WEBVTT - The Real How Jack the Ripper Worked 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.800 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.480 It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:16.720 from how Stuff works dot com. You've heard the rumors before, 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:21.720 perhaps and whispers written between the lines of the textbooks. Conspiracies, 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:26.600 paranormal events, all those things that disappear from the official explanations. 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.360 Tune in and learn more of this stuff they don't 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.920 want you to know in this video podcast from how 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:43.160 Stuff works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.080 I'm Josh Clark with me as always as Charles W. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:51.479 Chuck Bryant. I love England. Yeah, we're partying outside of 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:57.160 the Britannia Pub. It's Saturday September alright, Chu, Yeah, I 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.600 feel a little funny in my modern clothes, but everyone 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.800 seems to accept us. Yeah, they're pretty wasted, Chuck, and 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.760 I think they've noticed yet. Yes, uh we uh, we 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.400 came back here because we're about to stumble upon the 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.520 second victim of Jack the Ripper, and please don't hold 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.600 it against us. Part of our contract for use of 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.679 the way back machine, so we can't actually prevent any 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:21.800 historical occurrence from happening. Right. Doc Brown says that we 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.720 could not prevent the crime, so we won't even try. Yeah, so, 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:29.240 uh sorry Annie Chapman, but uh it sounds like here 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:35.360 we go, Chuck. Did you hear that. Yeah, that's the 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.640 end of Annie Chapman. Let's get over there. You want 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.080 to yes, crime scene? Uh number two? Okay, let's run 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.160 over Chuck. Hang back, man, let the cops do their work. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.160 But I just want to show you a couple of things. Why, 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:48.880 by the way, are we at victim number two and 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.960 not victim number one? Well, victim number one was the 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.760 one that kicked all kicked off the canonical murders. But 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.720 Annie Chapman, who whose dead body we're looking at right 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:02.480 now is um she's she her wounds and what happened 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.760 to her is much more characteristic of Jack the Ripper. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:06.560 I just kind of wanted you to get an impression. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.280 I am impressed. Then, Yeah, some bad things happen to 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.240 this poort today. Okay, hang back, Chuck, let's let the 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.840 let's let the cops do their work. They're they're starting you. 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:18.480 I just want to show you a couple of whiles 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.760 to spare with me for a second. Yeah, it's pretty bloody, um, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.960 but there's a there's actually a lot of detail, Um 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.639 that these investigators are eventually going to pick up one 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.079 which will be in an m O. Should you suggest 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:35.560 something at this point or do you just want to 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.040 hang back? I think we should hang back. But um 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.080 noticed that, um this is any Chapman. She was a 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.960 casual prostitute. Yea. Um, now what does that mean? It 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.720 means that she she made ends meet by engaging in prostitution. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.959 So I'm sorry, by the way, miss Chapman's a bad 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.200 standing here like this, but yeah, it's true though. UM 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.680 So if you'll notice, Chuck, she's on her back and 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.760 her um her she she's been bled out of her 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.120 throat unfortunately. Yeah. But one thing I want you to notice, 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.600 and this is going to become a uh I guess 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.799 characteristic of the Ripper murder. Sure calling card if you will. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.799 Sure her legs. Do you see how they're been at 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.440 the knee. They're arched up and then they're laying off 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:17.919 to the side. Yea, it looks like some sort of 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.160 childbirth thing. Actually have a theory about that, we'll get 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.000 too later. Theory. Okay, yes, all right, Well that's pretty 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.400 much all I wanted you to see. These guys are um, 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.920 we're we're witnessing an exercise and futility. These guys are 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.280 never going to figure out who did this. But yeah, 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.440 it looks like she's been cut up pretty good. Yeah, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.600 so you want to get out here? You Okay, I'm 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.560 feeling queasy. All right, Well, let's get out of here. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.920 They could just be the mead, all right, let's get 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:48.560 to the way back machine. Chuck. Okay. So Chuck, how 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.760 how do you feel? Uh? Nauseous, a bit hungover? You 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:56.400 look sober as day. Yeah, yeah, that's frightening. Yeah. So, Chuck, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.720 that was Annie Chapman. Yeah, it was um. And she 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.760 is the second of what they call the canonical murders 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.400 or the Ripper murders, right, yeah, the White Chapel murders. Right. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:12.160 So in the fall of from August thirty one to 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:18.040 November nine, there were five murders um that are among 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.960 the grizzlier murders ever committed in Great Britain, possibly anywhere. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.800 And there were other murders, but these are attributed to 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:30.320 one Jack the Ripper. Yes, that's right, Chuck. Um, these five, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.480 as we said, the canonical murders, uh, at the time 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:39.960 and throughout history since then, these five are definitely attributed 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:44.040 using m O and UM, comparing the bodies, that kind 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.960 of stuff, which we'll get into later. It's possible that 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.240 there are other murders UM. In particular, there was one 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:57.960 woman who was murdered on August seven, remember the first one, UM, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.760 Maryanne Paulie Nichols was murdered on August thirty one, So 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.560 it's possibly yet another first victim named Martha Tabrum, who 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:11.360 was a murdered prostitute. Uh, and he may have um 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.640 started practicing on her. Hers was a little less precise 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.600 than you'll remember Annie Chapman's was, right, Yeah, I think 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.440 so so she she The reason people think that she 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.560 might be an extra ripper murder um is that her 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.040 legs were spread, if you'll notice that, like you said, 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.440 in the childbirth position. Uh, most of the women, if 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.600 not all, of the canonical murders were found like that 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.360 a theory and that we'll get to that though. All right, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:45.720 So chuck um London, let's talk about the backdrop. Yeah, 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.039 London's East End at the time very poor, extremely poor, 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.880 and um the pubs were open all night and uh, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.560 a lot of alcoholism, a lot of disease, a lot 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.840 of opium. As you know, it's not a very pleasant 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.680 place to be. No, it's not um, but there are 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.960 families trying to make it here. Again, it's it's mainly 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.839 just poverty. Yeah, a lot of like you said, casual prostitution. 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.520 There was a lot of that going on, just to 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.559 make ends me absolutely. One of the things that makes 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.640 the Ripper murders stand out so much is that this 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.680 this they weren't the only people that we murdered. There 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:21.640 was some really brutal crimes committed around that same time. Yeah. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.679 Not a great place to be, no, but it really 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.000 says something about the Jack the Ripper murders and the 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:32.200 grip that it had on the people um in London's 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.440 East End Um that they stood out against this backdrop, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:40.320 this horrible, bleak, violent backdrop, and in a way actually 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.120 people have later on talked about how it sort of 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.360 exposed this dirty secret of the poverty in London and 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.160 kind of brought it to light more so than anyone 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:51.960 else could at the time. Yeah, I think the murder 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.320 I think George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, said that Jack 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.880 the Ripper Um succeeded where social reformers had failed by 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.920 shining a spotlight on the living conditions in London's Easton. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.120 That's one way to do it. Yeah, and he had 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.120 a whole lot of other impacts. He was a lot 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.120 of firsts in a lot of ways. We'll talk about 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.680 that a little bit. Well, let's go over the victims, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.120 the canonical victims. Chuck, Okay, how much detail you want 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.760 to go into here, because it is grizzly, as much 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.360 as you'd like, but as much as you can stomach. Well, 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.760 the first, like you said, was Maryanne Polly Nichols, and 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.480 she's forty four. She was an alcoholic, like most of 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.840 her cohort victims. Yeah, that was definitely a m The 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.320 the common thread for all the women is that they 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.640 were either drunk at the time or were known to 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.400 love the liquor. Right, And the other through line there 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.800 is that they were all known to be prostitutes, at 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.720 least casually here and there, And a lot of people 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.160 suspect that Jack, you know, he some people thought he 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.160 may have like hated prostitutes, but it was probably just 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.720 an easy mark. A drunk hooker sure would be an 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.720 easy person to kill at five thirty in the morning 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.720 in London. Definitely it's actually a drunk hooker in need 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.200 of money and need exactly. Yeah. So, uh so Polly 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.600 was the first one. She was killed at about or 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:13.600 she was found at three in the morning. Yeah, severe 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:18.160 lacerations in her throat and further incisions and uh to 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.559 her neck and violent lacerations to her abdomen, which makes 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.000 her um a lot like Martha Tabroum. She was stabbed 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.800 I think thirty nine times to her abdomen. Yeah, they're 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.400 all slightly different, I noticed. But if you look at it, 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.559 especially if you start with Martha tab Roam and go 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.000 all the way up to his last known victim, Mary 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.520 Jane Kelly, it's almost like a pro You can see 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.320 the progression. First it's all just rage, and then it 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.679 becomes much more methodical after he gets more uncomfortable with 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.959 what he's doing. True, So we talked about Annie as well. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.760 We witnessed Annie. Yeah. Uh. Then I think next was 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.559 Elizabeth Stride, Lizzie Stride. She's forty five and um, she 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.000 was drunk at the time. She also engaged in casual 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:05.760 prostitution and UM, but she was seeing alive um refusing 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.800 a proposition right, and she also was seen speaking with 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.920 a man and holding a parcel with in like a 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.760 newspaper parcel. Yeah, this man pops up several times actually 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.520 in the canonical murders. Yeah, the shabby genteel that was 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:24.480 actually yes, um So, she's last seen at twelve thirty 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:30.200 five am on Sunday, September, and five minutes later she's 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.560 found in UH, a dark alley off Burner Street called 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:38.040 Dutfields Yard. Her legs are very familiarly by now pulled 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.720 up to her toward her body, knees in the air spread, 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.520 and she has a krichief tied around her neck. Yes, 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:49.320 but she interestingly was not mutilated, which suggests to historians 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.760 that he may have been interrupted before he could complete 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.240 his whole thing right, And they definitely think he was 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.640 interrupted because about an hour or so later, another ripper 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:04.480 victim turns up, Katherine ETOs. She was forty six and 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.680 she was a heavy drinker as well, but she was 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.160 intelligent and educated. And actually I just read a thing 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.360 last week where they just discovered, Yeah, the census records, 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.840 I believe, just like a week ago, revealed some of 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.000 these UH people for the first time in their backgrounds 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.120 weren't as grizzly as you might have thought a lot 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.400 of them were smart and had families and right, but like, um, 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.760 uh what was her name, Annie Chapman's daughter dying broke 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.760 up the family they had. Yeah, they had. When you 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.160 talk about him, you think, oh, engaging casual prostitution, and 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.599 we're drunks. They were obviously idiots, you know. But no, 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:43.320 these these people had actual, real lives, um, and real 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.800 things happened to them that led them to these these 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.920 points where they were murdered by the ripper. Um. And 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.360 also that that's a really good point, Chuck, because it's 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.880 really hard for us to put ourselves into that situation 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.200 of what it was like at the time. Um. But 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:04.440 these were real people dying in really brutal ways, and 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.720 at the time it was it had a real impact 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.360 on the collective psyche of the people who lived in London. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:15.679 You know, we're talking um paranoia, mobs forming. Yeah, let 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.479 me tell you a little story about a guy named Squibby. Okay, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.880 there's a man named Squibby. He used to have run 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.400 ins with the police. He was tattooed from head to 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:28.480 toe is how they described it. And Squibby, Um, you 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:35.120 want to go see him, Chuck, Yeah, let's go see Squibby. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.160 See him. Yeah, he's a weird looking little guy in it. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.160 Do not make eye contact with Squibby, Chuck, you will 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:42.760 punch you in the face just as soon as look 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:47.080 at you. Okay, Well, Squibby is tattooed from head to toe. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.160 He's a short little guy, but real stocking and strong, 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.920 kind of like Glenn Danzing Uh and he um he 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.680 has run ins with the police routinely. There are a 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.040 couple of detectives who were down um in uh White 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.120 Chapel around the time of the Ripper murders. By this 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.280 time that the public had been whipped up into a 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:11.120 frenzy and um, they knew Squibby by site. Obviously he's 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.240 pretty notable guy. Uh. And they had a couple of 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.680 truncheons each, each one at a trunch and they started 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:22.160 chasing Squibby. Uh. And this crowd apparently who had gathered 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.720 outside of a think Um Catherine at Oos murder Um 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.840 saw the police chasing Squibby and just immediately assumed that 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.960 it was Jack the rippers. So this huge mob formed, right, 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.240 and they're running through the streets after Squibby and and 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.319 the police actually they were chasing him because they figured 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.840 it was the Ripper and they were going to kill him. Finally, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.640 they get Squibby to the police station, and the mob 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.520 just throngs the station and stays for like several hours 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.959 until they finally realized it wasn't Jack the Ripper. It's 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.959 just some guy that's good stuff. Yeah it was. Yeah, 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.120 So Chuck, while we're here, Um, do you want to 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.640 just fast forward a few Yeah, mine, since we have 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.520 the way back, when can you do this one more time? 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.600 I will be there blindfolded and you can just describe 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.480 it to me. All right. Well, Chuck, listen, we're going 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.960 to go into a place called Miller Court. It's an 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:15.600 apartment house. Uh. It's about um ten forty five in 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.760 the morning, and a rent collector has just found the 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.720 body of Mary Jane Kelly. Yeah, because he ran screaming 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.040 from the apartment like we should be doing right now. Well, 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.480 let's just just steal yourself, Chuck the courage many. Um, 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.560 We're we're gonna wait for the cops to show up, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:36.120 because um, well this is hands down the worst, uh 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.720 the worst mutilation of any of his victims. Yeah, because 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.520 she's clearly inside here, the only one that's inside. So 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.720 I guess he had a little more time to get busy. 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.400 Huh right, yeah, uh, And I didn't bring you back 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.280 here just to make you vomit, Chuck, Okay, this is uh, 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.120 this is this crime scene and of itself is very 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.199 important as far as Jack the Ripper goes, and as 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.520 far as the murders go. Right, how so, Well, for one, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.200 there's evidence that an ax was used on this poor lady, Yeah, 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.160 which is unusual for Jack the Ripper, But he also 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.079 did a lot of He used a lot of surgical 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:14.240 precision and removed organs and in chunks of flesh and 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.960 all sorts of disgusting things. Is you you okay? Yeah, 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.320 it looks like her face almost has been removed. Here 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.600 all right over here, buddy, the cops are coming. Okay, okay, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:29.280 well watch watch right? Did someone just take a photograph? Good? I, Chuck, 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.960 That's exactly why I wanted you to see this up. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.080 That is arguably the first crime scene photograph ever taken 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.400 in the history of human kind. Yeah, and it's pretty 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.800 it turned out pretty grainy. But if you ever see 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.720 it and you're aware of what happened to Mary Jane Kelly, 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.120 it's a pretty disturbing photograph. Like if you're just looking 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.480 at it, it's the you see what the guys working with. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.640 It's not like the most high tech camera around. Sure, 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.440 there's a sketch artist over there too, there's gotta be 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.480 a lot of fun. But what we're witnessing right here 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.520 is the culmination of, uh, this string of murders. This 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.600 is the last canonical murder as far as anybody knows, 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.680 that is definitively attributed to Jack the Ripper. Well in 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.640 most people's minds. So you want to you want to 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.880 take off pale, you look a little green. Well, I 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:15.920 just feel like we should say before we go, if 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.280 I'm not mistaken, I see body parts under her head 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.280 and on the side table, Yes you do. Why did 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.320 he do that? Uh? He was a sick Oh he 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.880 was Jack the Ripper. Yeah there there you go, right there. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.720 So let's get out of here, buddy. Then what the 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.320 cop just kind of looked over at us. Yeah, seriously, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:40.840 let's go, So, Chuck, we now have the canonical victims. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.800 We've seen two of them. We've talked about the rest 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.440 of them. There were some other ones that's that are possible. Um, 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:51.640 there's the Whitehall mystery victim, headless, limbless torso that was 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.280 found actually in the basement of Scotland Yard as it 0:15:55.320 --> 0:16:00.720 was under construction, um on October two, which is actually 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.600 within the timeframe of the Remember murders. But um, they 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.680 never said that this one is remember And there was 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.000 a one body found in New York actually that people 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.600 think that Jack the reper might have fled England, which 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.280 is why the murders stopped in London and then uh 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.440 did a little handiwork there in New York City. It's possible, 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:20.840 and there's actually a suspect who who was there at 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.480 the time of the murder of Carrie Brown a k a. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.360 Old Shakespeare as she was named because she used to 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:30.160 love to get drunk and quote Shakespeare sonnets. That's nice 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:35.120 until she died, right, Um, So there are actually plenty 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.480 of other ones that are were never definitively attributed to them. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.240 But so let's just stick with the five possibly six 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.880 canonical murders we talked about that, right, So chuck another 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.920 we have the five bodies. Um, we can put together 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.320 what's known as a modus operandi A K A and 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.640 m O and a k A. By the way, it's 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.240 for also known as his m O Josh. He struck 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:03.040 in the early hours. He struck on weekends, which Chuck wise, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:07.240 is significant well because it would lead the detectives to 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.240 believe that he probably had a was a regular guy 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.080 and had a regular workday job, and was probably single 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.080 because because he wouldn't have aroused suspicion from the wife 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.080 by leaving it, you know, all hours of the evening 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.760 and Chuck, that's that. That also kind of sounds like, well, 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.280 maybe his wife is loyal. No. People were neighbors were 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.760 turning in neighbors for suspicious activities, saying my neighbor's jack 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.840 ripper um. People were going absolutely not so they think 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.479 that he was single or else somebody would have come 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.320 for and been like, my husband's been going out and 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.480 coming back with blood on his clothes on the night 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.399 of the Ripper murders. I have a theory that he 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:47.080 was previously married and his wife couldn't give him a child. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.800 That's what I think. That's where the childbirth positions came up. Chuck, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.360 my friends has just turned into a budding ripparologist. I'm 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.399 proud of you. Thank you. Other clues Josh, he h 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.600 strangle all but one of his victims initially that was 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.560 the method of death. UM. And then he would um 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:08.800 put the throat. He would cut their throat and remember 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.359 he cut from left to right because he was like 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.919 right handed, and he would he would kneel on the 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.280 victim's right side and cut so that the blood spurted 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.040 away from him and largely drained out of the carotid artery. Yeah, 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.239 my ideas, he probably led them out so when he 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.080 was doing all his handiwork, he wouldn't get sprayed and 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.800 there wouldn't just be blood everywhere. So right now, that 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:33.840 that suggests number one, a working knowledge of anatomy. Um 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:38.960 number two, somebody who is clever and doesn't want to 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.880 get caught. That's a huge one. UM. Back in White Chapel, 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.879 uh And during this time the police were working on 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:53.119 the theory that he was clearly a raving madman. And 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.040 it was actually a really bad time to be insane 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.760 in White Chapel because a number of people were just committed. 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.680 They be picked up during police drag nets and taking 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.760 do insane asylums for the rest of their lives. UM. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.719 The police spent a lot of time in Whitechapel, chasing 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:15.679 squibby um corralling the insane and interviewing suspects, and modern 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:20.440 forensic investigators today believe that Scotland Yard or the Metropolitan 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:26.239 Police probably interviewed the Ripper at some point but let 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:30.320 them go because they were looking for somebody crazy and 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.760 they don't think that Jack the Ripper was. They called 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:37.439 them frightening lee normal today. Yeah exactly, so Chuck, what 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.560 are some other clues? Well they into and oh six 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:44.040 they Scotland Yard actually put together a physical description that's 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.479 two thousand six, just a few years ago. Uh they 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.840 reckoned he was between twenty five and thirty five, medium height, 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.960 stocky and a resident of Whitechapel and like you said, 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.439 very much normal. And uh in the FB I actually 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:02.560 did a psychological profile. This is the case that just 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:07.040 won't die. Oh no, I mean ripparologists. It's I literally 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:09.600 looked the other day and there were four or five 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.920 new possible suspects within the past like year that people 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.880 are still naming. Who will get to in a minute, 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.840 Yes we will. And um, let's talk about the FBI profile. 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.280 Special Agent John Douglas is who did this. He said 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.960 he was opportunistic like you. Yeah, like you said, I 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:32.040 just say that I'm an opportunistic killer, right, Like, like 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.280 I said, with the drunk prostitutes being a pretty easy mark, right, 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:39.359 they also think that Well. Douglas also suggests that, um, 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.080 he was a lust killer, which is not to be 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.159 confused with any level of sexuality. Yeah, he did not 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:47.560 have sex with any of these women. No, but some 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.320 people do think it's possible that Jack the Ripper was 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.000 a cannibal, and possibly that some of the stuff he 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.760 took along with, um, all right, weren't just trophies but 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:59.600 were food as well. Oh wow, Actually there's a letter 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.760 called from the from Hell letter, the controversial from Hell letter. 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.960 Oh yeah, there are a lot of letters. Um, there 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.080 were a couple of hundred, from what I understand, sent 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.280 to the cops, sent to the press. All the way 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.880 up until the nineteen sixties, they were still getting letters 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.800 from the right, right. Um. A couple of women were 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.919 actually prosecuted for fraud for writing um, fake Jack the 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.120 Ripper letters. Um, there was there was one letter out 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.600 of these many hundreds that a lot of ripporologists today 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.760 believe actually was written by Jack the Ripper. It's called 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:38.560 the Dear Boss letter, dear boss, I'll keep on hearing 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.199 the police have caught me, but they won't fix me 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.639 just yet. I have laughed when they look so clever 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.920 and talk about being on the right track. I joke 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:52.160 about leather apron gave me real fits. I am down 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.680 on horse and all shot. Quit ripping them till I 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.720 do get buckled. Grand work. That last job was I'll 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.560 get the lady no time to score wheel? How can 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.719 they catch me now? I love my work and I 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:07.320 want to start again. You will seem hear of me 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.679 in my funny little games. I'll save some of the 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:13.119 proper red stuff and a ginger beer bottle over the 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.160 last job to write with, but it went picklock blue 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.760 and I can't use it. Red ink is fit enough. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:23.119 I hope the next job I do, I shall clip 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:26.080 the ladies ears off and send to the police officers 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:30.760 just for jolly. Wouldn't you keep this letter back until 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:32.920 I do a bit more work and give it out straight. 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:35.680 My knife is so nice and sharp. I want to 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:37.600 get to work right away if I get a chance. 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:43.359 Good luck yours, truly, Jack the ripper, don't mind me 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:47.320 giving the trade name PS wasn't good enough to post 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:49.720 this before I got all the red ink off my hands. 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:54.280 Curse it. No luck as yet they say, I'm a 0:22:54.320 --> 0:23:01.080 doctor now and chuck. One of the reasons why this 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:03.840 letter is so significant. Number one, it's the letter that 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:07.280