The Man Victorians Believed Was Jack The Ripper - Frederick Bailey Deeming
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- The case of Frederick Bailey Deeming is a notorious true crime story from the late 19th century. Deeming, a charming but deceitful man, gained infamy for his gruesome crimes, including the murder of his wife and children. His modus operandi involved assuming multiple identities and luring unsuspecting victims into his web of lies. Deeming's crimes shocked Victorian society and garnered international attention. He was eventually apprehended and convicted of his heinous acts. The case of Frederick Bailey Deeming serves as a chilling reminder of the depths of human depravity and the importance of vigilance against charismatic but dangerous individuals.
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It is always a pleasure to listen to Paul speak the english language!
What kind of dialect of English is he speaking? I thoroughly enough listening to it, it's much more pleasing to the ear then the more "snobbish" Oxford or London dialect accent. It sound close to Scottish, only not with such "broad sounds", so perhaps it's from somewhere in Northern England?
@@elvenkind6072 Prob Edinburgh middle class
@@elvenkind6072 BTW I LOVE the quintessential English accent... and I'm Irish
@@elvenkind6072 Scottish so technically not English 1
@@gowdsake7103 Oh, so it IS a Scottish accent he is having? I didn't know that. I particularly enjoy the "R"-sounds in his speech. It's such a wholesome kind of accent to listen to.
Jack the Ripper, I must have watched a majority of the Ripper movies.
One murder that has fascinated many generations.
Thank you for posting 😊
Was wondering if you would do one on him.
Your presentation style is wonderfully engaging😀
Nice to know there were actually competent police in the late 1800s.
Great work tracking him through his aliases & movements.
Not convinced Deeming is ripper, but top notch presentation and narration!
Thank god you posted again I almost died❤
I saw a documentary in the ‘80s and every one of the panelists of which there was 5 or 6 chose Kaminsky as The Ripper.
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Great.. enjoyed listening.
I am curious as to why Deeming would ask a jeweller to clean bloodstained surgical knives. Why not clean them himself? Why draw attention? It comes across as false testimony.
Horrifying story, but not convinced Deeming was JTR. The MO was entirely different: Deeming wanted to hide the bodies and delay discovery; JTR left the bodies out on the open and didn't bother hiding them. JTR eviscerated his victims; Deeming courted and married them, then cut throats and beat their heads in, but didn't remove anything. It's possible, I guess, that Deeming could've changed his methods, but humans being creatures of routine and habit, I doubt it. Just because two killers were operating at the same time doesn't mean they're the same person, nor does being in the same area.
A reliable source mentioned a Dr Bates - i tried to research it but found nothing
Patricia Cornwell makes a very convincing case for it being a man named Walter Sickert.
Brilliant 👍🏻 well done. 🙏🏻✌🏻
Thank you.
Paul could read the ingredients of a shampoo bottle and I would be absolutely engrossed in it!
Thanks, upon reading this gave me a needed grin
My mind imagined Paul saying *_sham-poo'ooo_*
When your mum says "you're born to be hanged" its not as if you are probably starting out on the right foot. Lets face it.
It's good to see Melbourne making a contribution to the annals of true crime. Thats a first !
For your own mom to say that, he mustve been extrenely difficult. She mustve known he was gonna be a killer and end up on the end of a rope one day
@@buschovski1Not much hope when mom isn't rooting for ya.
@@skybot9998yeah about none
But imagine hearing that as a child; I'm sure that didn't help his psyche. He was just living up for the prophecy his mom gave him.
Looking at their records his mother worked at least for a time as a hatter. It was the local industry. There’s a reason for the term mad as a hatter. Mercury poisoning.
We all appreciate your hard work in putting out these great videos for all of us!❤
Such an enduring mystery! My great great uncle, Edward Watkins, found one of the victims. He was a policeman and was in Mitre Square the night Catherine Eddowes body was found. Some family lore. I live in Canada, up my father’s mother was from East London. And it was her uncle that was Edward Watkins.
I don't believe A Inch that Frederick was the Ripper...
Same... he wasn't as grusome in his murders
I don't, either. Deeming may have been a monster, he had a different M.O. from Jack the Ripper.
DNA said no for Deeming
Fred cared too much to be the Ripper, getting married, having kids and all. His killings had a motive.
I believe the Ripper was truly emotionless and insane. He cared for no one and his killings had no motive.
For a lot of years I thought it was Walter Sickert, but now I'm convinced it was Charles Lechmere
I could listen to this guy tell stories all day. Doesn't matter the subject.
Yes! I'm thinking bedtime stories.
He'll he sit there read ma menu just that voice lol
@@louisegross3886 😂👍
I could listen to him read insurance policies, legal documents, the dictionary and love it! 😁
He could just read the shipping forecast and I’d probably make a point of listening to it!
He's certainly not jack the ripper He's a cold hearted killer but Jack the ripper He's not nobody will ever know who jack the ripper was
I don't think Deeming was the Ripper. He was never right mentally, but committed his murders in a straightforward manner. I enjoyed your telling of his horrific story.
There was no 'Ripper'. No doubt about it, these were just random murders. I compare it to the Boston Strangler, because after the first couple murders someone smartly said if newspapers keep giving all the details people would just use the same methods to kill people in hopes it was blamed on the Boston Strangler, and they were correct. I think the same happened in this case, newspapers gave all the details, and it caused women to get killed, because anybody that wanted to kill a woman had a blueprint on how to do it and have it blamed on a fictitious killer. Even the letters from the killer were fake and created by the newspapers. Two of the three letters were created by newspaper workers, and they confessed to writing them to sell newspapers. Those two letters are signed Jack The Ripper, the 3rd letter is not. Newspapers literally created the killer out of thin air. I have zero doubts about it, there was no single killer
I agree with you.
HH.HOLMES FOI JACK THE RIPPER.
@@LISA-gv5yo Holmes was not a serial killer. He was just a criminal that killed to stop from being caught. Huge difference. No intelligent person with knowledge of serial killers would ever call Holmes a serial killer, because he simply wasn't.
Right as I start twitching and scratching and asking, “C’mon, man, when’s Paul gonna put somethin’ out?!” there he is… just moments before I check myself into RUclips rehab
It's like heroin, mate😮!
John Fiedler was the Ripper...
Lol
Fredrick Deeming certainly seemed to go for a certain type of woman , from his wife to all the other women he romanced I have to say they were all very similar looking , a murderer he most certainly was but I don't believe he was the Ripper 😬
Me either.
Always wonderful to see another video from you Paul, thank you so much ❤
Sadly the only way we can find out who Jack the Ripper was is to own a Time Machine does anyone know the Doctor?
Doctor? Who?
You're looking for Tom Baker. 😊
Someone knew who he was. Unfortunately, they are dead and can’t tell
Yes! Jack the Ripper! He's the killer that first got me interested in investigating and learning about these kinds of things! Happy to see you talking about him :)
Same here! I think I was twelve when I saw a movie about Jack the Ripper. I went down a rabbit hole and never came back. 😂 I've read so many books on the psychology behind crimes like this I lost count. Fascinating stuff!
I don't believe Deeming was the Ripper. This recounting of Deeming shows he picked up and discarded people and things as soon as their benefit appeared to be over.
The Ripper on the other hand showed a particular rage in his "treatment" of those 5 women in Whitechapel, that Deeming did not.
I don't think for a second that he was JTR.
We'll probably never know for sure who he was, but I doubt it was this guy.
For a lot of years I thought it was Walter Sickert, but now I'm convinced it was Charles Lechmere
John Fiedler
He buried his family when he killed them. Jack the Ripper left his victims in the streets to be found. Even taunting the police with letters. I don't believe he was the Ripper. That polish guy, mentioned at the end, from what I have read, I always believed that he was the Ripper.
Based on what? I don't recall this suspect in the common list.
@@magnetictheory I do
@@magnetictheory Kosminsky may or may not have been the Ripper, but he is a commonly mentioned suspect.
Leaving one's victims where one finds them makes more sense if one is murdering strangers than if one is killing one's family.
By the end of the video, I was imagining Frederick and Jack having pints in a dark corner of a tavern, describing their gruesome crimes to each other. In hushed voices, they go into detail and admire each other's "work". Ugh.
Nah, Fred's in hell, while clever Jack made a deal with the devil and has been reincarnated as one of the most richest and most powerful men in the world.
Sandra you sound like you could be an author cause that would make a creepy story they both sitting there chatting chugging lol he'll that might how it was cause nobody really don't know the story the so called cops back in them days DNA wasn't even a thing al the technology today
@@beck86well don’t leave us hanging which one
And who might that be,@@beck86?
I have much worse to say than, "well I never" about this monster/man! Killing his two wives and four young children in cold blood... how does one become that depraved? 😢
I’ve never understood how anyone could kill their children, especially young ones. How could he look in their eyes and hold them while he killed them. How can any parent?
As to the Ripper I’ve always wondered if modern forensics have been applied to any surviving evidence and if not what would be revealed if the evidence was examined this way?
Right? Like my great aunt says "there is a crazy person for everything" unfortunately. Insane 😢
Unfortunately, unless the items were stored very carefully and according to modern evidence preservation procedure, it is highly unlikely that any remaining evidence of the case will yield results that are anything other than inconclusive. DNA evidence can survive decades, if stored correctly, but after 130 years, it is vanishingly unlikely, given how any evidence gathered at the time may have been stored, that any viable samples could be cultured in a lab.
Non-genetic evidence, such as hair samples, are likely to have survived, but is not likely to reveal any new information, as any possible suspects likely do not have stored samples still in existence after such a long period of time.
While modern forensics can do some very impressive things, the development of the field of forensic science since the time of Jack the Ripper would still be reliant on evidence gathered and stored in ways that are not conducive to the long-term survival of trace evidence which modern forensic science is excellent at analysing.
It's been said that forensics have proved conclusively that Aaron Kosminski was Jack The Ripper based on semen samples from a shawl worn by Catherine Eddowes. Look up the articles.
They definitely have to be psycho for sure. I could never understand it either.
A characteristic trait of psychopathic killers is a total lack of empathy.
Not convinced Deeming was the ripper'after all, just as now, there are/were plenty of murderous nutters about!😢
Just found this channel and I truly admire the way these stories are produced and your delivery. No fuss, no muss, just the facts!
I love your content, it is so interesting, but most of all I love how respectful you are to every case and every victim. I’ve recently seen some other creators who make awful jokes and have no idea how to treat this kind of material. I always point them to you as the gold standard! Thank you
I had a spell in which I began to obsess over the identity of Jack the Ripper, as I'm sure is common in this audience. It's one of history's most spectacular cases of vicious serial murder.
I decided that if I wanted to come to any conclusion about the identity of the killer, I'd have to make it my life's work.
It remains a big fascination to me, involving so much about English society at the time, poverty, crime investigation, misogyny, and other topics.
You’re not alone. My interest in JTR started when I was 8 years old, I’m 56 now and though I still find the case fascinating I’m nowhere near naming a killer. Fact is I believe there may have been two different killers. But that’s part of the fun I guess, the mystery in itself.
Today much of my time is focused on life in Victorian Whitechapel, foremost the victims life, and much less on the killers Identity.
@@Legionmint7091 It's a worthwhile addiction, isn't it? I do love a good murder mystery.
It's a waste of precious valuable Tme ! Time you will never get back and only on your deathbed are you going to realise you will have absolutely nothing to show for all that Time you gave away ! Which is why most people in life sell their Time ! its just to valuable to give it away ! even the storyteller your giving away your time too right now ! Is somehow someway on the clock !
@@vinnyvincent2862 That's an interesting point of view. I don't exactly agree with you, but I appreciate what you're saying.
@@vinnyvincent2862 And so did you by writing that post, right?
Of course! A real monster. Murdering his children is the worst crime. No one sane does that!
Deeming was just a monster, and few Victorians remembered him before Channel 7 Melbourne did a biography about this in the early 2000's. Unless you're a JTR fan, Deeming has mostly been forgotten again. Some of my ancestors were born & lived in Windsor. Very few Victorians believed Deeming was JTR, he was just a monster who isn't Jack.
My great great Uncle was Dr William Sedgwick Saunders ( Medical Officer of Health and Analyst to the City of London) who testified at the inquest of Catherine Eddowes.
You are my favorite storyteller Mr. Brody, you are not allowed to ever leave me 😝 Love all your topics . Let’s do tea one day. Mahalo 🌸
A braw Scottish accent 👍🏴🏴
My personal favourite theory for the identity of Jack the ripper is always going to be Charles Allen Lechmere (cross). But this was quite compelling
Lechmere is my guess too. I'm convinced he was caught in the act (the night of the double event) just down the street from where his mother lived & acted like he'd just found the body.
But as you say, this was very compelling & a great video as always.
Oh, absolutely. He fits perfectly.
I've no idea why anyone would regard Lechmere as the best candidate whatsoever. Beyond that misinformation-filled channel 5 documentary, there's absolutely zero evidence for him having been the man.
I see your username... Trying to throw suspicion off yourself huh? 👀👀 🤣
I agree
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It was more than likely a complete non entity that no one has noticed.🇺🇸
Very eloquently narrated and very interesting. Thank you.
Fuck. Jim Jordan's been up to no good for a long time.
Seriously, though this guy is not Jack the Ripper.
Kaminsky (not Kosminski) was the ripper
I don’t think Deeming was Jack the ripper. But he has always fasciated me. Different MO.
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You rock Paul. One of the best along with Brief Case you guys are great
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@@joyspettigue2855Love it. So straight forward. What he does is all he needs.
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Hallie Rubenhold wrote an excellent book about Jack the Ripper’s victims titled The Five.
It’s a great book! My sister got it for me for Christmas, and I was very impressed that it had a source for everything she talked about. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in Jack the Ripper.
It's the first book I know of about the victims. Compare with the HUNDREDS about their killer.
Ironically, if anyone had given a crap about the victims and what really happened when they were attacked (most likely he simply attacked women asleep in the street, like any homeless basher today), they would have had a better chance of catching him.
I’m still convinced it was Aaron Kosminski. And most modern day detectives and criminal profilers name him.
Agreed! Always recommend it! It's a shame that most people know about that monster, as it usually happens with serial killers, but not about the victims. Those poor women deserve to be remembered. They won't have justice, but at least their names should not be forgotten.
She has done a great podcast available on BBC Sounds called Bad Women based on her book.
Just a nutter! Not Jack!!
Bruce Robinson's "They All Love Jack" (2015) is an EXTREMELY compelling argument for the true identity of the Ripper. He might have gotten it right.
In some ways he sounds like a fine candidate and you bring it together well at the end for both sides (you guys are awesome), but I think he falls short as a suspect because anger over getting syphilis or not, the many crimes he is actually known to have committed were related to money. The Ripper, unless he owned a paper or was a tour guide, wasn't getting wealthy from his murders. They seemed to just be about murder.
And this guy got himself syphilis! Blaguard!
Oh my goodness, those poor little children 😢😢😢😢😢
Francis Tumblety in his old age died being cared for by Nun's they recorded his belongings of which were two small rings believed to have belonged to one of the victims.
Your relaxed style no arm wafting is sublime sir !
They made quality paper bags back then he would need them for that woman
very interesting episode as always, BUT the profiling doesn't match at all Jack the ripper: Deeming was interested in money, very focused on disguising himself to put one foot in the door of rich people (the mining scam, the second wife..). He had no interest in butchering older alcoholic prostitutes for the joy of displaying their organs and taunting the newspapers. the syphilis thing was just to try the "not sane" card, his only chance to being not executed. But WHAT about the "German sailor theory"? Once I read that every Jack's homicide was made in the same day a German ship arrived in London, and other elements matched. Did someone knows more about this theory? Thank you.
@agostinodublino1387 Interesting ...but I only know the German suspect name Carl Feigenbaum (alias Anton Zahn
@@Baz-Ten thank you, maybe it's him! He killed prostitutes everywhere. I have to read that book about him..
Paul sounds Scottish to me. 😊
666th thumb up, better than first.
Certainly not Jack the ripper. Anyone who would be that boastful of themselves could not be as calculated and precise, as well as staying anonymous. In my opinion lol.
I remember watching a documentary about a possible suspect that was never at the top of the list. A butcher working at a nearby abattoir, I believe.
Could be a butcher as they have the skill .Jay Robert Nash in his book on unsolved murders believed the Ripper was a doctor. Some paranormal investigators once did a seance think at the former home of James and Florence May Rick.Anyways they asked James if he was Jack the Ripper, to which the ghost of James replied an emphatic No!!
I saw a documentary naming a butcher as a top suspect.
@@hildahilpert5018 traveling butcher and meat seller who moved about the area .former chief detective and a Finnish investigative reporter who spent 20 years of study put it together
Awesome vid ..this guy was a monster.but he wasnT JTR.JTR would have known all the back alleys in London city,Spitalfields and Whitechapel like the back of his hand.I believe he lived in Greenfield rd. not far from Berner st and the London hospital.
What does "Well, l never" mean?
It's short form for, "Well, I never heard of such a thing!" Used when you hear of something especially shocking. 😱
We all have our opinions on who jtr was, but no one will ever know for sure, we think some pieces of the puzzle all fit but there is something that will not fit. I am afraid that this will be a mystery forever.
I don't think Deeming was even in the country for all of the murders. He was certainly another nutter, though.
I don’t think he was the ripper. His killings weren’t as mutilated as the Ripper’s was. He just doesn’t stand out to me for the Ripper
The thing is serial killers typically don’t just stop
They do when the Vorlons finally let them die after 500+ years :P
I don’t think we’ll ever truly know who was “Jack the Ripper”. But I can’t help loving to hear theories and both pros and cons. Ready to dive in to this one!
I want to know what the police know.They knew who that Jewish guy identified and would not testify against.They also pulled all their extra guys off the street to minute.The Polish dude was put in the mental hospital.So there's so many good candidates for this guy but I think the government was hip
If you watched the documentary Making the Case for the Australian Ripper: Frederick Bailey Deeming ; retired Scotland Yard detective Robert Napper outlines his theories very clearly and logically.
More like the Ripper of Australia..
He definitely looks like the Police drawing of the Ripper. If he can butcher his own children with a Knife then i suppose he could easily Butcher those 5 poor Women in WhiteChapel. Unfortunately we will never know.
Is Simon Whistler's dad Scottish?
Hey, love your channel. I came across a canal disaster in my hometown of Paisley and thought it might be interesting for a video, there’s not much about it on RUclips.
Deeming, If you become your own lawyer, you have a fool for a client.
Another great one Paul, although the pictures didn't seem to be the same man, the moustachioed man did not seem to have the same long chin. I really enjoy your delivery. Thank you for all your hard work.
I have watched many a documentary about Jack the Ripper and have read books on the subject. Most recently I watched a documentary where a relatively new technique was used called geographical profiling. And, if I remember correctly, this profiling technique pointed right at Kosminsky. It was very interesting.
Kosminsky is a good fit for the geographic profile, but so are others, such as George Chapman, Jacob Levy, David Cohen, and George Hutchinson.
@@Lana.S.Boyd49 Cool. 😊
Well I never. Here I am sitting in Beverley, and I had no idea about a ripper suspect connection. Gonna have to look up where he stayed now. Great vid, as always :)
Well, I Never... will believe your propostion that Fredrick Bailey was Jack the Ripper as my two bob is still on Aaron Kosminski
I’m convinced it’s Kosminski.
I'm not convinced that it was anyone, but Kosminski and Deeming are both possibilities.
I doubt Deeming was Jack. However, he could've been responsible for other murders that might've been mistakenly attributed to the Ripper.
Love hearing you tell the stories.
This murderer didn't come close to fitting profile of " jack the ripper" though.
Jack the Ripper was Aleister Crowley. They both have the same timeline and location where these events happened. There was a great documentary on this. Yes, it was Aleister the evil beast.
This theory of who was Jack the Ripper, is more feasible than some!
God will reveal all the mysteries when we die. Including what happened to most of my TV remotes. How come lots of pairs of socks I own have a hole in one of them and then over night a hole in the exact same place appears on the other one. Most crucially of all and perhaps the biggest of all the mysteries - Why do people keep thumbing down my youtube comments? Head scratcher that one.
@Ronskie66 ha ha! When the time is right it will be revealed that the socks showed evidence of being worn inside out
@@Baz-TenWell, I never!
I think Deeming and the Ripper may have met somewhere in Whitecapel
What a fascinating video, so glad it appeared in my feed!
Why is the Ripper always depicted as a noble man of wealth wearing a top hat and cape? Truth is he likely fit right in with the rest of the Whitechapel riffraff.
13:15 That is some OG clickbait. "Did we PREDICT who the Ripper was? Our sketch artists thinks so, DO YOU? Page 6 to find out!"
Laughing at the whole "See? We drew the same suspect years ago" angle. Now that is how you sell some newspapers!
You are so perfect for this, if i was looking for someone to pay to speak, i would not look further than you, your amazing, sad about the subject, glad you're telling the story, so many suspects i often wonder if a group of ...like minded psychopaths got together, one is absolutely placed at one of the scenes, this guy is definitely pure evil, i am in Tasmania under Australia, i think we know a lot of violence has been happening in Sydney lately. I just feel like there was more than one, 💔💔💔😔.
That's not the ripper! 🎉
A: he wouldn't have been so clumsy to be caught
B: he'd never wear a false moustache/hair piece 😂
I reckon he was a northern (English) bloke Jack Tripper, but because he was from Leeds he said Jack T rRpper. Bloomin northerners 😅
Very good 👏
Isn’t it absolutely crazy that Jack the Ripper got away with his crimes?
Love this channel ❤️
Further information: There are at least 14 people on record who saw the various White Chapel victims speaking to their killer no more than 30 minutes to an hour before the body was found. And it's very clear by their independent descriptions, that all of them are describing the same individual. With that in mind, please be aware of the following known facts.
1. serial killers often change their method of operation. It's part of their devious personality, and a well documented phenomenon. And in Deeming's case it came out of acts of desperation. He was a bigamist. And when her money ran dry, he either killed her, or he bolted. In one such case, the wife tracked him down. And this resulted in her murder, along with the murders of his own children.
2. Deeming's wives and children variously, either A) had their throats cut 'twice' (precisely the same as the Ripper victims) or B) were hit in the head with a small axe of the exact size that was used in the butchering of the Ripper's fifth victim.
3. Jack the Ripper muzzled his victims using handkerchiefs doused in an early form of chloroform. (They found one such handkerchief left behind at the site of one of his victims.) More such handkerchiefs were also found by the Australian authorities in the pockets of a peacoat in Frederick Bailey Deeming's possession. And all were doused in the same early form of chloroform. By the way, the peacoat was covered in dried human blood. Australian authorities also found two hats. Both matching eyewitness descriptions, re: the White Chapel killings. And there were also numerous newspaper articles Deeming kept, re: the killings in White Chapel. Using a fountain pen, he made notations on these papers, repeatedly mocking eyewitness accounts of his 'carroty mustache.' When Deeming was arrested by the Australian authorities, the first thing he did was take a broken bottle from the floor of his cell, and shave off his mustache. Yet, there were no witnesses to his crimes in Australia, and therefore no need for him to change his appearance. You can see he was interrupted in this action if you look at the photo of Deeming routinely presented in this video.
4. There was also a small box found in Deeming's possession which held a small axe and several knives; all covered in dried human blood. Two such knives -- or surgical instruments -- exactly like those used in the Ripper killings, were taken by Deeming to a local diamond cutter in Australia for cleaning. He told them they were covered in animal blood. But they quickly determined it was human blood and contacted the police. And none of the killings Deeming was ultimately arrested for in Australia involved surgical knives. i.e. these were not the knives used to cut the throats. But they were reported to have been the specific type of knives used in the disembowelment process associated with the killings in White Chapel.
5. Pathologists at Scotland Yard traveled by boat to Australia and conferred with the Australian pathologists, and all agreed that both Deeming's victims as well as the victims in White Chapel, were both killed by the same hand.
6. It has also been confirmed by documentation in possession of the Australian historical society (whom maintain the former insane asylum where Deeming was hung), that Deeming was not in South Africa at the time of the murders in the White Chapel area. Additionally, he was also not jailed. He was actually working for a dressmaker very near the White Chapel area. And during the White Chapel killings, one of his coworkers notified Scotland Yard that Deeming showed her newspaper reports of the killings in White Chapel, and mocked the police for not knowing as much about the killings as they should.
7. At least three of the eye witnesses who reported the person last seen with one of the five White Chapel victims, specifically notated that in addition to speaking to the victim, he seemed to be speaking to someone who was not present. Someone over his shoulder. When Deeming was arrested and placed in a cell, he immediately began speaking to someone who was not there. This turned out to be his deceased mother.
7. Deeming confessed. To his attorney and his doctor, he stated that the first of the White Chapel victims had given him neurosyphilis. This was his motive for all five killings.
8. To this very day Scotland Yard and The Crown each tell people than when the killer is revealed, it will be a Polish Jew. Today, you could probably find a person who matches all the eye witness reports (Caucasian with red hair), who is both Polish and Jewish. But in 1888, there was no such animal. And they know it. They are embarrassed because he was right under their nose the entire time. And they do not want the world knowing that the most infamous serial killer in history, was an Englishman.
9. Two of the Scotland Yard inspectors associated with the original investigation, notated in their memoirs that the killer was caught and was hung in an asylum. They did not notate the location of said asylum. Many Ripperologists merely assume it was somewhere in London. Deeming was hung in an asylum in Australia that doubled as a prison.
10. Frederick Bailey Deeming reportedly showed signs of psychosis from a very young age. And was actually a murder suspect at the age of 9.
11. When Deeming was arrested in Australia, two of the eye witnesses to the White Chapel murders returned to Scotland Yard with copies of newspapers with his photo prominently displayed on the front page, and identified Deeming as the man they saw speaking to the victim.
11. There's so much more. Most researchers either discount it because there's simply too much information for their minds to process, or because they have their precious conspiracy theory and they have a book to sell. But the shortest distance between two points in any investigation, always turns to be a straight line. And Deeming was right there. Right underneath their noses. And the more you research multiple sources of documentation in those killings, the more you see it could only have been Frederick Bailey Deeming.
"The passengers recalled Mr. Williams as ostentatious, boastful.... and loud." It was the last one that did it, wasn't it? Ostentatious and boastful is fine... (just with an inside voice, please!)
What do you all think of the theory that HH Holmes was the ripper?
Not much. There's no similarity except that they killed people.
I don't see any more reason to suspect that he was the Ripper than to suspect any other American murderer that was alive at the time.