Best selling author Patricia Cornwell has put years of investigations and millions of dollars in her own money to put together a circumstantial case that impressionist Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has compiled her work on handwriting comparisons and drawings in a new book, “Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert,” and now dares doubters to try to tear down her case linking him to the famous murders.
You wanna bet that anybody that owns a Sickert work is sparking up a Cuban and buying triples all around.
I’ve enjoyed P.C.’s mysteries for…well, years, now. But this looks like THE BIG ONE…!!! Plus, she is a babe…! <(")
She had me convinced with her 2002 book – can’t wait to read this one!
@Yakima Al – don’t know which way you swing, but P.C. is gay.
Just ordered it for Kindle today. We’ll see how it comes out.
Read the article, she does make a compelling case, maybe I’ll borrow the book from the library when it’s released there. As skeptical as I usually am about this sort of historical mystery solving things [honestly, all of the evidence is gone, except for circumstantial which makes it very hard to prove], but there does seem to be some large similarities between this guy and the ripper.
Thank goodness that this mystery has finally been solved so that the authorities can make the culprit pay for his crimes!
Disregard wrong alternate ID, above. Need edit.
Jack the Ripper, paying for his crimes since 1942.
According to the recent book “Naming Jack The Ripper” by Russell Edwards, the killer was Aaron Kasminski. The author uses DNA evidence from a shawl that was recovered from the scene of the murder of Catherine Eddowes that has the DNA of the victim and the killer on it. I have been interested in the Ripper murders for years, and read Patricia Cornwell’s first book naming Sickert as the killer with great interest. I’ll read her new book, because I rather like the idea of Jack being an educated, refined, famous artist. Kasminski was one of the original suspects. He was also a raving lunatic who hated women and died in a madhouse. Ripperologists assailed Cornwell’s first book when it was published, and I’m sure her new book will be ripped to pieces by the people who make a living off these grisly murders. If you are ever in London, I highly recommend a London Walks tour of the murder sites in Whitechapel, especially on a foggy night. It’s a ripping yarn brought to life by expert tour guides.
I sat through a lecture not too long ago by a Forensic Expert Lecturer. He claimed with all the evidence he had, that Jack the Ripper was a woman. Boy is he going to be surprised to find out who Jack really was.
Sickert does have some creepy eyes.
There are people who aren’t concerned about the relatively recent Holocaust, where over six million people were murdered, but still obsess over the killing of five prostitutes in England more than a century ago.
I’ll never understand human nature if I live to be a hundred.
Sickert was fingered for the crimes in a book from 20 years ago. The “evidence” was ludicrous.
Those damned German painters…