<Dear Boss,
I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they wont fix me just yet. I have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track. That joke about Leather Apron gave me real fits. I am down on @#$%*s and I shant quit ripping them till I do get buckled. Grand work the last job was. I gave the lady no time to squeal. How can they catch me now. I love my work and want to start again. You will soon hear of me with my funny little games. I saved some of the proper red stuff in a ginger beer bottle over the last job to write with but it went thick like glue and I cant use it. Red ink is fit enough I hope ha. ha. The next job I do I shall clip the ladys ears off and send to the police officers just for jolly wouldn't you. Keep this letter back till I do a bit more work, then give it out straight. My knife's so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get a chance. Good Luck.

Yours truly
Jack the Ripper

Dont mind me giving the trade name

PS Wasnt good enough to post this before I got all the red ink off my hands curse it No luck yet. They say I'm a doctor now. ha ha>

The spelling errors are said to have been made on purpose. Why, I don't know.

Here's another one with a great final move:

[Event "French Corres Ch"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1986.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Simon, G."]
[Black "Weirich, P."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E30"]
[PlyCount "60"]

http://www.met.police.uk/history/ri...

List of proposed suspects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...

Which do you think was his last actual murder? Did he finish with the canonical five? There are several more possible victims listed, although they might be the work of crazy people following Jack's example.

Of the main suspects (Druitt, Kosminski, Chapman, Ostrog, Pizer, Tumblety) Chapman still seems the most likely to me. Of the other suspects mentioned later, James Kelly is an interesting case, while the Royal conspiracy theory really seems too sci-fi like.

i never really thought of druitt as a real suspect. i think he was considered as a suspect because he might have been gay. and gay serial killers dont kill women.

<"it is now accepted that a killer's modus operandi can change, sometimes quite dramatically."> i didnt know this. i remember that was one of the strong arguments against chapman; the necessary change of m.o.

iirc after tumblety fled to america there were no more ripper murders. and as i previously stated, i believe the police knew who the ripper was and that he wouldnt be committing any more murders in white chapel since they pulled the extra police off of the streets. so, if i recall this correctly, he is an interesting suspect.

there was a time where i was pretty convinced that aron kosminski was the ripper, but i think i may have had some facts mixed up that led me to my conclusion.