Jack The Ripper
Cake or Death?
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There's a theroy that Jack the Ripper was really a woman. A woman who had some serious revenge issues after a scandel that cost her the career of being a midwife. I forget the details.. they can be found on most sites about J.T.R. theories, though. Anywho... in a way it makes sense because a woman seen walking around late at night, covered in blood was not so out of the ordinary at the time midwives were used.
Set a fire, go to jail!
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From the Casebook site:
I read the Patricia Cornwell's book some time ago, and it seemed to be well written (I have not read the criticisms) with a HUGE bibliography of sources. Cornwell, arguably, has made a good case for Sickert to be the killer, including the use of mitochondrial DNA. I can't remember all of the reasoning as to "why" he killed, but I do recall that there were many issues...including impotence from a physical deformity.
Walter Sickert had been tangentially implicated in the Ripper crimes as early as the 1970s, with the release of the now infamous "Royal Conspiracy" theory. But it wasn't until the early 1990s, with the release of Jean Overton Fuller's Sickert and the Ripper Crimes, that the peculiar artist became a Ripper suspect in his own right. More recently, Patricia Cornwell has claimed to have found DNA evidence linking Sickert to at least one "Ripper letter".
We are still putting together a proper suspect page for Walter Sickert, but in the meantime you may be interested in reading Wolf Vanderlinden's excellent, in-depth essay on Sickert's candidature as Jack the Ripper, entitled The Art of Murder.
Those interested particularly in Patricia Cornwell's claims in Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed may be interested in reading Patricia Cornwell and Walter Sickert - a Primer. This primer examines in-depth several concepts used by Ms. Cornwell to establish Sickert's guilt, suggesting that her case against the famed artist may not be as iron-clad as she'd like her readers to believe. (Warning, this article contains several spoilers).
We are still putting together a proper suspect page for Walter Sickert, but in the meantime you may be interested in reading Wolf Vanderlinden's excellent, in-depth essay on Sickert's candidature as Jack the Ripper, entitled The Art of Murder.
Those interested particularly in Patricia Cornwell's claims in Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed may be interested in reading Patricia Cornwell and Walter Sickert - a Primer. This primer examines in-depth several concepts used by Ms. Cornwell to establish Sickert's guilt, suggesting that her case against the famed artist may not be as iron-clad as she'd like her readers to believe. (Warning, this article contains several spoilers).
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From: Virginia (Besieged)
Originally Posted by lil_1_2002
so the masons dont have power? any one got more info in the freemasons?
Freemasonry is undeniably connected with the monarchy, as the King-Emperors George V and George VI were masons and at the head of the movement, as the current sovereign Elizabeth II is also the head of freemasonry in the Commonwealth.
I think that many people misunderstand what the monarchy and what freemasonry are about, and to some people, something that is not understood or something they're not a part of is inherently evil.
However, throughout history, in my opinion, freemasonry has built society, and never served it badly. The picture that movies like From Hell paint of freemasonry is simply uneducated and an evil propitiation of propaganda.
Likewise, the picture that uneducated and misanthropic people paint of the monarchy is evil.
The first couple of times that Labour governments were returned in the House of Commons, the House of Lords, dominated by conservatives, would defeat the government's budget bills, threatening to overthrow the democratically elected governments.
Both Edward VII and George V threated the House of Lords with a dillution of their number, saying they would appoint enough Liberal and Labour Lords to make it impossible for the House of Lords to ever again thwart the will of the people.
This is hardly the work of a dark force, but rather one of enlightenment and prudent guidance.