Jack the Reaper Case Study

Introduction

Between August and November 1988 a series of murders were discovered in the Eastern section of London. The identified perpetrator who was nicknamed "Jack the Reaper" killed, mutilated, and humiliated five women. Throughout the murders and the investigations conducted by the law enforcement agency, over a hundred people were named as the suspects since they possessed unique links to the patterns of the murder. Some of the suspects were Joseph Barnet, Lewis Carroll, David Cohen, Fredrick Deeming, Dr. T. Neill Cream, and Walter Sickert. The paper will focus on analyzing the suspects listed above to deduce the identity of "Jack the Reaper."

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Joseph Barnet

Joseph Barnet was born in 1858 and died in 1926. During his life journey, Barnet lived a mile away from White Chapel and was raised by a single parent (his father) and trained them to follow in line with the fishing family business. Joseph got acquainted with Mary Jane Kelly during the time of the murders, and they live together for a year and a half. Moreover, he lived at the Dorset Street in 13 Miller's court where Kelly's remains were located on November 9, 1888. In July 1888 Barnet's license for fishing was revoked, due to theft case but he still managed to visit Kelly and provide financial assistance.

Lewis Carroll

Carroll, on the other hand, was born to a middle-class family, and his father was a Reverend at Daresbury, Cheshire, England. At 23-years old, his brilliance enabled him to win Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship (Rossen, 2018). But he did not love his work due to the boredom and since the students lacked the interest to be taught. Even though his life was a success, theories were deduced about his double personality. According to Rossen (2018), Carroll lived a scandalous life; therefore, in the early 1930s, his biographies established traits that were never known, for example, his subversive pro-drug article of Alice. Moreover, author and analyst Wallace Richard created that Carroll had a second mind; a mind that created his reasoning and persona as a Jack the Ripper.

David Cohen

Cohen David also was known as Nathan Kaminski the 'Leather Apron' was born in 1889 and was a tailor by profession. (Fido, 2000) His ordeal was a revised version of identifying Jack the Reaper through the establishment of his identity as a Jew from Poland who lived in Whitechapel (Fido, 2000). First, he detested women, specifically prostitutes and had massive insights and knowledge about homicides. Moreover, he was discharged from an asylum in 1889; thus, an active element of making him a suspect of the murders (Fido, 2000). Furthermore, he was suspected since he was connected to Kosminski and his violent acts as described by Anderson and Swanson among other analysts concerned with Jack the Ripper case (Fido, 2000).

Fredrick Deeming

Indeed, Deeming was born in 1842, and due to his close relationship with the mother, after her death, he was emotionally unstable and in some occasions fell prey to brain fever that made him commit weird and inhuman acts (Jones, 2017). When asked the reasons for his behavior, he stated that the instructions came from the mother. He was later married with children, but while working in Australia, he was charged for bankruptcy and then jailed for fourteen days (Jones, 2017). Later, while stationed in Liverpool, Deeming killed his entire family, and after getting recognition for his crimes, witnesses came and reported that he was sported in Whitechapel 1888, before his arrest in 1892 (Jones, 2017). The links he had to the murders were his insanity and the approach he sliced the throats of his family.

Dr. T. Neill Cream

Thomas Neill Cream also known as the doctor of death was imprisoned for killing fifteen elderly patients by administered them with lethal doses of morphine (McDowell, 2001). Moreover, since he was a specialist in human anatomy, he became a suspect due to his deceit approach of delivering medicine, terming them as preventive drugs for STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) (McDowell, 2001). Moreover, his method was administering drugs that made his victims experience wracking convulsions. The throats of the victims got swollen as they gasped for air.

Furthermore, the doctor was actively preying on young prostitutes, but only one of them had the opportunity to discover the doctor's involvement in the killings (McDowell, 2001). Even after being found the massacre continued, but after incarceration, the doctor still maintained his claims that he was innocent. Upon his sentencing to death, he confessed that he was Jack, but even the evidence presented about his killings did not align with that of Jack the Reaper (McDowell, 2001).

Walter Sickert

Sickert Walter was born in 1869 in Munich, Germany and relocated with his family to England in 1968 (allthatsinteresting.com, 2018). While in London he became an apprentice and assistant to Whistler who was an established artist. While in apprenticeship Sickert created work that established the non-glamorous and moody art that reflected the evil deeds experienced by the community (allthatsinteresting.com, 2018). Ideally, the Sickert had close attachments and fascinations about the acts of Jack the Ripper, and in the 1990s he painted a picture named 'Jack the Ripper's Bedroom' after the landlady told him about Jack as a previous tenant (allthatsinteresting.com, 2018). For seven years Sickert resided in the same block, and during the same period, the body Dimmock was found mutilated in her bed. Moreover, the painting was termed as murder and Sickert painted drawing on her death; but his physical composition did not establish any speculations that he was the killer since his works were termed as a fantasy (allthatsinteresting.com, 2018).

Conclusion

To conclude the ideal link of Barnett to Jack the Ripper Case establishes the main reason as to why he is the real murderer. First, Barnett was an exact match of F.B.I psychological profile; thus, he was a white male aged 28 to 36, living within the Whitechapel region, lived with the absence of one parent, and Jack the Reaper ceased from killing since he felt the law enforcement agencies were closing on him. By them, Barnett was 30 years of age, lived within the region the murders took place, and he lost the father at a tender age. Next, he had experience in the anatomy of fish since he was a fish-porter. Majorly, Barnett is the ideal suspect since after losing his job, and his companion chose the life of prostitution he had lost everything; thus, making hate prostitutes and also due to hate, he mutilated the bodies of these victims.

References

allthatsinteresting.com. (2018, May 22). How English painter Walter Sickert may have been Jack The Ripper. Retrieved from https://allthatsinteresting.com/walter-sickert

Fido, M. (2000, May 27). David Cohen. Retrieved from https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-cohen.htmlJones, R. (2017, May 8). Deeming Confesses. Retrieved from https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/deeming-confesses/

McDowell, J. (2001, November). Trust me; I'm your doctor. Retrieved from http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/mdd/v04/i11/html/11timeline.html

Rossen, J. (2018, January 3). When Lewis Carroll was suspected of being Jack the Ripper. Retrieved from http://mentalfloss.com/article/519291/when-lewis-carroll-was-suspected-being-jack-ripper