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A. Thompson
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| | Posted on Thursday, October 28, 2004 - 12:06 pm: | 
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I'm trying to figure out the logic in the general assumption that the killer was left handed (based on the incision of the throat). Can anyone please explain forensically why this is so? Also, does it remain the same for all of the key victims (Nichols, Chapman, Stride, Eddows, and Kelly)? |
CB
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| | Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 - 11:56 pm: |
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Hi Thompson,
Dr Bond claimed that all the victims had there throat cut from left to right except for Kelly. He claimed that the mutilation done to Kelly made it imposible for him to be certain of the direction her throat was cut. He stated that he believed that Mary was attacked from the left side or the front. Patricia Cornwell claimed that Kelly had her throat cut from right to left. She basis this on the fact that the cut is deeper on the right side and tappers off to the left. The other woman had a wound that was deeper on the left side and tappers off to the right. a good example of this can be found in Evans and skinner's book The Ultimate Jack The Ripper Companion. A drawing by Fredrick William Foster made at the mortuary prior to the autopsy clearly shows that Eddowes cut is deeper on the left side and tappers off to the right. The cut is always going to be deeper at the point it is started. Take a pencil and make a slash. The mark is going to be darker at the point it is started and lighter at the point it ends. If Dr. Bond is correct and Mary was attacked from the front and her throat was cut from right to left then she may have been attacked by a right handed man. If all the victims were indeed ripper victims then I believe the others were attacked from behind causing a left to right cut. The key is Kelly if she was attacked from the front and her throat was cut from right to left then I would guess she was attacked by a right handed man. A left handed man would not cut a persons throat from right to left when attacking them from the front.
Your friend, Brad |
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