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Diana
Chief Inspector
Username: Diana

Post Number: 881
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 10:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

People are influenced by a lot of things and those things affect their behavior. I'm wondering if there was anything unusual going on in Whitechapel.

We've analyzed the weather on the nights of the crimes, but in a broader sense was the overall weather different that year? Colder? Hotter? Wetter? Dryer?

Was anything unusual going on politically? economically (such as more joblessness than normal)? Disease was a much bigger deal then because there were no antibiotics, so any epidemics?

What have I left out? Are there other areas of environmental influence I haven't thought of?
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c.d.
Detective Sergeant
Username: Cd

Post Number: 100
Registered: 9-2005
Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 - 10:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Diana,

Why would environmental factors affect Jack and no one else? I can see where you are going with this but its not like the Salem Witch Trials where a number of people went off the deep end.

c.d.

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