"Ripper Notes: The Hunt for Jack the Ripper" is a collection of essays about that famous unidentified serial killer and related topics. Tom Wescott's "Jack and the Grapestalk" starts things out by examining claims that victim Elizabeth Stride was holding grapes when her body was found. He compares conflicting witness statements and the testimony of doctors who examined the corpse to come to a conclusion about how the story got started. The article also reveals research into the two private detectives hired by the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee and who, it turns out, were very suspicious characters. Next Wolf Vanderlinden argues that prostitute Martha Tabram, killed less than a month before the woman generally considered the first victim of Jack the Ripper, should also be considered part of that killer's bodycount. To support this stance Vanderlinden refers to the opinions of the police officials at the time, examines witness reports and cites the research of criminal profiling experts Kim Rossmo, David Canter and Robert Keppel. Then Jennifer Pegg and updates readers on the continuing saga of altered documents, inaccurate statements and other troubling problems with the book "Uncle Jack" by Tony Williams and Humphrey Price. Other topics include little-known Ripper suspect Alois Szemeredy, the copycat murder of Jane Beadmore, the medical problems of victim Catherine Eddowes, and previously unrevealed details of court cases against suspect Dr. Francis Tumblety. Each essay is accompanied by numerous period illustrations, and the back cover features a colorful montage of images related to the Stride murder. Ripper Notes is a nonfiction anthology series covering all aspects of the Jack the Ripper case.
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By Hedley Lamarr (kentucky, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ripper Notes: The Hunt for Jack the Ripper (Paperback)
The prior six issues of Ripper Notes, I recommend. The last issue I gave five stars. There are usually half a dozen really good articles. This issue.... none. I believe it was thrown together.
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This review is from: Ripper Notes: The Hunt for Jack the Ripper (Paperback)
This is for Issue #25, January 2006 of the Jack the Ripper essay magazine. I've more-or-less enjoyed the previous three installments and this was alright. There's an awful lot of filler stuff here that isn't all that gripping. This issue we get:
1) Long article on the myth of whether Packer sold grapes to Liz Stride and possibly her Ripper companion prior to her murder. 2) Another look at Martha Tabram and whether she should be considered a Ripper victim also. Delves into geographic profiling which was nice. 3) A rebuttal of the rebuttal from the authors of "Uncle Jack" regarding its inaccuracies. 4) History of Alois Szemeredy, a small inconsequential Ripper-suspect. Good history but never actually gives reasons as to why or how he could have been JtR. 5) Catherine Eddowes revisited on the topic of Bright's disease. 6) Another flaw arising from Cornwell's book naming Sickert as JtR; regards the purported actual story of the death of Jane Beadmore by William Waddell not Sickert. 7) A pre-Ripper story about NYC-Brooklyn Constable Chambers and his run ins with Frances Tumblety. 8) A sarcastic look at future research into Jack the Ripper; amusing but complete fluff filler.
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