted with him; but he refused to give evidence against him. In saying that he was a Polish Jew I am merely stating a definitely ascertained fact."
@@vulpesinculta3238 - The circumstantial evidence against Lechmere is rather stronger than you suggest. 1. Paul attested that when he turned into Buck's Row there was no one in the street and his own footsteps would have been heard at the far end where Lechmere was with the body. 2. There are no assertions as to where Lechmere was for the other murders, but there was a connection with his route to work and his family's residences. 3. Lechmere had not used the surname Cross for many years, and he was listed as Lechmere on official records. He only used Cross when he was forced to give testimony to the inquiry. But who knows? All I know is that I haven't seen a better candidate as far as evidence is concerned.
An interesting aside about Francis Tumblety...when he died the nuns who transcribed his possessions noted he carried a gold watch and various other expensive jewelry and interestingly two cheap brass rings. One of the ripper victems may have had two cheap rings taken from her body by the killer. A man of wealth such as tumblety would have no real reason to carry around two cheap rings on his person. All his other jewelry was gold and expensive. But whether or not two rings were taken from one of the victims is speculation based on ring marks on her fingers. She might just as easily have lost them or pawned them.
Not the best idea iv ever had 'il stick this on whilst I eat my dinner'. 1 Mary Kelly photograph later.... Yeh I'm not so hungry now, funnily enough. Great video once again! Much to think about... Didn't even consider how different the Elizabeth stride murder actually is compared to the others, very interesting. Oh, also. Modern day Hanbury street. Somebody has put a 29 on the building that now stands where the original did. It wasn't on the footage used in your video but iv seen it on other ones recently. I like the little things like that, and 'Elizabeth stride street'. These poor women should never be forgotten. Looking forward to your next upload, keep up the good work 👌👍🖖
I expect my great great grandfather knew George Lusk, and could possibly have been a member of the Mile End Vigilance Committee himself. He owned a fruiterers shop at number 3 Mile End Road, a stone's throw from the scene of the killings, throughout the 1880s and as late as 1920 when my grandfather, his grandson, recalled visiting him. Who knows, he may have sold Jack himself half a pound of pears at some point.
Great video on a subject has been done many times before. So far yours is the best one. Cheers Some times my wife and i wonder if he wasnt a cop. He would know other cops routes and times they are supposed to be at certain parts. He might be able to make evidence disappears if need be and who would expect a bobby of doing such a thing?
Thank you. I think it’s ENTIRELY possible that JtR could’ve been a copper. But then, the criminals of the east end were more than savvy enough to learn the patrol beats and timings, too.
The vintage East End photos and sketches are remarkable we must remember during that time there was NO ELECTRICAL GRID and the streets were primeval Darkness combined with the London fog and factory soot- it’s so dark IE you can’t see your hand in front of your face forensics would be interesting about “full moon” and cloud cover but again - primeval darkness!!! A brilliant book about the Hell of the East End is Jack Landon’s People Of The Abyss- a Yank at that highly recommended! The time lines in this case are simply mind boggling it’s like he disappeared into thin air like a vampire ! 💀💀💀💀
Indeed not. There was gas mantles but they didn’t cast their light very far. So yes, more or less totally blind for the most part. I believe Bucks Row only had a single gas light at one end of it, and none further down.
This is the best, most detailed and most impartial examination of the facts I have seen. Excellent. Instantly subscribed. I also like the occasional humorous quip and self effacing approach. Brilliant.
21:22 Looks like the legendary James Mason, an early exponent to Germanic aggression losing his hand to Wotan in the cool film "the fall of the Roman empire". Top draw video, love the long ones.
Once again, good job. DiD, why did the killer cover up Polly’s abdominal wounds? He must have if Paul and Lechmere didn’t see it. Why did the killer take the time to cover up his work? I believe the Thames Torso killer and Whitechapel killer are one and same. Serial killers are rare. Dismemberment serial killers are only a fraction of that community. Extremely rare. According to the FBI database, at the height of their reign in 70s, 80s and 90s there was about 50-100 active serial killers. In a country of 300+ million people. In the 1900 census in the entire UK, there was only 40 million. In Whitechapel, around 80,000 people. The chances of 2 of these people operating in the same place, roughly the same time is more ridiculous than the Royal conspiracy theory. They have to be related. The myth that serial killers never change is just that. An incorrect myth. And there’s more physical similarities between the victims that’s supports this. Oh and btw, one of the suspects you mentioned lived in Pinchin St as a boy. No more than a stones throw from that arch the torso was dumped.
I really like your presentation of history. Your thorough research and recognition of the victims is as it should be. I hope you are winning your battle with your black dog.
Possibly one of videos that I have listened to most times. I think your storytelling is superb and I really love doing those accents when you are talking as characters. Like this is basically an audial form of a movie
I have to disagree with calling Jack a sadist. He strangled his victims before he did the mutilations. He didn't torture them. He had some kind of fetish for internal organs. That's what he was after. It looks like he was trying to cut their heads off too and not being able to. That might be why there's so much slashing of the face. Frustration at not being able to cut the heads off. He didn't want them looking at him. Sadists want to see facial expressions, he wanted to obliterate them/ He was into gore, not torture.
Quality mate👍leachmere has to b high on the list but maybe paul was their before him.found himself stuck for an escape and used leachmere as a way out🤔
Day 2 of bingeing on your channel. Well well done and thank you for all of your hard work. Your channel is making my staycation a wonderful one.Great channel
I appreciate that. I am hoping to get away this year, preferably Scotland, somewhere with a hot tub, several bottles of scotch and no people! 😂😂😂 the views are going to have to to bump up if that’s to happen though. I do love hearing from people who binge my videos, I admire that kind of dedication! Plus, I do the exact same thing with my favourite creators! 😇
Well Boss, this is as good a telling of the story of my funny little games as I've heard in donkey's years. The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing though. I send my Greetings and Felicitations to you. In a dried up bottle of Ginger beer. - Saucy Jack.
Wonderfully done.. I thoroughly enjoyed it, one of the best I've seen explaining all the details, I felt you answered many of my questions that had been plaguing me, that I had gone away with in so many other so-called documentaries of the Ripper. the maps and photos were superb, and the explanations of possible other victims, this had always left me wondering, knowing quite a bit about Serial Phycology. I always felt there would have been practice attempts before he fulfilled his full fantasy, every Serial has practice moments in varying degrees and I always felt though Serials are driven to murder like an addict, he had lost his anonymity as people were more aware to being a witness, and I always felt, his final attempts would have seemed hurried or unfinished because he had lost his comfort zone. No doubt many politics played roles in identifying these as the same perpetrator, politics always gets in the way and trips on itself in crimes even today...lol
Thank you for saying so. 😇 Yeah, I feel the maps and photos were the most important as it puts things into context with everything else, the big picture, so to speak. They weren’t always the easiest things to find though. The old police division borders were tricky. My cousin and I were pondering about why it seemed to be J division officers involved with Nichols when Whitechapel was H division. After a LOT of messing around and dead ends we finally found that Bucks Row was JUST inside J division’s patch. It was worth it and quite interesting to find out. Do you have a favourite suspect?
@@DiD86 Frankly my best would be Holmes, but I have a few hurdles with that I can't seem to get over, Jack I feel took great carnal pleasure in the hunting phase and in his brutality, watching the life drain from their eyes, feeling the blood drain away as they struggle, removing from them their womanhood, I feel that was his driving force,.. I know Serials can change their MO, but Holmes with his traps and gas filled rooms feels too sterile, too removed, and just doesn't feel brutal enough and have that up close and personal feel to be Jacks cup of tea.
As I recall, the "presenter" that walked through 29 Hanbury Street in the early seventies was esteemed British actor and Oscar winner, Sir John Mills. And father of the gorgeous actress, Hayley Mills. It's amazing that the location doesn't look any less run-down today than it did in 1888!
Brilliant programme. Very Listenable. Why am I writing this like it's eBay feedback? That was brilliant and very listenable. That's better lol My most annoyed thing about the From Hell film is Annie Chapman being murdered in Hanover Street... Hanover Street? It was Hanbury Street.
Great job spinning this tale DiD. Who do you think Jack the Ripper was? H. H. Holmes before he moved to the states, a member of the aristocracy, or someone else?
Lechmere was the ONLY suspect to have been seen by someone else lingering alone and acting suspiciously right next to the body of one of the victims at or near the time of death and with nobody else in sight or sound. He's unique.
Over the years I've been fascinated by The Ripper's case, beginning back when i was a teenager. (Many moons ago!) This video gave me a whole different way of looking at this. I especially liked the "then and now" pictures; brilliant touch! ❤
I think it’s important to connect the past with the present. It helps bring these distant events into a place where you can correlate them with the more tangible present.
This episode is so detailed, I'm surprised you didn't mention what we all know happened to Jack the Ripper... How he was finally defeated by being beamed into space by order of James T. Kirk. 😝
Agreed, you have a great voice plenty of character, live the accents you take them off well also the age I'm guessing. Love the amazing amount of time put into this. I'm looking forward to watching / listening to more after this in-depth one. Thanks it makes s nice change to have something different from the norm.
The two that always haunt my nightmares are Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes. I can never get their faces out of my head! I genuinely do get recurring dreams where I am in old London and actively trying to AVOID coming across JtR’s victims. Not the man, himself, the victims. I get this dream at least once or twice every month!
@@DiD86 Agree, on both. All the victim JTR photos are disturbing to the very core. And after long periods of reading and immersion in the JTR case in the past, I have seen them in my dreams as well. The Black Dahlia case photos here in the US pack quite a punch also.
It’s been a few years, but here I go again… Delving back into the world of the East End of 1888. With DiD to lead my imagination this time. The darkness, lamps, policemen walking the beat with lanterns, smoke, alcoholics, prostitutes, patrons, dosshouses, rancid living conditions, etc. And of course Saucy Jack on the prowl. Looking forward to the ride. Thanks.
To take all of the sex organs on one occasion without hitting the rectum with a 7 inch or more knife? To on another occasion sweep aside all the pelvic organs without damaging them and take the kidneys at the back? Hardly the work of a butcher. The man at least had some experience digging around in humans or pigs who are arranged identically or nearly so. Saying that I guess it could be s butcher, but would a butcher know that pigs are similarly arranged?
That’s the thing, without knowing for certain who it was, we don’t know his background. It would be interesting to know what actually led up to the spree.
I'm the CEO of Travelodge UK, and we are trying to raise our standards to equate to the comforts of a 4 penny coffin, obviously this is difficult due to the British customs of "meeting for a shag", and a "night on the smack", however our policy is to improve and this is our future pledge.
@@DiD86 Praise indeed my good man, I shall mention the comment at our next Annual General Meeting after the pertinent point "Vinyl bed sheets : The pro's and con's".
@@DiD86 A mock "re-trial" was held in France but it had no authority and was more of a media event than anything else. Truth is, it's simply impossible to say for sure whether he was stitched up or collared bang to rights. He certainly seems to have been something of a bad egg, but the more grotesque crimes that he was accused of are so extreme and lurid they seem almost "too perfect," i.e. custom-designed to appall. As you know from researching this video, it's hard enough to pin down precisely what happened only ~130 years ago in an age where photography, autopsies, evidence-collection, police procedures, and newspaper reports were all a thing! Not much hope, then, of ever getting to the truth of alleged killings from over half a millennium ago... As you say, we could clear up all of these mysteries if someone would just get on and invent a time-machine :)
You know, it’s funny. Since the Ripper case is widely known in modern times, whenever I hear the words or the name White Chapel, or the year 1888, the Ripper crimes come to mind immediately. I’m sure I’m not alone on that?
You have rare footage what is unique.Some images you presented in technicolor from the black n white photos great editing. I like the technicolor ones it shows how technology was improved from one era to another.
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Not to worry , your doing "just fine " I love this so much, so IL be watching more. Thank you.
I noticed you didn't mention the perpetrator, Aaron Kosiminski in the title of the video, maybe you should correct that.
@@abrahamedelstein4806 😂
@@abrahamedelstein4806 He was a suspect, not necessarily the perpetrator. I guess it will never be known 100% who JTR was.
@@Trisha-2023 You do know that they've done DNA tests to confirm that Kosiminski was in fact Jack the Ripper, people can cope all they want because he wasn't their romanticised Victorian gentleman but an insane Polish-immigrant but unless you can provide me with a plausible excuse how Kosiminski's DNA ended up a murder scene, then spare me all other copes because they are irrelevant.
Your attention to detail, storytelling & narration are spot on. I love longer , really in depth episodes like this. Subscribed.
“Still, it’s better than Travelodge…” I did a spit take! 😂
I was hoping to get that reaction fro a couple of peeps! HAHA!
I spent 3 years doing 2 nights a week at a Travelodge.. can attest
I recently took part in a murder tour related to the victims and had a drink at the pub the women used. It was at night and rather spooky.
The best time!
I really want to do one of those tours, myself at some point. There’s a couple of tours with particular people I want specifically to see them.
Richard Cobb and Richard Jones.
My favorite new channel! Love when you post longer videos really keeps me occupied at work
It kept me occupied at work writing them! 😂👍🏻
Thank you very much.
🤣🤣🤣 Work does get in the way sometimes, doesn't it!
I love your videos and the fact you do different voices and accents for different people makes this channel excellent
Thank you! To me, that is what sets me apart from the others. I try to read it more like a proper story teller but without being full-on thespian about it. Almost akin to BBC radio 4’s “A Book at Bedtime” series.
Although my female cockney voice is perhaps a little too Monty Python sounding!!😂😂😂
“He’s not Jack the Ripper, he’s a very naughty boy!” 😂😂😂
@@DiD86 Ha! I couldn't help but say "Hullo, Mrs. Thing! Hullo, Mrs. Entity!" :)
I just found your channel. It is grossly underappreciated. Figured you'd have at least a million subscribers. Can't imagine you won't eventually.
Great job. I appreciate all your research.
Even though I'm new in your channel I can see that you are doing a great job for those poor victims, RESPECT
4 penny coffin better than a travel lodge haha haha haha 😄
I’m glad someone liked that line. 😂😂😂😂
@@DiD86 that cracked me up good line
😂 Lol
Another video ticked off the list and thoroughly enjoyed. You really have a very good voice for narration.
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you again.
In bed with flu watching your channel, thank you for your time and efforts 💚from 🇮🇪👍
I wish you a speedy recovery! And thank you for your support.
Not gonna have a laugh at you but you doing women voices had me thinking of monthy python! ;)
I grew up on Monty Python, so I wouldn’t take that as an insult whatsoever! 😂😂😂
I can do VERY accurate Python women voices to be fair.
Your work is amazing i appreaciate you!
@@Vixxing21 and I appreciate you and your support. 👍🏻😇
@@DiD86 "SHUT UP! Bloody Vikings! The baked beans are off!"
@@stormbourbon8379 Can I have spam instead?
The person committing this last murder would have been covered in blood.
What a brutal frenzy the ripper had with this poor young girl.
Unbelievable.
Wow! That picture of the last victim really shocked me. I've seen it before in it's original black and white version but it's entirely something different in color. Definitely the work of a devil.
I do like these who done it serial killer mysteries. Maybe you will make a video of the Zodiac Killer from the 1960s. I highly recommend watching the 2007 movie Zodiac.
I've just discovered your channel and am working my way through the cases
Your accents and voices add a new dimension to the coverage of the cases
Well done sir 👍❤️
Ta very much!
Yes, that’s what I thought from the start, it’s more like a storytelling than a traditional doc. All of the facts but a bit more…pazazz, if that makes sense?
Glad to have you aboard.
Cross, I believe was Jack the Ripper.
I agree with many of the things you said:
1. No way was Stride a Ripper Victim. I do think there is a slight possibility that Tabrum was his first "frenzied assault" but not very much.
2. I don't think the true killer ever even appeared on a suspect list; or if he did he was quickly dismissed.
What I have always wondered (other than his identity) is how many times the police or vigilance committees stopped him and let him go..
3. I think the Lusk letter was a prank by a medical student.
4. Homosexual killers kill other men
Two things served JTR above all else:
1. He was INCREDIBLY LUCKY!!
2. He was probably so unassuming that no one would've believed he was the killer, even if you told them
I agree about the true killer being someone unassuming. Just a face in the crowd.
An excellent job, thank you for your hard work!
Imagine living in squalid poverty, maybe with a painful disease and then running into the monster that did this. Is so unfair, I hope karma caught up with the killer. I can understand why people didn't act when witnessing the possible acts, lived on rougher council estates all my life and you learn to mind your business so I won't judge them for that.
whitechapel in the 19th century was merely an echo of the worst poverty known in London, which was the rookeries in the parish of St Giles which was every ally demolished to make way for New Oxford Street. it's worth researching
As has been said re. Lechmere; if he wasn't the ripper then he must have been the most unfortunate man in London. He seems to have had a tangible link to all the canonical 5 murder sites, notwithstanding being the first on the scene at the Polly Nicholls murder.
Her murder had been so recent prior to discovery that the blood had hardly trickled out of the wounds, and yet no one had been sited in the vicinity other than the man standing over her body: Lechmere!
In a modern investigation, Lechmere would be a prime suspect and would have a lot of questions to answer. Not to mention forensic scrutiny. I've not heard of a more likely culprit.
@@renejean2523 Thank you; yes, I watched that video. It makes a very compelling case!
No kidding, best Ripper doc I've ever enjoyed watching. Very well done indeed. Love the different voices and accents. Really helps to draw you in.
That has to be THE best break down of the whole Ripper mystery I've ever listened to,thank you so very much , and i utterly agree with you that the person known as Jack ,was an absolute nobody !
Thank you so much for saying so. It is nice to think about who he could have been. I’d want to know but I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from changing history!
Ditto! I am a whore for history videos, and Darkness is hands down the best out there on everything he's covered!
Extremely well done. thanks for sharing!
And thank you for watching. 👍🏻😇
Hi great video brought back some memories. I worked in Brick lane for many years back in the 80s. All the names of roads etc . There are or were working girls around the area got propositioned a good few times when I first worked there but after a few months they stopped bothering me. I figured they knew me by then and I was not interested. Spital Fields market was still a working market but after a couple of years it's was turned into a artisan type area similar to Covent garden in the west part of London. I believe it was a sailor and was in and out of London as ships were available. I wonder if he caught syphilis from a working women which would account for his hatred of them and would certainly effect his mind. Thanks for your time and work.
Shame to hear about the market. Yuppies ruin everything! But then better that than see it shut and knocked down.
One of the BEST Crime channels...
Thank you! 😁
God bless you, i find your channel informative, educational..and addictive. All your hard work sets your channel apart (in my eyes) thank you..
Thank you so much. That’s what makes it all worthwhile.
So well narrated, once again you add so much to the stories of the victims, the locations of their murders, and the history of this part of London. Also the photos add so much.
Thank you so much.
I did have an extra part on Kate Eddowes’ life story but for some reason, that section didn’t save to the script document. Then I couldn’t remember where I’d gotten the info from! 😭😭😭
@@DiD86 nonetheless your attention to all the details is amazing, keep up the great work, so appreciated!
@@Catssandra13 I most certainly will!
Thank you for this detailed video. I am a defence lawyer and thoroughly enjoyed the details. This is how I prepare for a matter, thorough in all detail.
Thank you very much!
There’s a couple bits that I missed in hindsight that would have been nice to have included. I just forgot to add them to the script. C’est la vie.
One of The best graphic novels of all time is Alan Moore’s From Hell. I can’t even describe the layered nuances and genius of more that creates the baptism of blood for our modern age of efficient savage genocide and barbarism on unimaginable scales . 💀💀💀💀👑👑👑
I’m going to furnish myself with a copy of it at some point. Regardless of any inaccuracies, I’m a sucker for good, historically-based fiction, especially if it’s written by Bernard Cornwell! 😁
But I shall see what Alan Moore has to offer to the tale. Looking forward to it.
That was probably most thorough analysis I have ever seen relating to Jack, and I've seen quite a few. I found the conclusions of that Charles Lechmere documentary quite compelling, however the grape stalks found at several murder scenes were never mentioned, but WERE mentioned as being key pieces of evidence in every other show I'd seen up to that time. Unless I nodded off (sorry, I'm old and it happens!), you didn't mention them either. Are they fact or fiction? I tend to think that Jack is a nobody that blended in to the crowd. Bundy, Dahmer, Ridgway, etc, etc, etc would still be nobodies had they not chosen the path of evil, and gotten caught. Jack was just slick enough to get away with it. Jack was just likely a psychopath ahead of his time...
I just watched the Peter Sutcliffe documentary by you and I did subscribe. It was awesome, nicely done. Thank you
Thank you. 😁
I have been interested in this case since 1988, when the centennial of the murders stirred up a lot of discussion and when the Scotland Yard files were finally opened, and have a ton of books on the subject, none of which have lead me to anything I could call a definite firm favourite suspect. I don't think we will ever have a better suspect than Charles Cross/Lechmere. He's the only person we know to have been found with a body within a few moments of her murder. That's not enough to say he is definitely the killer though, but it would warrant further investigation today. The Royal Conspiracy is a silly distraction that has caused nothing but a waste of time - if there were Royal involvement we'd never had heard of any of the crimes, IMO. The other suspects, well there isn't anything that actually links anybody to the crimes. So until I become King of the universe and invent a time machine, I think we will never know what happened. And that both upsets me and makes it so fascinating too. Great video, just finished my second watch now.
Agree entirely!
And when you do become King of the Universe and get that time machine, please take me with you as I would love to see as well! ALL HAIL KING PERRY! 🫡👍🏻😂
@@DiD86 It's only a matter of time before the inevitable coronation, then you can climb aboard the Perry Time Machine hehehheee
@@PerryCJamesUK its because Walter sickert the painter was put up as a suspect with his Camden Town murder series of pictures one wich was called Jack the rippers bedroom he taught painting to Prince Albert Victor
The Charles Cross thing is sheer nonsense. It's based entirely on two notions: that he may have been in the area for each murder, and that he gave two different surnames. However, there are a few key problems with this theory:
1. There were thousands of people in the area for each murder. Whitechapel wasn't exactly a quiet country lane.
2. Any more specific assertions about his location are based on pure speculation as to whether he was going to work, coming from work, or visiting one of the two family houses where he spent a lot of time.
3. Him reporting two different surnames is not as suspicious as it may seem. People at that time often went by different surnames, as well as nicknames.
I'm going to go with the Aaron Kosminski/Nathan Kaminski/David Cohen theory, because of a very telling passage in Robert Anderson's autobiography 'The Lighter Side of My Official Life'. In it, he writes conclusively:
"I may say at once that "undiscovered murders" are rare in London, and the "Jack-the-Ripper" crimes are not within that category. (...) I will merely add that the only person who had ever had a good view of the murderer unhesitatingly identified the suspect the instant he was confronted with him; but he refused to give evidence against him. In saying that he was a Polish Jew I am merely stating a definitely ascertained fact."
@@vulpesinculta3238 - The circumstantial evidence against Lechmere is rather stronger than you suggest. 1. Paul attested that when he turned into Buck's Row there was no one in the street and his own footsteps would have been heard at the far end where Lechmere was with the body. 2. There are no assertions as to where Lechmere was for the other murders, but there was a connection with his route to work and his family's residences. 3. Lechmere had not used the surname Cross for many years, and he was listed as Lechmere on official records. He only used Cross when he was forced to give testimony to the inquiry.
But who knows? All I know is that I haven't seen a better candidate as far as evidence is concerned.
An interesting aside about Francis Tumblety...when he died the nuns who transcribed his possessions noted he carried a gold watch and various other expensive jewelry and interestingly two cheap brass rings. One of the ripper victems may have had two cheap rings taken from her body by the killer. A man of wealth such as tumblety would have no real reason to carry around two cheap rings on his person. All his other jewelry was gold and expensive.
But whether or not two rings were taken from one of the victims is speculation based on ring marks on her fingers. She might just as easily have lost them or pawned them.
Yes, I should have mentioned that part.
It is an interesting little piece of information, isn’t it?
I did a ripper walk in the early nineties. Some of the locations had original roads, kerbs and buildings. Probably virtually all gone by now.
Not the best idea iv ever had 'il stick this on whilst I eat my dinner'.
1 Mary Kelly photograph later.... Yeh I'm not so hungry now, funnily enough.
Great video once again! Much to think about... Didn't even consider how different the Elizabeth stride murder actually is compared to the others, very interesting.
Oh, also. Modern day Hanbury street. Somebody has put a 29 on the building that now stands where the original did. It wasn't on the footage used in your video but iv seen it on other ones recently. I like the little things like that, and 'Elizabeth stride street'.
These poor women should never be forgotten.
Looking forward to your next upload, keep up the good work 👌👍🖖
You are most welcome. Yeah, those photos are….yuk! Poor lasses.
Fantastic.
This is most in-depth professional detailed account of Jack the Ripper yet.
I expect my great great grandfather knew George Lusk, and could possibly have been a member of the Mile End Vigilance Committee himself. He owned a fruiterers shop at number 3 Mile End Road, a stone's throw from the scene of the killings, throughout the 1880s and as late as 1920 when my grandfather, his grandson, recalled visiting him. Who knows, he may have sold Jack himself half a pound of pears at some point.
Great video on a subject has been done many times before. So far yours is the best one. Cheers
Some times my wife and i wonder if he wasnt a cop. He would know other cops routes and times they are supposed to be at certain parts. He might be able to make evidence disappears if need be and who would expect a bobby of doing such a thing?
Thank you.
I think it’s ENTIRELY possible that JtR could’ve been a copper. But then, the criminals of the east end were more than savvy enough to learn the patrol beats and timings, too.
Your inner girl voice is creeping me OUT!
The vintage East End photos and sketches are remarkable we must remember during that time there was NO ELECTRICAL GRID and the streets were primeval Darkness combined with the London fog and factory soot- it’s so dark IE you can’t see your hand in front of your face forensics would be interesting about “full moon” and cloud cover but again - primeval darkness!!! A brilliant book about the Hell of the East End is Jack Landon’s People Of The Abyss- a Yank at that highly recommended! The time lines in this case are simply mind boggling it’s like he disappeared into thin air like a vampire ! 💀💀💀💀
Indeed not. There was gas mantles but they didn’t cast their light very far. So yes, more or less totally blind for the most part.
I believe Bucks Row only had a single gas light at one end of it, and none further down.
This is the best, most detailed and most impartial examination of the facts I have seen. Excellent. Instantly subscribed. I also like the occasional humorous quip and self effacing approach. Brilliant.
Great documentary I’ve done the Jack the Ripper walk in london it was very interesting
Beautifully produced. Informative and attention capturing.
Kudos!
Thank you so much, sir.
21:22 Looks like the legendary James Mason, an early exponent to Germanic aggression losing his hand to Wotan in the cool film "the fall of the Roman empire". Top draw video, love the long ones.
I really like your channel! You cover the murders very well
Thank you. I certainly enjoyed making this one.
Once again, good job. DiD, why did the killer cover up Polly’s abdominal wounds? He must have if Paul and Lechmere didn’t see it. Why did the killer take the time to cover up his work?
I believe the Thames Torso killer and Whitechapel killer are one and same. Serial killers are rare. Dismemberment serial killers are only a fraction of that community. Extremely rare. According to the FBI database, at the height of their reign in 70s, 80s and 90s there was about 50-100 active serial killers. In a country of 300+ million people. In the 1900 census in the entire UK, there was only 40 million. In Whitechapel, around 80,000 people. The chances of 2 of these people operating in the same place, roughly the same time is more ridiculous than the Royal conspiracy theory. They have to be related. The myth that serial killers never change is just that. An incorrect myth. And there’s more physical similarities between the victims that’s supports this. Oh and btw, one of the suspects you mentioned lived in Pinchin St as a boy. No more than a stones throw from that arch the torso was dumped.
It’s entirely possible, and indeed plausible. But there’s the fascination, we will NEVER know. But by God, what I’d give to find out for sure!
I really like your presentation of history. Your thorough research and recognition of the victims is as it should be. I hope you are winning your battle with your black dog.
Possibly one of videos that I have listened to most times. I think your storytelling is superb and I really love doing those accents when you are talking as characters. Like this is basically an audial form of a movie
I have to disagree with calling Jack a sadist. He strangled his victims before he did the mutilations. He didn't torture them. He had some kind of fetish for internal organs. That's what he was after. It looks like he was trying to cut their heads off too and not being able to. That might be why there's so much slashing of the face. Frustration at not being able to cut the heads off. He didn't want them looking at him. Sadists want to see facial expressions, he wanted to obliterate them/ He was into gore, not torture.
I think the ripper was Charles lechmear people out There Google the house of lechmear. Most interesting.
Thank you. This was so interesting and well put together.
Quality mate👍leachmere has to b high on the list but maybe paul was their before him.found himself stuck for an escape and used leachmere as a way out🤔
Great telling of the story. I’m a Lechmere guy but his case isn’t airtight either
Day 2 of bingeing on your channel. Well well done and thank you for all of your hard work. Your channel is making my staycation a wonderful one.Great channel
I appreciate that. I am hoping to get away this year, preferably Scotland, somewhere with a hot tub, several bottles of scotch and no people! 😂😂😂 the views are going to have to to bump up if that’s to happen though.
I do love hearing from people who binge my videos, I admire that kind of dedication! Plus, I do the exact same thing with my favourite creators! 😇
Understood and well deserved. Rest and a break is critical so enjoy!!!.. You have a new subscriber with Alerts on so its all good :)
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So glad I found this amazing channel. Thanks for sharing your talent, and I LOVE the voices!
In from hell they combined abberline with Robert James lee
Well Boss, this is as good a telling of the story of my funny little games as I've heard in donkey's years. The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing though. I send my Greetings and Felicitations to you. In a dried up bottle of Ginger beer.
- Saucy Jack.
Wonderfully done.. I thoroughly enjoyed it, one of the best I've seen explaining all the details, I felt you answered many of my questions that had been plaguing me, that I had gone away with in so many other so-called documentaries of the Ripper. the maps and photos were superb, and the explanations of possible other victims, this had always left me wondering, knowing quite a bit about Serial Phycology. I always felt there would have been practice attempts before he fulfilled his full fantasy, every Serial has practice moments in varying degrees and I always felt though Serials are driven to murder like an addict, he had lost his anonymity as people were more aware to being a witness, and I always felt, his final attempts would have seemed hurried or unfinished because he had lost his comfort zone. No doubt many politics played roles in identifying these as the same perpetrator, politics always gets in the way and trips on itself in crimes even today...lol
Thank you for saying so. 😇
Yeah, I feel the maps and photos were the most important as it puts things into context with everything else, the big picture, so to speak. They weren’t always the easiest things to find though. The old police division borders were tricky.
My cousin and I were pondering about why it seemed to be J division officers involved with Nichols when Whitechapel was H division. After a LOT of messing around and dead ends we finally found that Bucks Row was JUST inside J division’s patch. It was worth it and quite interesting to find out.
Do you have a favourite suspect?
@@DiD86 Frankly my best would be Holmes, but I have a few hurdles with that I can't seem to get over, Jack I feel took great carnal pleasure in the hunting phase and in his brutality, watching the life drain from their eyes, feeling the blood drain away as they struggle, removing from them their womanhood, I feel that was his driving force,.. I know Serials can change their MO, but Holmes with his traps and gas filled rooms feels too sterile, too removed, and just doesn't feel brutal enough and have that up close and personal feel to be Jacks cup of tea.
@@kellywilliams5112 I agree, the glove most certainly doesn't fit. It's crazy and madening to think that we will never know!
As I recall, the "presenter" that walked through 29 Hanbury Street in the early seventies was esteemed British actor and Oscar winner, Sir John Mills. And father of the gorgeous actress, Hayley Mills.
It's amazing that the location doesn't look any less run-down today than it did in 1888!
Interesting!
And yeah, it pretty much looked EXACTLY as it did on that morning!
Brilliant programme. Very Listenable. Why am I writing this like it's eBay feedback? That was brilliant and very listenable. That's better lol My most annoyed thing about the From Hell film is Annie Chapman being murdered in Hanover Street... Hanover Street? It was Hanbury Street.
Thank you very much. 👍🏻😇
Hanover Street, you say? I missed that one! I shall have to watch it again and see if I spot it! Intriguing…
What a fantastical video. Obviously a lot of time and effort has gone into researching and presenting such an informative piece. Well done!
Thank you very much.
Love the word Fantastical it's certainly different.
Great job spinning this tale DiD. Who do you think Jack the Ripper was? H. H. Holmes before he moved to the states, a member of the aristocracy, or someone else?
Lechmere was the ONLY suspect to have been seen by someone else lingering alone and acting suspiciously right next to the body of one of the victims at or near the time of death and with nobody else in sight or sound. He's unique.
Sir, you are a master storyteller.
Thank you so much.
Incredible video, the voices/accents are so realistic... But in all seriousness, this is one of the best channels I've found.
Ok ! Another brilliant effort. I like the witty comments as well as your analysis. Very interesting !
Thank you very much! 😇
Over the years I've been fascinated by The Ripper's case, beginning back when i was a teenager. (Many moons ago!) This video gave me a whole different way of looking at this. I especially liked the "then and now" pictures; brilliant touch! ❤
I think it’s important to connect the past with the present. It helps bring these distant events into a place where you can correlate them with the more tangible present.
This episode is so detailed, I'm surprised you didn't mention what we all know happened to Jack the Ripper... How he was finally defeated by being beamed into space by order of James T. Kirk. 😝
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Please do a video on the blackout ripper
It's still like that in England....either very rich or very poor.
Preaching to the choir on that one, Robert! Very true indeed!
Same as many countries. Try visiting India for even more extremes.
I've just come across your channel, and I have to stay, I thoroughly enjoyed your content. You have a very delightful voice.
Ta very much! 😇
Excellent narration, mate 🤠
Excellent job!
Agreed, you have a great voice plenty of character, live the accents you take them off well also the age I'm guessing. Love the amazing amount of time put into this. I'm looking forward to watching / listening to more after this in-depth one.
Thanks it makes s nice change to have something different from the norm.
Hate this bloody site, you get so engrossed I've been late for work 3 times in last fortnight....😂😂😂😂😂😂 keep up the good work..
😂😂😂😂 my apologies.
@@DiD86 😂😂😂😂😂
Fun fact....I have the book Psychopathia Sexualis, by Richard von Krafft-Ebing.
It's an ....interesting read.
Amazing that “mortuary” still stands. The Mary Kelly photo has always been a nightmare unto itself - and it being colorized only adds to the horror.
The two that always haunt my nightmares are Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes. I can never get their faces out of my head!
I genuinely do get recurring dreams where I am in old London and actively trying to AVOID coming across JtR’s victims. Not the man, himself, the victims.
I get this dream at least once or twice every month!
@@DiD86 Agree, on both. All the victim JTR photos are disturbing to the very core. And after long periods of reading and immersion in the JTR case in the past, I have seen them in my dreams as well. The Black Dahlia case photos here in the US pack quite a punch also.
@@cotachrome5797 yes, I’ve seen those photos too. Not for the faint hearted, either.
Outstanding! very well put
Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure!
A great documentary
Those bulls eye lamps hardly threw much light off they weren't much better than a cigarette lighter or match
Yeah, they were fairly rubbish. Think they used whale oil and a cotton wick???
It’s been a few years, but here I go again… Delving back into the world of the East End of 1888. With DiD to lead my imagination this time. The darkness, lamps, policemen walking the beat with lanterns, smoke, alcoholics, prostitutes, patrons, dosshouses, rancid living conditions, etc. And of course Saucy Jack on the prowl. Looking forward to the ride. Thanks.
Very beautifully put! Perhaps you should be a writer, too! 😇
To take all of the sex organs on one occasion without hitting the rectum with a 7 inch or more knife? To on another occasion sweep aside all the pelvic organs without damaging them and take the kidneys at the back?
Hardly the work of a butcher. The man at least had some experience digging around in humans or pigs who are arranged identically or nearly so.
Saying that I guess it could be s butcher, but would a butcher know that pigs are similarly arranged?
I still call shenanigans on it.
@Descent into Darkness " I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next man who says shenanigans!" -The Chief, Super Troopers
Where do they think he started. Killers like that usually start smaller and build up to that extreme.
That’s the thing, without knowing for certain who it was, we don’t know his background. It would be interesting to know what actually led up to the spree.
I'm the CEO of Travelodge UK, and we are trying to raise our standards to equate to the comforts of a 4 penny coffin, obviously this is difficult due to the British customs of "meeting for a shag", and a "night on the smack", however our policy is to improve and this is our future pledge.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 best comment in the channel’s history! Well done, sir! 🫡
@@DiD86 Praise indeed my good man, I shall mention the comment at our next Annual General Meeting after the pertinent point "Vinyl bed sheets : The pro's and con's".
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1:30:17 'What Shall We Do To Pay The Rent?' 33:51 "Kelly had been well-behind in her payments, owing 29 shillings".
Correlation doesn’t equal causation…
Absolutely not. Just sprung to me mind as a tenuous link.
The O.G. lmfao 🎉
I Love this account!!
Thank you
Hi, there...I enjoy listening. However, I'm skipping this one because I've already read numerous books on the topic.
Addicted to your channel! ❤
Thank you. Me too! 😂
New vid coming soon.
Better than a travel lodge. How true 😂.i did love your humour 😊
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59:54 - (Lusk) would have a key PLAY to ROLE …. ???? 😂😂😂
It’s only now registered for the first time!!!
Jack The Ripper: The O.G. Serial Killer
Gilles de Rais, 450 years earlier: "Hold my Cognac..."
Ah, but Gilles de Rais has been pretty much exonerated. Vicious rumours, by what I’ve heard….
@@DiD86 A mock "re-trial" was held in France but it had no authority and was more of a media event than anything else. Truth is, it's simply impossible to say for sure whether he was stitched up or collared bang to rights. He certainly seems to have been something of a bad egg, but the more grotesque crimes that he was accused of are so extreme and lurid they seem almost "too perfect," i.e. custom-designed to appall.
As you know from researching this video, it's hard enough to pin down precisely what happened only ~130 years ago in an age where photography, autopsies, evidence-collection, police procedures, and newspaper reports were all a thing! Not much hope, then, of ever getting to the truth of alleged killings from over half a millennium ago...
As you say, we could clear up all of these mysteries if someone would just get on and invent a time-machine :)
You know, it’s funny. Since the Ripper case is widely known in modern times, whenever I hear the words or the name White Chapel, or the year 1888, the Ripper crimes come to mind immediately. I’m sure I’m not alone on that?
Excellent presentation. Keep up the good work!
I most definitely well. 👍🏻😇
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Not ripper victim Lechmere might have killed her
Lechmere does seem like a credible candidate, certainly more so than ones such as Dr Cream or MJ Druitt, anyway in my opinion.
Another fascinating analysis! Thank you ....I inevitably learn something new ...eg the Dr Barnado connection.
What a voice?
Excellent video, but the voice used for the women is a real miss for me. Sounds like mockery.
Otherwise an awesome video as usual.
You have rare footage what is unique.Some images you presented in technicolor from the black n white photos great editing. I like the technicolor ones it shows how technology was improved from one era to another.