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Chris Scott
Detective Sergeant
Username: Chris
Post Number: 75
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 02, 2003 - 1:08 pm: |       |
I found this account of the Eckert investigation being set up:
Elyria Chronicle Telegram 31 January 1988
Investigators on Jack the Ripper's trail
Wichita, Kan.
A team of investigators is on the trail of Jack the Ripper and may finally nail him as his crimes turn 100 years old.
"What we're going to do is have as close to an answer as we can to who the Ripper was," says Dr. William G. Eckert, an internationally known forensic pathologist coordinating the investigation.
A genial, gray haired, barrel chested man of 61, Eckert has played an investigative role in many sensational cases, including the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, the Charles Manson and John Gacy murders, more than a dozen major airline crashes and the identification of the remains of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
For the Ripper project, Eckert has assembled a team that includes a forensic dentist, blood and handwriting experts, an FBI criminal profiling specialist and former Los Angeles County Coroner Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi.
Jack the Ripper murdered five prostitutes in England during a four month spree in 1888. Eckert believes applying modern investigative techniques to the Ripper's notes, crime scenes and other evidence can shed new light on the case.
He is coordinating the Ripper effort from Wichita. Kan., his home for more than 20 years. It is also the location of the Milton Helpern International Center for the Forensic Sciences, which he founded in 1975.
A Wichita State University classroom has been converted into a researcj library that houses autopsy reports, video and audio tapesm books and newspaper clipping files about many of the darkest crimes and grimmest tragedies in history.
Anyone know what conclusion, if any, they arrived at?
Chris S
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Robert Clack
Detective Sergeant
Username: Rclack
Post Number: 76
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 02, 2003 - 5:32 pm: | |
Hi Chris
There was a TV program of it, I don't think it was broadcast in the UK, but a video was released under the title "The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper" in 1988. The video was hosted by Peter Ustinov with Jan Leeming. There were four suspects debated Sir William Gull, Montague Druitt, Roslyn D'Onston and Aaron Kosminski.
With the help of F.B.I profilling they decided it was Kosminski.
Chris your timing is impeccable as the program is due to be re-released on region 2 dvd on the 19 May. Presumably it will be available on video to.
Best wishes
Rob |
Chris Scott
Detective Sergeant
Username: Chris
Post Number: 80
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 6:38 am: | |
Hi Robert
many thanks for the info
As it happens I have that show on VHS so I must rewatch it!
Many thanks
Chris
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Bruce Tonnermann
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Friday, May 02, 2003 - 3:36 pm: | |
The Eckert report on the Ripper was published as follows: -
January 1981 in 'INFORM', the International Reference Organization in Forensic Medicine, Volume 13, Number 1.
March 1981 in The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Volume 2 Number 1.
1989 in The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Vol 10 Number 2.
Eckert took part in the 1988 TV investigation that resulted in the videocassette The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper, in which, of the suspects looked at, Kosminski was favoured by the panel.
It has to be said that the information and sources used by Eckert were flawed, incomplete and misleading, as may be seen by some common errors and fallacies contained in the articles. |
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