I saw this a few weeks ago in our New York Post, and I don't see that anyone has commented on it.
It's just an item of interest, that a relative of the one of the original investigators on the case, has been doing her own research and come up with a new suspect for Jack The Ripper: (I wouldn't imagine that a person who had trouble walking would be able to run off, as JTR had to I'm sure, but it was just interesting that a relative was involved)
Relative of original Jack the Ripper investigator claims to know never-caught serial killer’s ID
A relative of a former investigator of the Jack the Ripper case claims she knows the real murderer is.
Sarah Bax Horton, who is a relative to an officer who conducted the original investigation, claims a man named Hyam Hyams is the real mysterious serial killer who went on a spree in London in 1888.
Horton, a former police volunteer, said her detective work has led her Hyams, who lived in the area at the same time as the murderer, and that he was a cigar worker, therefore, would give him the knowledge of how to use a knife, the
Telegraph reported.
In addition, Hyams had a dark past littered with alcoholism, epilepsy, and paranoia. He was also arrested after he attacked his wife and his mother with “a chopper,” the Telegraph said.
But what really convinced Horton that Hyams was the real serial killer was his medical records, which gave “distinctive physical characteristics.”
Jack the Ripper victims had described him has having a weird gait and a stiff arm and Hyams’ medical record showed the then-35-year-old had recorded an injury in his left arm that left him unable to “bend or extend” the limb and that he wasn’t able to straighten his knees, leading to foot dragging.
His injuries also coincided with Jack the Ripper’s killings, showing he declined mentally and physically around the time the murders were happening.
“That escalation path matched the increasing violence of the murders,” Horton told the Telegraph. “He was particularly violent after his severe epileptic fits, which explains the periodicity of the murders.
“In the files, it said what the eyewitnesses said – that he had a peculiar gait. He was weak at the knees and wasn’t fully extending his legs. When he walked, he had a kind of shuffling gait, which was probably a side-effect of some brain damage as a result of his epilepsy.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/relat...claims-to-know-who-the-real-serial-killer-is/
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