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Ripper Notes: The Hunt for Jack the Ripper

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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.

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.