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Chris Phillips
Detective Sergeant
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 66
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 6:10 am: |       |
Last night London Weekend Television showed a half-hour documentary on Jack the Ripper as part of its "London's Scariest Mysteries" series.
Four main suspects were presented: Aaron Kosminksy, Walter Sickert, Sir William Gull and James Maybrick.
Much of the content was from "talking heads" Paul Begg, Donald Rumbelow, Melvyn Fairclough and Shirley Harrison.
As the list of prime suspects suggests, nothing novel was presented in the way of evidence or interpretation. Though the programme was short, that didn't prevent some surprising blunders, such as confusing the Lusk letter with the Openshaw letter.
The conclusion was that we still don't know who the Ripper was!
Just thought it might be worth leaving a record of the programme here for future reference.
Chris Phillips
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Caroline Anne Morris
Detective Sergeant
Username: Caz
Post Number: 102
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 5:31 am: | |
'The conclusion was that we still don't know who the Ripper was!'
Well, Chris, that's a relief isn't it? Anything that serves to educate the public away from thinking anyone has cleared up one of London's scariest mysteries (the clue is in the prog's title), with their preferred solution, has to be a move in the right direction, I think.
However, I wasn't keen on the impression the narration may have given that there were only four suspects to examine (or at least worth examining), one of these being the ripper, despite the fact that, one by one, they were all stamped 'Not Proven'.
Love,
Caz |
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