Could Jack the Ripper have been a female and the reason he/she wasn't caught...?

Question

Because Scotland yard was looking for a male. Knowing what we know now about female serial killers...My theory is that she was a middle-aged female, with some medical training (possibly a mid-wife), with anger issues, overly religious and had strength comparable to a 19th century man. What do you think???

I agree that most serial killers have been men. For the most part women kill for different reasons than me. Look at Eileen Wournos and some black widow examples. Females are rewriting the history books when it comes to serial killing.

so...women are not capable of killing other women???

Answer 1

It has been suggested before--in fact Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) suggested the mid-wife possibility at the time of the crimes.

And btw, Patricia Cornwell is most definitely not a Medical Examiner, and her theory and book are extremely weak.

Answer 2

hi J.B. The case became on no account closed. one hundred years on and crime investigators are nonetheless trawling via all of the data via fact it is been released via Scotland backyard decrease than the liberty of information act. 3 contemporary books reassess the case, pointing the finger in turn at Walter Sickert, Francis Tumblety, and Carl Feigenbaum. would desire to one in all those men have been Jack the Ripper? The authors are : In Portrait of a Killer, crime author Patricia Cornwell named artist Walter Sickert as Jack the Ripper. Paul Gainey’s 1995 e book, Jack the Ripper: First American Serial Killer, believes Francis Tumblety became Jack. the main contemporary “new” Jack the Ripper suspect became presented via author Trevor Mariott in his 2007 novel, Jack the Ripper. in case you have an pastime in looking out greater approximately JTR verify out hte websites decrease than. good luck, Cathorio.

Answer 3

Read Patricia Cornwell's "Jack The Ripper, Case Closed". She is an author and medical examiner. She went to London and researched the case including getting DNA from the stamps the ripper used to send letters to Scotland Yard. The artist she says is the ripper did drawings of the crime scenes and the only way he could have done so is if he were at the scene.

Answer 4

Last report I heard on The History Channel a few months back was that they were relatively certain that the killer was the Queen's personal physician, Sir William Gull. But, most of the evidence had either disintegrated or is too fragile to perform tests necessary to confirm this. Although, I can't say this is the truth one way or another...

Answer 5

No. Although women can and do kill other women, they do it for different reasons. They don't tend to kill randomly the way serial killers do.

Answer 6

Aren't serial killers almost always male. That would probably through a big hole in the probability of your theory being right.

Answer 7

Jack the ripper was a man because my research also shows that he killed women only.

Answer 8

the police should stop eating doughnuts and get right on that