“Catch me when you can” is known as the infamous quote of Jack the Ripper sent to a man named Lusk along with half a woman’s kidney. Jack the Ripper was known for his brutal mutilation of his victims, who were only women. The only thing his victims had in common was that they were all prostitutes of London’s East End by White Chapel Road. Now, the movies portray Jack as a classy man in a top hat carrying a knife. This is a false statement. Having Jack look like that would only scare the women away when evidence shows that they took him into private places. It was decided that Jack was a common man who was able to slip easily in and out of the crowd. Some even thought that Jack was an American doctor, Doctor Tumbletee. He was said to be homosexual and according to behavioral analyst, serial killers generally kill those that they are attracted to. That ruled him out of the suspect area even though he was known as a quack. Since October of 2009, a suspect by the name of Robert Mann was brought up in the Jack the Ripper case. I looked into this theory as well as put together pieces of my own theory to come up with my ideal Jack the Ripper. I believe that he was MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) and that he himself was weak, shy, poor, and insignificant to the world as a whole. There was one woman, his mother, who was there for him but she would have died when he was a young boy so that he would have had to work in a work house. Later on in his years he had a woman or lover, maybe even someone he stalked, leave him for another man or was a prostitute. He became angry and in this fit of rage and pity he would have created his other personalities such as the protector, the charmer and the intellect. Each one would take on a role during the murders, ranging from the premeditation to the deed to the writing of letters to the police and other people out to find him. At first the killings made him feel powerful and manly even, but as they continuously became more horrific, he would become naturally guilty for everything that “he” did. Robert Mann was a Morgue assistant which only made sense with the personality and traits that Jack would have had. He was said to have had fits, this could be explained by the multiple personalities dwelling within him. I do believe that all of the letters written were his but not all by the same personality. According to each murder a personality committed they would have written their own letter; each having the same repetitive symbol and their own unique touch. This would help explain the differentiation in the mutilation of each victim that Jack was said to have had in his time of killing. As the murders stopped, Robert Mann would have either been put into an Insane Asylum or committed suicide, or both. He would have crazed himself with guilt and what he had done that it would drive him further into insanity, possibly even enough for him to off himself. There are many theories and suspects to the Jack the Ripper case that one would have to take years to look through and even start to come up with a plausible and unique theory of their own. But Jack was the star of all serial killers in history, despite the fact that he had the least amount of victims in his 10 weeks of murders. He is the elusive man that no one caught…or had they? I am presuming that it will be centuries, maybe never, that we find out who the real Ripper was. Until he’s discovered, the world will only continue to breed and feed the story into the society and youth to keep the case alive.
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