Jill the Ripper?

I’ve never been a “Ripper” fanatic. The case of Jack the Ripper is just another insoluble historical who-done-it as far as I’m concerned — on a par with the Princes in the Tower and the assassination of JFK. But I found it fascinating to learn that several somehat-prominent figures have been suspected of the Whitechapel Murders. Here, from Casebook, is a gallery of suspects:

Prince Albert Victor Joseph Barnett Alfred Napier Blanchard

W.H. Bury Lewis Carroll David Cohen

Dr. T. Neill Cream Frederick Deeming Montague John Druitt

Fogelma George Hutchinson (Br.) Jill the Ripper

James Kelly Severin Klosowski (George Chapman) Aaron Kosminski

Jacob Levy The Lodger James Maybrick

Michael Ostrog Dr. Pedachenko The Royal Conspiracy

Walter Sickert James Kenneth Stephen R. D´Onston Stephenson

Francis Thompson Francis Tumblety Nicholas Vassily

I had heard about the candidacy of Prince Albert Victor (a grandson of Queen Victoria and a great-great uncle of the present Queen Elizabeth), and about the Royal conspiracy. Patricia Cornwell has touted actor-artist Walter Sickert as the Ripper in her book, Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed. But Lewis Carroll, James Kenneth Stephen, and Francis Thompson — writers of more or less renown — are news to me.

My money’s on Mary Pearcey (Jill the Ripper). Follow the links and draw your own conclusions.

(Thanks to Oxblog for the pointer to Casebook.)