The Rainham Mystery - Lechmere and the Thames Torso Murders

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  • Опубликовано: 25 янв 2025

Комментарии • 87

  • @BeverleyMedlin
    @BeverleyMedlin Год назад +10

    Astonishing,and absolutely gripping. Well done Mr Stow!

  • @vieuphoria1008
    @vieuphoria1008 11 месяцев назад +10

    Your investigations are so thoroughly researched. I really appreciate the detail you give essential, leaving no stone unturned!

  • @Ghosts-of-York
    @Ghosts-of-York 2 года назад +11

    This is far better than TV...

    • @Eline_Meijer
      @Eline_Meijer 10 месяцев назад +1

      espacially british tv

  • @eleanorofaquitaine1201
    @eleanorofaquitaine1201 4 года назад +16

    Great video! Whoever is holding the camera is a real champ!

  • @hetaera3418
    @hetaera3418 3 года назад +14

    Excellent video. I honestly had no idea that there were so many torso murders! And I must admit that although I discovered your channel from the perspective of dismissing Lechmere as a strong JTR suspect you are gradually challenging my conviction, so well done you!

  • @tonygamblin4072
    @tonygamblin4072 4 года назад +17

    Captivating subject matter. Content-wise, this is superior to much of the BBC's output, which is quite an achievement. The Beeb has ample resources, yet seeks to entertain first (usually featuring a celebrity presenter) and educate second. Good standard of photography too.

  • @AlexaLake1
    @AlexaLake1 4 года назад +9

    Edward, thank you for another fascinating video.

  • @joanware6473
    @joanware6473 Год назад +3

    Thank you that is intriguing, still finding your older videos.

  • @brianbommarito3376
    @brianbommarito3376 3 года назад +9

    10:53 William Thomas Stead, the journalist, I knew exactly who you were talking about before watching the rest of the video. One of the Titanic’s prominent victims, he had written and edited a number of periodicals on various subjects. He was very prolific and interested in a wide number of subjects, including political reform and the occult. He had also done an article on the prostitution rings. No doubt he would’ve found modern research on the Ripper crimes to be very interesting.

  • @Frenchblue8
    @Frenchblue8 4 года назад +8

    could watch/ listen to this stuff all day long, altho Ive no idea why. Thank you so much. Back to Lechmere, I guess, access to icehouses??

  • @gooseware4937
    @gooseware4937 3 года назад +7

    Fascinating as usual thank you.

  • @MladenPostruznik
    @MladenPostruznik 2 месяца назад +2

    Please, don't be offended, but I would definitely watch with pleasure a channel where you guide us around London.

  • @Jack-hy1zq
    @Jack-hy1zq Год назад +4

    Love your channel 👍

  • @Rumpelstyltskin
    @Rumpelstyltskin 4 года назад +8

    Riveting, keep up the good work.

  • @calliesoutherland2595
    @calliesoutherland2595 4 года назад +6

    Excellent! This is so interesting!

  • @ryanwilson368
    @ryanwilson368 Год назад +8

    It would be interesting to see the bags that they were found in, and then compared to the bags that the local businesses used like the cat meat factory!!

    • @ryanwilson368
      @ryanwilson368 Год назад +5

      I can’t find any info into what packaging lechmere used with his meat delivery for Pickfords could it have been a canvas bag?..
      Also did the cat meat factory use canvas bags?
      He must have acquired the packaging to wrap the bodies from somewhere .. this could be a big clue that no one has looked into yet? ..

    • @titanman9000
      @titanman9000 Год назад +2

      @@ryanwilson368yep! Such a reference would be valuable..

    • @rogemsilva3802
      @rogemsilva3802 Год назад +1

      I think that's very important information

    • @RegHoldsworth-ri7hh
      @RegHoldsworth-ri7hh Месяц назад

      Burlap sacks

  • @Renfair333
    @Renfair333 4 года назад +24

    Interesting that the killer kept the thigh for longer as the thing that most haunts me about the Mary Kelly photos is the almost complete denuding of the thighs.

    • @Agathanagatha
      @Agathanagatha 4 года назад +12

      Yes your right that picture was just too much.to think someone got pleasure by sitting there stripping the flesh off that poor woman is just impossible to comprehend

    • @Frenchblue8
      @Frenchblue8 3 года назад +10

      @@Agathanagatha it is indeed. I think if it weren't for that photo, even as old as it is, even in black and white....... I tend to have had the same reaction after several years of considering what happened in that little room, that should have been so cozy or could have been.... as the author and ex cop who's in all the ripper documentaries.... That for the first time that we know of, Jack/lechmere had basically all the time in the world, hours and hours just to do every disgusting thing to that poor woman, both pre and post-mortem and I just think he got up and left when he was done. And after that he was never going to be wanting to slash some woman's stomach in the street or in an alley again because that could never satisfy if you know what I'm saying. It would be like riding a tricycle after mastering a three-speed. it was like his piece de resistance, his last symphony as horrible as that is. It's just.... I keep thinking how come nobody saw him leave, nobody saw him come out that door!! His luck was uncanny and only deserted him during the first of the canonical five murders, Polly Nichols. But he managed to slither out of that one because Jack was a clever bugger and no two ways about it. The bastard.

    • @johnmichaelson9173
      @johnmichaelson9173 2 года назад +5

      @@Frenchblue8 Jack must have been covered in blood, shit & bits of flesh/organs so he either had a change of clothes with him or something like an apron that could've covered his clothes. If he had neither how he managed to get home without being noticed is beyond me Mary Kelly's room had no running water. Who ever the real culprit is his family must have had some idea he was the Ripper simply because of the washing of himself & his clothes.

    • @kimberlywalker_
      @kimberlywalker_ 2 года назад +4

      He also left their thighs exposed - most of their bodies dresses were pulled up then down just enough but left the thighs exposed. I do wonder if there was some improper relationship between Charles and his mother. He was never good enough. She was always pushing him aside for another man. His fixation on loose women pulling their dresses up. Did mom pull up her dress in front of him? Just thoughts/theories.

    • @AJ-zx8by
      @AJ-zx8by Год назад +3

      The picture of MK is one of the reasons I never looked too deep into this case. The thought of seeing that picture again terrifies me. I saw the the man who did the autopsy ended up committing suicide - Dr. Thomas Bond. If they could have just left those horrific pictures and images out one could look at the logic of this situation if there is any. Just like Edward is showing us to by looking at suspects and the locations and the maps and no horrific pictures.

  • @alainprostbis
    @alainprostbis 4 года назад +7

    Great video once again!
    Do you have some statistics in England for the occurence of murders of women by knife that went unsolved around london at the end of the 19th century? Are we looking at hignly rare events or was that a violent time with quite a few women being found dead?

  • @titanman9000
    @titanman9000 Год назад +2

    Does that canal flow to the river Thames?? Could everything have been dropped in the canal and then some pieces floated like packages 📦 and some sink into canal? Also some pieces dropped in at different times according to decay

  • @walkawaycat431
    @walkawaycat431 4 года назад +5

    Woohoo! New episode 💜

  • @nikola4107
    @nikola4107 4 года назад +3

    You are back !

  • @koont666
    @koont666 2 года назад +2

    Thank you for your very in-depth research ,better than those awful telly jobs 🍀🇬🇧👍

  • @petercleary1000
    @petercleary1000 2 года назад +2

    Good work 👏

  • @randygandhi
    @randygandhi 3 года назад +6

    Clearly the Rainham Torso was diposed of hoping it would be washed out to sea & not be found ,where as the other body parts were deposed of with the possibility that they would be found.It does seem to be rather a lot of mileage covered by the perpetrator unless of course he was a delivery man on his rounds.

  • @seanbouk
    @seanbouk Год назад +4

    I have started to subscribe to the Lechmere theory but it seems like this killer didn’t want the body to be found and the other murders were displayed

    • @thehouseoflechmere9407
      @thehouseoflechmere9407  Год назад +3

      I think he knew that the parts would be found after being washed up on the shore - from experience. And I think the piecemeal nature of the findings gave him an extra thrill.

  • @karenwilson9528
    @karenwilson9528 3 года назад +4

    I heard that one of the Jack The Ripper victims, either one of the main 5 or one of the previous 2, was known for telling people she was a survivor of the Princess Alice disaster to get relief. She made other false claims to receive alms also. ( I think it was the lady found on the first floor stairs early hours of the morning in late August 1888.) But it was definitely one of them.

  • @marynazajda5719
    @marynazajda5719 2 года назад +6

    I think lechemere family were making cat food from victims

  • @anthonykology1728
    @anthonykology1728 Год назад +2

    that mud might be holding more secrets...

  • @DirtySanchez943
    @DirtySanchez943 Месяц назад +1

    Its a dirty work but someones got to do it, thanks mate 👍 👌 😊😊😊

  • @DirtySanchez943
    @DirtySanchez943 Месяц назад +1

    17:18 - UFO 🛸 😊😊😊

    • @cutekanjii
      @cutekanjii Месяц назад

      Noticed that too lol. Way it's moving around looks like how a reflection would move. So I'm not sure if it's something to do with the filming a reflection of a light in the camera lens or something. It does look like it's behind him in the sky though, so 🤷

  • @WadeRaney-vv5oi
    @WadeRaney-vv5oi 9 месяцев назад +2

    👍 as Usual 😉

  • @allenrj1
    @allenrj1 2 года назад +3

    Were these these victims actually Ripper victims whilst learning his trade before the canonical five victims in Whitechapel ? He had to have started earlier than1888 to ensure his crimes would work. similarly he would have to have ongoing murders intent well past November in 1888. Has there been ant evidence (primitive as it may have been to suggest the Ripper started before 1888 and continued post November 1888). If this person had physical evidence that he had well known human anatomy skills and disection skills, surely the Ripper murders timeline should exist before 1888 and extend well beyond 1888.

  • @Louiseskybunker
    @Louiseskybunker Год назад +1

    Can you investigate the ginger beer factory in Whitechapel from 1887

  • @DirtySanchez943
    @DirtySanchez943 Месяц назад +1

    If only river could talk 👄 😪 😔 😕 🤧 😫 😢

  • @stevedavenport2975
    @stevedavenport2975 Год назад +3

    Shame you can't dig under lechmered home

  • @patrickpayne8330
    @patrickpayne8330 Год назад

    Good and another interesting post....have you ever thought that the culprit involved could have been a student studying "a body" for surgical or medical reason's...then.. disposed if it.??...and not a murder... just an idea to throw into the equation

  • @DirtySanchez943
    @DirtySanchez943 Месяц назад

    It was definitely Saucy Jack at work!!!😢😢😢

  • @rogerscottcathey
    @rogerscottcathey 2 месяца назад +1

    An amazing amount of labor going hither and yon to suss out these details, and, with probative ties to your suspect. More and more one cannot escape the suspicion his own mother could hardly have not wondered about her son. He must have been highly self controlled to have been able to indulge his blood lust and yet seen to both attending his mother, his children and keeping a job.
    It must have seemed to him a matter of logical actions with hardly any morally significant consequence . . . They were all whores. The "dregs" of the lowest of classes. Yet his letter ir letters, indicate he believed "meat is meat" . . . the eating of which was akin to cat food. Either that, his "Dear boss" letter was introduced for merely shock value . . . Undoubtedly he was sadistic, while also seeing his victims as equivalent to horse flesh meant for cat meat. Maybe even seeing his actions as a public service . . . An insane man. A weird genius, yet not without an exagerated sense of extraordinary luck . . . or even Providence, on his side . . seeing the close calls from which he realized he'd escaped significant notice.

  • @brianbanks703
    @brianbanks703 6 месяцев назад

    your government also imprisoned Stead, who was a spiritualist as well as owner of newspapers

  • @DirtySanchez943
    @DirtySanchez943 Месяц назад +1

    Body parts???😮😱😖😣😞😓

  • @CarlStJohn-x9w
    @CarlStJohn-x9w 11 месяцев назад

    Maybe these were used by doctors for medical experience then discarded in the river ?

  • @FrankJGZ
    @FrankJGZ 2 года назад +1

    So what do these murders have to do with Lechmere?

  • @colinmcewen9530
    @colinmcewen9530 Год назад

    i dont think it was the same killer as the ripper murders jack was a risk taker this guys not and jack killed in one area this guy went all oer londen

  • @Louiseskybunker
    @Louiseskybunker Год назад

    Bramwell Booth went to jail for it too,

  • @lucylou6143
    @lucylou6143 Год назад

    Terrible sound quality

  • @chickenhappy3607
    @chickenhappy3607 2 года назад +1

    How is Lechmere or the Ripper case relevant to this case?its not even the same MO..must you resort to clickbait for views?

    • @Jack-hy1zq
      @Jack-hy1zq Год назад +1

      Yes, I think this presentation fails to distinguish between the things that we know and the things that we do not know. These torso murders simply do not fit his MO at all. An unfortunate distraction from what we actually, already know. Lechmere is the strongest suspect. I think he was
      Jack The Ripper

  • @shahlamajidi7719
    @shahlamajidi7719 3 года назад +1

    Lechmere was a butcher at one time.

    • @paulanthony5274
      @paulanthony5274 3 года назад

      Yes,i have seen that but can't remember where,do you have a link or source to this information please.

    • @JaySamurai79
      @JaySamurai79 3 года назад +1

      @@paulanthony5274 There's a documentary called "The missing evidence"

    • @paulanthony5274
      @paulanthony5274 3 года назад +1

      @@JaySamurai79 Thanks mate,ive seen that,i was referring to the butcher part

    • @JaySamurai79
      @JaySamurai79 3 года назад

      @@paulanthony5274 No problem. If you find that butcher info could you also drop me the link. I'll also keep a look out.

    • @paulanthony5274
      @paulanthony5274 3 года назад +1

      @@JaySamurai79 Will do pal,thanks!

  • @philipsanders5024
    @philipsanders5024 7 месяцев назад

    Interesting story but not very well told, bit of a boring cove !!! River police station is actually upstream from the Wellington ,not as the geezer said further down the river!!!

  • @andrewcorlett4795
    @andrewcorlett4795 3 года назад

    Give it a rest man