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His name is a metaphor for terror, violence, brutality.

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His onslaught against the dying trodden of London has rarely been equal for savagery.

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He was Jack the Ripper, and some say he came from hell.

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Beyond what is known lies an unexplored world of shadows and phantoms.

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A land that knows no limits of time or space.

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A dawn of discovery to the nightfall of catastrophe.

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A journey to a universe of the unexplored, the unforeseen, the unbelievable.

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A place where myth and legend are law, no superstition assigns.

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A place beyond reality, where no question will go unanswered.

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It's time for our journey to begin.

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The crimes are notorious, the criminal unknown.

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A story takes place in two worlds, one of light, one of darkness.

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The residents of London were recently brought to an intense state of alarm and terror

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by the most lurid crimes that human imagination could conceive and human fiend could perpetrate.

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Last night, September the 8th, police discovered the brutally cut body of Annie Chapman,

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believed to be the second victim of the Whitechapel murderer.

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She was found in Hanbury Street, and she had been most terribly mutilated.

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It is rumoured that both victims were prostitutes, and police speculate that this might be a motive for these terrible killings.

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And tonight in Whitechapel, fear walks the streets.

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Frightened, of course, are frightened. I hope they hang that bloody bust.

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Devil, seems like the streets ain't safe for nobody these days.

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These two of us, these already cut to shreds, and the pillars, they just sit on their hands.

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And I'll tell you something else, you can bit your boot and if it was that minute,

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I'm toffing those tarts up wet. They'd have had him dangling from the road before you could say nice.

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They'll have a good time to be crying.

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But the worst was to lie ahead.

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In the early morning of September 30th, two murders occurred within minutes of one another.

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As long Liz Stride and Catherine Eddowes came face to face with, who? No one you.

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And that mystery was the only one that was left to be found.

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As long Liz Stride and Catherine Eddowes came face to face with, who? No one you.

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And that mystery has baffled criminologists ever since.

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One of the only pieces of evidence was this chalked message,

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filed immediately after the double killings, above a blood-soaked fragment from poor Catherine Eddowes' clothes.

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This vital clue was destroyed by the express orders of the chief of police, Sir Charles Warren.

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Warren came to that Jewish referred to Jews,

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claiming that he destroyed the evidence to prevent persecution of the local Jewish population.

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Why Warren refused to even allow a photographer to take a picture before rubbing out this message?

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No one knows. And it was even more bizarre evidence.

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Immediately after these murders, a community official received a grisly piece of correspondence,

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a letter that claimed credit for the murders.

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Also enclosed was a piece of human kidney. This letter was sent from hell.

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It was a puzzling two-month interruption in the Ripper's ghastly work.

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But on November the 9th, he struck again.

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Unlike the other murders, Mayor Kelly was killed in her room.

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After that, nothing. The murders ended as abruptly as they began.

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Who was Jack the Ripper?

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There's a new theory that points in an unexpected direction

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and suggests that Jack the Ripper may not have been a lone deranged killer.

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In fact, it claims there may have been a method to the Ripper's madness.

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I don't have to answer those questions, but I certainly have nothing to hide.

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You say Jack the Ripper was a whole crowd of killers, and I was among them.

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My apologies. It's such an absurd notion.

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One of the most controversial theories about Jack the Ripper was presented in a book called

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Jack the Ripper, The Final Solution.

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Book's author was Stephen King, who was the author of the book,

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and Book's author was Stephen Knight, a BBC researcher acting on a tip from Scotland Yard.

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His tonight has since died, but one of his fellow researchers is familiar with his rather fantastic theory.

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I think that Jack the Ripper was more than one man. I think he was John Nettley, a coachman.

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I think he was William Withey Gull, a physician, and possibly one other person.

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The theory is that that other person could be Walter Zippert.

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There were five women prostitutes who lived in very squalid circumstances in the East End,

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and they were murdered either to silence them or to stop them blackmailing.

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The reason they were blackmailing is that the last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, had been a witness to a wedding,

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and the wedding itself would have been utterly disapproved of by Queen Victoria the Vainy Monarch,

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simply because the royal person who was married, or allegedly married at that time,

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was himself to be the following king, the king following Edward VII.

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His name was Albert, the Duke of Clarence, and his name was Eddie.

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To say he married beneath him would be understating it.

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He married, apparently, a woman of a very poor Catholic background.

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Had the marriage had been recognised, had the child been recognised, the child would have been brought up in a Catholic faith.

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The throne of England would have had to have gone to a Catholic monarch

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and would have upset the establishment of Britain and possibly led to revolution.

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I don't think Jack the Ripper is just one person.

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According to the Steam Knight theory, Jack the Ripper was three men working together.

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They travelled in a coach driven by a John Neckley.

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The murders were committed by the physician Gull, and it was Walter Sickert who enticed the victims to their doom.

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Was I involved in the killings? Of course not.

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When Natalie and Gull, how can I speak for them?

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Although perhaps that writing on the wall says more than it appears.

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What does the word jouet mean?

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Well, according to the Knight theory, an explanation may be found in Masonic law.

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Thousands of years ago certain betrayers within the Masons were executed.

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Their throats cut from left to right, exactly the way the river victims were found millennia later.

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The three betrayers were called jouets.

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And according to Knight, two prominent Masons were Sir William Gull and Sir Charles Warren.

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Were the killings motivated by betrayal? Did the victims know each other?

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So, do I look like someone who believes extortion should be answered with murder?

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Those poor wingmen.

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Who can say they even knew one another much less conspired together?

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But the river victims have known one another?

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Annie Chapman and Liz Stride lived in the same building.

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Mary Nichols and Mary Kelly close nearby.

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Catherine Eddow's minutes away. They could easily have known one another.

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The blackmailers were Mary Kelly, Annie Chapman, Lonnie Stride, Mary Nichols,

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River victims one, two, three and five. Catherine Eddow's was number four.

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Where does she fit in? Dear, dear, there seems to be a hole in this marvelous plot.

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Where does Catherine Eddow's fit in?

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Summer water of McGrath.

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You all can use my name, don't you?

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My name's Kath. Kath Eddow's.

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But I'll go by the name of Kelly now, since I live with my John.

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He's a lovely bloke. A regular gentleman he is.

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That's to the time.

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Perhaps Catherine Eddow's was mistaken for Mary Kelly, and when the mistake was realized,

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the killer, or killers, returned one last time. The loose ends had been tidied up.

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There are many loose ends in Stephen Knight's theory as well.

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There are those who say it is too tidy that they have evidence that points to another man called Jack the Ripper.

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Jack the Ripper, however he was, has most certainly passed on to that special place reserved for murderers.

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London he knew has changed, but fascination with his bloody deeds has remained constant.

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Today in London Jack the Ripper has become a major tourist attraction.

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Catherine Eddow's was found here in the early morning of the 30th of September 1888.

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She was found just over here on the right-hand side, and she had the same fatal wounds as all the other victims.

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We know from the post-mortem that most definitely Jack the Ripper would have come up from behind,

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and with his right hand he would have placed it over the victim's mouth, and with the left hand cut their throat from right to left, from ear to ear, twice.

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Now these were very deep, and without doubt they caused the victim's death.

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He would then cut them from the throat down to the lower abdomen and disembowel them, but with Catherine Eddow's he didn't stop there.

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I want to go back and be able to tell everybody what I saw and what I heard, and give them a little more information about Jack the Ripper.

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It is fascinating.

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So repulsive and gory, it's really, it's very interesting.

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I think Jack the Ripper is probably the most fascinating historical murderer that we have,

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and because no one's ever been caught, that's even more fascinating.

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I think Jack the Ripper, everybody, no matter what age, knows about him or her.

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Jack the Ripper, I believe, touches a nerve.

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A nerve that we can all recognize.

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If anyone of us ever, at any occasion, said, I would like to kill him or her or them,

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then I think we can recognize who Jack the Ripper really was, and is.

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He's all of us.

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We forget the sordid brutality of the killing, and Jack the Ripper is now becoming like Dracula.

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He's becoming sort of like Robin Hood.

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He's now more fiction than fact, and he's moving more and more away from the reality.

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My purpose was to sort of push us back to the reality, because there is still time to get evidence.

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We're still near enough to be able to perhaps find things which may be lost in just a few years.

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Donald Romblow has had 20 years experience on the London Police Force.

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He's used his background to study the murders, and he discusses the conspiracy theory of Stephen Knight.

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Stephen's theory is a very interesting one, but it is nonsense.

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When you look at his book, you find it's sort of very skillfully put together.

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It's very convincing, but you will find, for instance, when you dissect it, that chapter one,

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he begins by saying, let us suppose that, and on that supposition, he builds a fact.

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So at the end of the book, you have got a very convincing portrayal, and a very convincing argument

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of the great Freemason conspiracy, of the marriage of the Duke of Clarence,

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of the involvement of Sir William Gull and of the painter Walter Sickert.

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But it is nonsense. The whole thing is nonsense.

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Perhaps he should be left to Joseph Sickert himself, who collaborated with Knight on the story initial.

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After Knight's book was published, Sickert denied, two years later, Sickert denied the whole story

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and said that he had made it up. It's nonsense. And it is a piece of fiction, and that's how, quite frankly,

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the Clarence theory should be treated as a piece of fiction.

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Donald Romblow believes a more persuasive case can be built against this man, Montague Druitts,

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a member of the upper classes who coincidentally committed suicide a few weeks after the last murder.

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That's nobody can save for sir.

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Well, it seems that now we are back at the beginning.

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Still, there are facts that can guide us towards uncovering this murderer.

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We must just think carefully about what we've already heard and draw our own conclusions.

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What do we know about Jack the Ripper?

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That he seemed to hate prostitutes with an insanely violent passion.

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That he took an obscene pride in his work.

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It is his identity that remains unknown, confounding even the cleverest theorists.

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He came out of the darkness a hundred years ago.

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He killed in darkness, and he vanished in darkness.

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A figure of shadow, a figure of mystery.

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He slashed not only the throats of his victims, but the veil of hypocrisy that surrounded the middle and upper classes of his day.

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Not only in England, but all over the world.

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With that knife, he penetrated the deepest secrets of our own being.

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And we recall him as Jack the Ripper.

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Time is not answered, several key questions.

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Why did the Ripper only kill prostitutes?

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And who wrote the Jewel message?

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And what does it mean?

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And why did the killing stop after Mary Kelly?

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Then there is the confession that Walter Sikert allegedly made to his son.

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But those words ever uttered.

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Like all of London, I was quite relieved when the murders ceased.

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When I no longer had to hear those cries for help, those cries for our witnesses to step forward.

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If I knew anything, and I kept silent, then I would be well and truly damned.

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Walter Sikert went to his grave in 1942.

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We took with him any secrets he possessed, if indeed he possessed any.

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And Jack the Ripper's identity still remains a mystery.

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No matter who or what Jack the Ripper was, he stands as an object to listen.

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For when people put aside their humanity for whatever reason, they become monsters.

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And no theorist has ever argued that Jack the Ripper was anything but that, a monster in human form.

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Jack the Ripper, evil with a human face.

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