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Article: Jack the Ripper 'carried on his killing abroad'; EAST END MURDERER MIGHT HAVE BEEN A SAILOR, NEW FINDINGS REVEAL.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 3, 2005
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Byline: FLORA STUBBS
JACK the Ripper may have been a sailor whose killings continued abroad once he left the East End of London, a new study has claimed.
"Ripperologists" have in the past agreed that the serial murderer was likely to have been a surgeon, because of the clinical way he disembowelled his victims.
But a new book by a former police detective has revealed evidence suggesting "Jack" was a merchant seaman, who left the capital for Nicaragua after his last and most famous murder - that of prostitute Mary Kelly in Whitechapel on 8 November 1888.
In Jack The Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation, author Trevor Mariott says the ...