Comments on: Jack the Ripper: Not solved yet http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/07/14/jack-the-ripper-not-solved-yet/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:15:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: No geek is an island » Whatever happened to Jack the Ripper? http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/07/14/jack-the-ripper-not-solved-yet/#comment-18134 No geek is an island » Whatever happened to Jack the Ripper? Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:47:57 +0000 http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/07/14/jack-the-ripper-not-solved-yet/#comment-18134 [...] Last week’s story about Aaron Kosminski piqued my interest and so at the weekend I watched Jack the Ripper, a three hour long 1980s TV adaptation of the story, starring Michael Caine. While taking care in places to feature lots of detail from the time, for the sake of drama it also takes some significant liberties with the truth and, like most dramatisations, has to identify a culprit (whose identity was somewhat given away by the order in which the cast was billed). Caine does well enough, but it can’t be said his protrayal of Frederick Abberline is any more realistic than Johnny Depp’s. [...] [...] Last week’s story about Aaron Kosminski piqued my interest and so at the weekend I watched Jack the Ripper, a three hour long 1980s TV adaptation of the story, starring Michael Caine. While taking care in places to feature lots of detail from the time, for the sake of drama it also takes some significant liberties with the truth and, like most dramatisations, has to identify a culprit (whose identity was somewhat given away by the order in which the cast was billed). Caine does well enough, but it can’t be said his protrayal of Frederick Abberline is any more realistic than Johnny Depp’s. [...]

]]> By: Matt http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/07/14/jack-the-ripper-not-solved-yet/#comment-18088 Matt Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:47:57 +0000 http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/07/14/jack-the-ripper-not-solved-yet/#comment-18088 Kosminski is also evaluated as a suspect in Philip Sugden's definitive 'Complete History of Jack the Ripper', and dismissed. The Swanson marginalia were published in 1987 in the Telegraph, so the Times article offers nothing new to "Ripperologists". That Swanson was so definite about Kosminski's identity adds some weight to the case that he was the Ripper, but there is no available evidence factually linking Kosminski to any of the murders. Sugden prefers George Chapman as the chief suspect. Anyway, we have all been told that Walter Sickert was the Ripper, as Patrica Cornwell definitively proved to her own satisfaction (if no-one else's) in her hubristically titled 'Case Closed'. Kosminski is also evaluated as a suspect in Philip Sugden’s definitive ‘Complete History of Jack the Ripper’, and dismissed. The Swanson marginalia were published in 1987 in the Telegraph, so the Times article offers nothing new to “Ripperologists”. That Swanson was so definite about Kosminski’s identity adds some weight to the case that he was the Ripper, but there is no available evidence factually linking Kosminski to any of the murders. Sugden prefers George Chapman as the chief suspect.

Anyway, we have all been told that Walter Sickert was the Ripper, as Patrica Cornwell definitively proved to her own satisfaction (if no-one else’s) in her hubristically titled ‘Case Closed’.

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