i personally think they never caught him. he was an intelligent man and i'm sure he fled after his "last" victim. i think the government knew about it and just wanted to pretend that nothing was happening because it was just happening to the ladies of the night.

Okay, first let me apologize for getting the subject line of my first post on this tribe wrong. I was debating whether to talk about who the killer was or the number of victims and was so tired I got mixed up. My apologies.

So who do I think it was? I think it was someone who knew White Chapel like the back of his hand, probably a local. He was someone who could mix with the crowds and not attract a lot of attention. He loathed women and prostitutes in particular. Using what we know now about serial killers, by the time he killed Kelly he was just about at the end of his tether and could probably barely function. Kelly's murder and mutilation were so viscious that any murder which followed would have stuck out too, since he wouldn't have been able to get the "thrill" he needed from less mutilation. Also, the police stopped their efforts to catch the killer after Kelly's murder, which they wouldn't have done on such a high-profile case unless they knew positively who the killer was.

So I don't think he was an uppper-class person or that there was a conspiracy. He may have been a man named Aaron Kosminski, who was placed in an insane asylum shortly after Kelly was killed. It also may have been a seaman or someone else who could just come into Whitechapel, mix with the crowds and do what he needed to do without attracting much attention.

In short, I don't know. :-)

He probaly hated his mother, who was a whore, and he was abused by all her callers. and he probaly been doing the killing for years. he just stayed in one area to long. i don't believe he stopped. he just moved on.

Wasn't there an American doctor suspect?

Wasn't he in the neighborhood during the Whitechapel killings AND during similar killings in the US?