Jack the Ripper by Terry Lynch

Welcome to the forgotten shelf. This is day 10!
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The Book in short
Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him, and to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma. But he did leave clues to his identity, and numerous theories have been entertained throughout the one hundred and twenty years since he held London s East End in his grip of terror. This book looks at the evidence left by the murderer and the reports and investigative papers which recorded the atrocities that the ripper performed. It takes time to analyse the existing information and evaluate the letters sent to the police. It is the strongest and most powerful book ever written on the murders. It dispels a lot of myths attached to the Ripper, and eliminates a lot of the previously conjectured perpetrators, leaving only those who realistically could have been… Jack the Ripper.
I got this information here.

My Thoughts
As I said in the video, there are so many amazing podcasts. The one I like best was Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World episodes 361 and 362. Especially because in the podcast, Jimmy talks about everything that happened without being very in-depth in exactly how the women were mutaleted.

I had a problem with the book as it did do that, it even had photos and although I understand that in a research sense, I did not enjoy that at all whatsoever.

Even though the case hasn’t been completely solved, the conclusion the book comes to is not quite right, and the podcast I mentioned explains why some people make sense that are usually discredited (as they are in this book). As I said, there are better things out there.

That was the forgotten shelf for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.