What skills did Jack the Ripper have or use?

Question

What skills did he have?
What skills did he use?
Why were the police outwitted by him?
Why was he never caught?

Answer 1

It would appear he was at least trained in surgical circles, he had a great understanding of the human anatomy.
He was able to remove organs very efficiantly.
He outwitted the police due to the fact they were witless, their investiagation methods were somewhat primative.
He was never caught either because he gave up before he got caught, he died or more likely he was commited to a mental home for some unrelated reason.

Answer 2

Jack the Ripper was very skilled medically. Either that or he was a butcher. He was able to remove internal body parts very precisely so therefore would possibly had some sort of skills in these professions.

I feel the police with lack of DNA would have struggled to track him down therefore that why he was never caught

Answer 3

Jack the Ripper is a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England in the latter half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings.

The legends surrounding the Ripper murders have become a combination of genuine historical research, conspiracy theory and folklore. The lack of a confirmed identity for the killer(s) has allowed Ripperologists — the term used within the field for the authors, historians and amateur detectives who study the case — to accuse a wide variety of individuals of being the Ripper. Newspapers, whose circulation had been growing during this era, bestowed widespread and enduring notoriety on the killer owing to the savagery of the attacks and the failure of the police in their attempts to capture the Ripper, sometimes missing the murderer at his crime scenes by mere minutes.

Victims were women earning income as casual prostitutes. Typical Ripper murders were perpetrated in a public or semi-public place; the victim's throat was cut, after which the body was mutilated. Some believe that the victims were first strangled in order to silence them. The removal of internal organs from some victims has led to the proposal that the killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge or skill.

Answer 4

apparently he had butchery skills because the corpses were disembowelled very neatly. Only someone with butchery knowledge could have done that.
You must remember in those days that the knowledge of fingerprint identification didn't exist, nor DNA - therefore it was 'old fashioned' policing that was used to try and track him. There were few witnesses, however. Street lights were dim. There was not the universal intelligence-gathering that we have now ... for all we know, he may have struck many times before in other areas but no-one connected these murders.

Answer 5

There are so many theories, each one convincing as the last it's hard to tell. However he just vanished into thin air, whether he was a foreigner and returned to wherever he came from or committed suicide or died naturally nobody knows. Is the Scotland Yard file open to the public?

Answer 6

He showed a disturbingly good knowledge of anatomy, such as you would only expect an experienced surgeon to possess.

He also has a weird sense of humour, judging by what he left on one lady's mantle piece.

He didn't like women very much, THAT'S for sure.

No DNA testing in those days, of course.

Answer 7

in order to commit the crimes he did, he had to have a pretty good knowledge of medical & surgical practices, human anatomy, and some others

one of the reasons that he was never caught was the exactness that he carved up the prostitutes and the speed at which he was able to do it that kept him from the police...and back then there was not as much forensic technology as we have now

Answer 8

An obvious skill he had was a knowledge of human anatomy.
The police were outwitted by him due to incompetent investigators and archaic methods.

Answer 9

No one can answer any of those questions affirmatively because know one actually knows - here is a list of what is known and some theories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_ripper

Good Luck!!!

Answer 10

He had many skills, such as mind-control, levitation, invisibility and the power to control the weather. Thats why he wasn't caught.