by Robert House
22. Andrew Morrison, A Very Discreet Man: James Monro and the Whitechapel Murders, www.casebook.org/police_officials/po-monro.html.
23. Ibid.
24. Leopold Greenberg, “In the Communal Armchair,” Jewish Chronicle, March 4, 1910.
25. Anderson, “The Lighter Side of My Official Life (Part VI).
26. “The ‘Jack the Ripper’ Theory: Reply by Sir Robert Anderson. To the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle,” Globe, March 7, 1910.
27. “The ‘Jack the Ripper’ Theory: Reply by Sir Robert Anderson,” Jewish Chronicle, March 11, 1910.
28. Ibid.
29. Chaim Bermant, Point of Arrival (London: Macmillan, 1975), 118.
30. Anderson, The Lighter Side of My Official Life, 139.
19. Macnaghten and Swanson
1. Report of Melville Macnaghten, February 23, 1894, MEPO 3/141, ff. 179–180.
2. Philip Sugden, The Complete History of Jack the Ripper (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2002), 379, cites “ ‘Memorandum on articles which appeared in the Sun re JACK THE RIPPER on 13 Feb. 1894 and subsequent dates’ by ‘my father Sir M. M.,’ copied by Christabel Aberconway, pp. 5–6, 6A, 6B. Document in private ownership.”
3. The “Aberconway draft” of the Macnaghten memorandum, cited in John Eddleston, Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2001), 175.
4. Chris Scott, quoted on podcast “Killers on the Loose: Eliminating the Suspects,” Rippercast, January 2009, www.casebook.org/podcast.
5. Letter of James Swanson, cited by Paul Begg at www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?p=103121.
6. Property of Nevill Swanson, great-great-grandson of Donald Sutherland Swanson, on permanent loan to Scotland Yard’s Crime Museum.
7. Charles Nevin, “Has This Man Revealed the Real Jack the Ripper?” Daily Telegraph, October 19, 1987.
8. Posted on casebook.org message boards thread “The Swanson Marginalia,” January 23, 2006.
9. E-mail correspondence with Paul Begg. In 1900, the Borough of Stepney was formed by combining fourteen civil districts, including Mile End Old Town, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, St. George in the East, and several other areas.
10. Swanson apparently believed this as early as 1895, as noted in an article in the Pall Mall Gazette on May 7, 1895, cited online at “Donald Swanson,” http://wiki.casebook.org/index.php/Donald_Swanson.
11. Stewart P. Evans, “Kosminski and the Seaside Home,” 1999, www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-koz.html.
12. Charles Nevin, “Whitechapel Murders. Sensational New Evidence,” Daily Telegraph, October 19, 1987.
13. Charles Nevin, “Has This Man Revealed the Real Jack the Ripper?” Daily Telegraph, October 19, 1987.
20. A Few Possible Leads
1. George R. Sims, “My Criminal Museum,” Lloyd’s Weekly News (London), September 22, 1907.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. “A Sherlock Holmes in Real Life,” City Press (London), December 6, 1924.
5. “A Notable Career,” Brighton Gazette, December 6, 1924.
6. “A Famous City Detective. Some of His Experiences Retold,” City Press (London),
January 7, 1905.
7. Justin Atholl, “Who Was Jack the Ripper?” Reynold’s News, Great Unsolved Mysteries series, September 15, 1946.
8. Ibid.
9. Donald Swanson, marginalia in his personal copy of Robert Anderson’s book The Lighter Side of My Official Life (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910), property of Nevill Swanson, on permanent loan to New Scotland Yard’s Crime Museum.
10. Scott Nelson, “The Butcher’s Row Suspect. Was He Jack the Ripper?” Ripperologist, October 2007.
11. “Mr. Henry Cox, Ex-Detective-Inspector, London City,” Police Review and Parade Gossip, December 7, 1906.
12. “The Truth about the Whitechapel Mysteries, Told by Harry Cox,” Thomson’s Weekly News, Saturday, December 1, 1906. This article was discovered by Stewart Evans and Nick Connell around 1999.
13. Henry J. Bowsher was conducting house-to-house surveys of “Jailor Street [sic Yalford Street] and Plumber’s Row” on October 5, 1888.
14. “East-End Atrocities,” Echo, October 17, 1888.
15. Swanson marginalia.
16. Anderson, The Lighter Side of My Official Life, 137.
17. Stewart P. Evans and Donald Rumbelow, Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates (Stroud: Sutton, 2006), 231.
18. Orders for reception of lunatics into asylums, 1889–1891, LMA StBG/ME/107/8, no. 1558.
19. “East End Atrocities,” Echo, October 20, 1888.
20. “The Truth about the Whitechapel Mysteries, Told by Harry Cox,” Thomson’s Weekly News, December 1, 1906. This article was discovered by Stewart Evans and Nick Connell around 1999.
21. The Identification, the Witness, and the Informant
1. Robert Anderson, The Lighter Side of My Official Life (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910), 138.
2. Inquest report of Joseph Levy, Corporation of London Records Office, coroner’s inquest (L), 1888, no. 135, Catherine Eddowes inquest.
3. Macnaghten memorandum, Aberconway draft. Philip Sugden cites “Memorandum on articles which appeared in the Sun re JACK THE RIPPER on 13 Feb. 1894 and subsequent dates’ by ‘my father Sir M. M.,’ copied by Christabel Aberconway, pp. 5–6, 6A, 6B. Document in private ownership.” in The Complete History of Jack the Ripper (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2002).
4. Sugden, Complete History of Jack the Ripper, 406.
5. Posted on the casebook.org message boards thread “Ep. #28—Kosminski Was the Suspect,” September 24, 2008.
6. Anderson, The Lighter Side of My Official Life, 138.
7. Donald Swanson, marginalia in his personal copy of Anderson’s book The Lighter Side of My Official Life, property of Nevill Swanson, on permanent loan to New Scotland Yard’s Crime Museum.
8. Macnaghten memorandum, Aberconway draft.
9. George R. Sims, “My Criminal Museum,” Lloyd’s Weekly News (London), September 22, 1907.
10. Testimony of Joseph Lawende, Daily Telegraph, October 12, 1888.
11. “The East End Atrocities, the Mitre Square Murder, Inquest and Verdict,” Daily News (London), October 12, 1888.
12. “Supposed Clue,” Evening News, October 9, 1888.
13. Swanson marginalia.
14. Elizabeth Loftus, Eyewitness Testimony (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).
15. “Eyewitness misidentification,” www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Eyewitness-Misidentification.php.
16. Swanson marginalia.
17. Hargrave Lee Adam, C. I. D. Behind the Scenes at Scotland Yard (London: S. Low, Marston, 1931), 13.
18. “The Littlechild Letter,” discovered by, and property of, Stewart Evans.
19. Swanson marginalia.
20. Private correspondence, March 2009.
21. Charities Register and Digest (London: Longman’s Green, 1890).
22. Posted by Chris Phillips on casebook.org message boards thread “Anderson—More Questions Than Answers,” October 2008.
23. Justin Atholl, “Who Was Jack the Ripper?” Reynold’s News, Great Unsolved Mysteries series, September 15, 1946.
24. “The Truth about the Whitechapel Mysteries, Told by Harry Cox,” Thomson’s Weekly News, December 1, 1906.
25. Ibid.
26. Swanson marginalia.
27. “The Truth about the Whitechapel Mysteries, Told by Harry Cox.”
28. Ibid.
29. Phillips, “Anderson—More Questions Than Answers.”
30. “Representative Men at Home: Dr. Anderson at New Scotland Yard,” Cassell’s Saturday Journal, June 11, 1892, 895–897.
31. “East-End Atrocities,” Echo, October 17, 1888.
32. David Wright, Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum, 1847–1901 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001), 55–56.
33. “Jack the Ripper’s Vacation,” Galveston (Texas) Daily News, July 29, 1890.
34. Discovered by Stephen Ryder and published by him in his article “Emily and the Bibliophile: A Possible Source for Macnaghten’s Private Information,” www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-emily.html.
35. The “Aberconway draft” of the Macnaghten memorandum, cited in John Eddleston, Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2001), 175.
22. Not Guilty?
1. Charles Nevin, “Has This Man Revealed the Real Jack the Ripper?” Daily Telegraph, October 19, 1987.
2. Philip Sugden, The Complete History of Jack the Ripper (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2002), 423.
3. Report of Melville Macnaghten, February 23, 1894, MEPO 3/141, ff. 179–180.
4. Fido argued that “Kosminski” was in fact a man named Nathan Kaminsky who (Fido theorized) was later entered into an asylum under the name David Cohen. I do not agree with this theory.
5. Leavesden Asylum Male Patients Case Register 12A.
6. Colney Hatch, Register of Admissions Males, no 3. H12/CH/B2/2.
7. Kozminski is listed as a lunatic in the 1901 census of Leavesden patients, PRO, ref. RG 13/1322.
8. Private correspondence with David Wright, April 2009.
9. Orders for reception of lunatics into asylums, 1889–1891, LMA StBG/ME/107/8, no. 1558.
10. Posted by Chris Phillips on the casebook.org message boards thread “Did Anderson Know?” May 2009.
11. Posted by Martin Fido on the casebook.org message boards thread “The Only Patient Who Fits Anderson’s Account?” August 2008.
23. A Modern Take on Serial Killers
1. Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (New York: Berkley, 2004), 45–49. Vronsky cites the manuscript of an ecclesiastical trial in Archives de la Loire-Atlantique, G. 189.
2. Joseph Richardson Parke, “Human Sexuality: A Medico-Literary Treatise on the Laws, Anomalies, and Relations of Sex, with Especial Reference to Contrary Sexual Desire,” 1906. The account was first published in Paul Johann Anselm Fuerbach’s Aktenmassige Darstellung Merkwurdiger Verbrechen (Giessen, 1828).
3. Vronsky, Serial Killers, 58–59.
4. Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct, trans. by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, MD (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1894), 303.
5. Cesar Lombroso, Criminal Man, trans. Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 1.
6. Robert K. Ressler, Ann Wolbert Burgess, and John E. Douglas, Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives (New York: Free Press, 1992), 9.
7. Ibid., 71.
8. Brent E. Turvey, Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis (San Diego: Academic Press, 2002), 313.
9. Ibid., 323.
10. Vronsky, Serial Killers, 164.
11. Ressler, Burgess, and Douglas, Sexual Homicide, 33.
12. Quentin L. Pittman, “The Importance of Fairy Fay, and Her Link to Emma Smith,” posted on casebook.org, http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/importance-fairy.html.
13. Ressler, Burgess, and Douglas, Sexual Homicide, 42.
14. Polly Nelson, Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy’s Last Lawyer (New York: William Morrow, 1994), 283–284.
15. Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer (Irving, TX: Authorlink Press, 2000), 77.
16. Ressler, Burgess, and Douglas, Sexual Homicide, 21.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., 23.
19. Ibid., 20.
20. Ibid., 73.
21. Roy Hazelwood and Stephen G. Michaud, Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001), 163.
22. John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Mind Hunter, Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Killer Crime Unit (New York: Scribner, 1995), 373–375. See Hazelwood and Michaud, Dark Dreams, 162–163.
23. Report of Melville Macnaghten, February 23, 1894, MEPO 3/141, ff. 179–180.
24. “Jack the Ripper: An On-Going Mystery,” Discovery Channel, directed by Brian Kelly and Virginia Williams, produced by Henninger Productions, 2000.
25. Ressler, Burgess, and Douglas, Sexual Homicide, 130.
26. “Jack the Ripper: An On-Going Mystery.”
27. Phone conversation with Roy Hazelwood, February 2010.
28. “Jack the Ripper: the First Serial Killer,” in Revealed, directed by Dan Oliver, 2006.
29. Ressler, Burgess, and Douglas, Sexual Homicide, 34.
30. “Jack the Ripper: The First Serial Killer.”
31. “A Riot against the Jews,” East London Observer, September 15, 1888.
24. Geographic Profiling
1. “How Does Geographic Profiling Work?” Environmental Criminology Research, Inc., www.ecricanada.com/geopro/howdoesitwork.html.
2. “Rational Choice Theory,” Wikipedia.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory.
3. George R. Sims, “My Criminal Museum,” Lloyd’s Weekly News (London), September 22, 1907.
4. “Dwellings of the Working Classes,” Times (London), January 20, 1886.
5. Robert Anderson, “The Lighter Side of My Official Life (Part VI),” Blackwood’s Edinburgh, March 1910.
6. Sims, “My Criminal Museum.”
7. “The Circle Hypothesis Revisited: Modelling Property Offenders’ Spatial Behaviour Using Sketch Maps,” Dr. Karen Shalev, lecturer, University of Portsmouth, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, from a presentation given at the 8th International Investigative Psychology Conference, December 2005, www.i-psy.co.uk/conferences/8/presentations/karen_shalev.ppt.
8. Joshua D. Kent, “Using Functional Distance Measures When Calibrating Journey-to-Crime Distance Decay Algorithms,” Louisiana State University, 2003.
9. Colin Roberts, “Informal Preview of Geo-Spatial Analysis Project,” casebook.org message board, February 2009.
10. D. Kim Rossmo’s Environmental Criminology Research, Inc., Web site, company overview, http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~ecri/about/index.html.
11. Arthur G. Morrison, “Whitechapel,” Palace Journal, April 24, 1889, www.casebook.org/victorian_london/whitechapel3.html.
12. Ibid.
13. Philip Sugden, The Complete History of Jack the Ripper (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2002), 214.
25. Schizophrenia and Violence
1. Simon A. Hill and Richard Laugharne, “Mania, Dementia and Melancholia in the 1870s: Admissions to a Cornwall Asylum,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 96 (July 1, 2003).
2. Ibid.
3. Henry Munro, “On the Nomenclature of the Various Forms of Insanity,” British Journal of Psychiatry 2 (1856): 286–305, cited in Hill and Laugharne, “Mania, Dementia and Melancholia in the 1870s.”
4. Elaine Walker, Lisa Kestler, Annie Bollini, and Karen M. Hochman, “Schizophrenia: Etiology and Course,” Emory University, Annual Review of Psychology 55 (February 2004): 401–430.
5. U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Schizophrenia (2002), www.schizophrenia.com/research/surg.general.1.2002.htm.
6. Walker, Kestler, Bollini, and Hochman, “Schizophrenia: Etiology and Course.”
7. Benjamin J. Sadock, Harold I. Kaplan, and Virginia A. Sadock, Kaplan and Sadock’s Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2008), 167.
8. Walker, Kestler, Bollini, and Hochman, “Schizophrenia: Etiology and Course.”
9. Sadock, Kaplan, and Sadock, Kaplan and Sadock’s Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, 476.
10. Orders for reception of lunatics into asylums, 1889–1891, LMA StBG/ME/107/8, no. 1558; Colney Hatch, Register of Admissions Males, no 3. H12/CH/B2/2; and Male Patients Day Book, New Series, no. 20, Middlesex Asylum, Colney Hatch. See also, 1891 Census, Colney Hatch, RG 12/1058, f. 102.
11. Colney Hatch Case Book Male Side, New Series, no. 20, H12/CH/B13/39.
12. Leavesden Asylum Male Patients Case Register 12A.
13. E-mail correspondence with Lauren
Post, June 2009.
14. Elyn Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness (New York: Hyperion, 2007), 51.
15. Ibid., 84.
16. Ibid., 92.
17. Ibid., 98.
18. National Schizophrenia Fellowship Web site, Rethink.org, www.rethink.org/about_mental_illness/mental_illnesses_and_disorders/schizophrenia/index.html.
19. Orders for reception of lunatics into asylums, 1889–1891, LMA StBG/ME/107/8, no. 1558.
20. Sadock, Kaplan, and Sadock, Kaplan and Sadock’s Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, 488.
21. Leavesden Asylum Male Patients Case Register 12A.
22. E. Walsh, A. Buchanan, and T. Fahy, “Violence and Schizophrenia: Examining the Evidence,” British Journal of Psychiatry 180 (June 2002): 490–495.
23. Paul E. Mullen, “Schizophrenia and Violence: From Correlations to Preventive Strategies,” Royal College of Psychiatrists, Monash University, Melbourne, 2006.
24. Edwin Fuller Torrey, Out of the Shadows: Confronting America’s Mental Illness Crisis (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1996), 52.
25. Elizabeth Walsh, “Violence and Schizophrenia: Examining the Evidence,” British Journal of Psychiatry 180 (2002): 490–495.
26. Jeffrey W. Swanson et al., “A National Study of Violent Behavior in Persons with Schizophrenia,” Archives of General Psychiatry 63 (May 2006): 490–499, www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127.
27. James Cowles Pritchard, A Treatise on Insanity (London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1835), 4.
28. Ian Pitchford, “The Origins of Violence: Is Psychopathy an Adaptation?” Human Nature Review 1 (November 5, 2001): 28–36.
29. Hervey Milton Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Reinterpret the So-Called Psychopathic Personality, 3rd ed. (St. Louis: Mosby, 1955), 424.
30. Edward Mitchell, “The Aetiology of Serial Murder” (unpublished master’s thesis, University of Cambridge, UK, 1996–1997).
31. Robert R. Hazelwood and John Douglas, “The Lust Murderer,” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, April 1980.