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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.the name that johntheplamf is looking for is Dr Francis tumbletee,
(there are various spellings of the name)He was a quack doctor who made his fortune selling snake oil and liked to visit the u.k. to find wombs to add to his collection(yes wombs)....anyway why hasn't any one mentioned the masons yet????
The posters who say we may never know are right and of course if we did the subject would not sustain the continued interest. Patricia Cornwell makes the mistake many people have by deciding who was guilty and then choosing the evidence that fits whilst ignoring the evidence that calls her theory into question. Worse still she brings her own emotional dislike of the suspect into her investigation.
Read phillip sugdens excellent book the complete history of jack the ripper, it dysects all the cookie conspiracy nonsense, and concentrates on all the evidence and events as they happened at first hand.....he lists the chief suspects.. of these i think severin klosowski who changed his name to george chapman is the most interesting, he was a polish immigrant who lived in whitechapel at the time of the murders, and had a history of hatred and violence towards women including knive attacks.various other evidence suggest he was a sadist.
he eventually went to the gallows in 1903 for poisoning his wife. the copper in charge of the investigation frederick abberline believed him to be the most likely suspect, in the early 1890s chapman emigrated briefly to america, and shortly after he landed there a similar series of murders began to be perpetrated there, plus he studied medicine and surgery in russia before he came to england.