Author: Brian Garner
Tuesday, 06 July 1999 - 05:48 pm |        |
I have been interested in the 'Jack the Ripper' case for many years and have read numerous books on the subject. However, in all this time nobody (and correct me if I am wrong) has ever has connect the crime wirh the murderer's obsession with womens necks. In all cases the victims throats were severed. And hence if you take the first letter of each of the victims surname:
Nichols
Eddowes
Chapman
Kelly
Stride
We have the acronym N.E.C.K.S
It therefore could be plausable that once he had found the victims that formed this Acronym his quest was complete.
I would be interested in fellow 'Ripperologists' comments. |
Author: Desdinova
Wednesday, 21 July 1999 - 08:03 am | |
I too have read about the ripper case for years, and I haven't heard anyone else say anything about that.I haven't even thought of it, and I consider it to be a very plausible reason.Especially as they are in order.Of course, there is a slight chance it is all just co-incidence,but that's no way to think, is it?
Good point,Brian.
Desdinova/Des for short. |
Author: Jill
Wednesday, 21 July 1999 - 08:39 am | |
I like the find of the acronym, but the victims were not killed in this order.
Nichols
Chapman
Stride
Eddowes
Kelly
But maybe he didn't want the puzzle to easy too find, if Jacks intentions were an acronym. And for those who are of the opinion that Stride was not a Ripper victim, you still have NECK.
This acronym only stands if they were the only Ripper victims. If he had some try-outs or successes before them the word NECK or NECKS doesn't stand anymore.
Still I'll keep your find in mind.
Jill |
Author: Christopher George
Wednesday, 21 July 1999 - 11:43 am | |
Hey, folks:
I don't think the idea of connecting the opening initials of the victims' last names has any merit whatsoever. If you stare at something long enough you can make anything out of it you like. Richard Wallace has proven this with the anagrams he says he found in Lewis Carroll's works that supposedly make Carroll out to be the Ripper. NECKS? If we add Tabram, we would have NECKST....
Chris George |
Author: Jon
Wednesday, 21 July 1999 - 01:20 pm | |
Point 1 - these women lived using different names
Point 2 - Is Jack supposed to have known there names before hand?.
Jon
(NECKST theory ?) |
Author: Caz
Thursday, 22 July 1999 - 02:12 pm | |
Brian, you were a tad lucky that there was one victim whose name began with a vowel, otherwise you'd have been hard pushed to find any word at all :-)
I think the ancient Egyptians got by without revealing to us how their vowels would have sounded, so maybe we could consider the Curse of the Pharoahs as part of our 'nckst' theory.
Love,
Caz |
Author: Jon
Friday, 23 July 1999 - 03:40 am | |
Well, M'Lady the Egyptians devised a way without vowels, by appending the vowel to the letter, (they new not, the vowel) thereby offering several pronounciations of the same letter. As in the case of the letter 'S' they also had Sa, Su... or 'K' Ka aK (ach) so you end up with a cumbersome alphabet offering several versions or pronouciations of the same letter.
(not that anyone's interested)
Jon |
Author: Caz
Monday, 26 July 1999 - 06:28 am | |
Hi Jon,
I'm vry ntrstd Jn. I lve lngge. :-)
But I can't get my tongue round hieroglyphs mate. You explained it far better than I could, but there again, you are typing it, not pronouncing it. We still don't really know how it all sounded back then do we? Perhaps we should try bringing 'mummy' back to tell us. If I knock on his sarcophagus will he tell me to tootandcomein?
Hey, this is much more fun than acronyms!
Next.
Love,
Caz |
