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Walter Sickert.

He certainly seemed to be involved in the Ripper case in some way (Stephen Knight's book on the case had him prominent, though not the killer), but I saw a BBC programme about Cornwell's search and she seemed to have focused on him at an early stage as the killer and just set out to try to persuade the public rather than produce evidence.

A couple of links for you too look at....

http://www.casebook.org/

http://www.wordspider.net/wa/walter-sickert.html

Sickert is a pointless candidate too persue as a Ripper suspect!

He's name is only connected because of that Royal/Mason bullshit
theory put forward by Stephen Knight.
The Dr.Tumblety theory is more plausible than that guy as the Ripper!

The royal/Mason theory was the basis of two films, Murder By Decree and From Hell.

One thing that Knight did point out was that prostitutes being murdered in London was nothing unusual, but for some reason Victoria put pressure on the authorities to do something about the Whitechapel killings. The rise in people buying cheap, sensationalist newspapers might have had something to do with the Ripper killings gaining such notoriety, but it doesn't explain why people remain fascinated by the mystery.

A few years back, there was a book that blamed a well-to-do businessman who was himself poisoned, allegedly by his wife. Everyone seems to have a theory, and a suspect, but there will never be a solution. Cornwell wasting vast amounts of money trying to blame a nasty, little known artist is just symptomatic of the whole Ripper industry.

Maybrick was that one's name I think.
One of the latest candidate is Dr. John Williams.


Mart

Cornwell wasted vast amounts of money and defaced several meaningful pieces of art in the process. For someone apparently so 'intelligent', and 'skilled' in the Forensic field, she didn't half make a good job of making herself look like a right halfwit.

Tumblety is my man, the bungling Met let him out of the country right under their noses. Hence the 100-year retention of files and subsequent cover-up: usual police nonsense/ buffoonery. A pathological hatred of women, a private collection of uteri, basic medical experience.....does it get any more damning?! US newspaper archives from that period recognise him as 'The Ripper of London' who 'fled England'.

Ripperology is an interesting subject, but will we EVER know...............

I doubt we ever will. They were horrible crimes, but it was a violent time, and life was cheap. It's been suggested a few times, though, that the Ripper was the midwife of the 20th century.

Oh, and thanks, Mart, it was Maybrick.

You'll have seen by some of the posts on the main forum that anything involving violence is an immediate turn-off for many of us. I know that others may find it a turn on, but to me pornography is all about aesthetics--- and there is nothing beautiful about violence, as far as I'm concerned.