Rainy day and Jack the ripper


Yesterday was a long rainy day and I've started reading the book, Portrait of a killer by Patricia Cornwell. The book is mainly about unraveling the mystery of Jack the ripper and the author believes that Walter Sickert, the English painter, might have been the ripper.

In the 19th century, in the year 1888, from August to November, 5 women (also known as the canonical five) were brutally murdered in the White Chapel area in London. The killer was never found by the police and the killer came to be known as Jack the Ripper from the signature on the letters that the alleged murderer used to send to the police, basically to mock their failure at finding out who he is.

Anyway, here are pictures of the ripper's victims, as you can see they died in atrocious conditions, most of them having their organs and genitals ripped out and disfigured by their killer.

Jack the Ripper gave me horrible nightmares those past nights. I'm never afraid of him or of murder or of horrible corpses when I'm awake but in my dreams they become different; seeing a person smash another one's head with a hammer is somewhat trauma-inducing. Hehe...

Anyway, if you did not know about the ripper, wikipedia can enlighten your soul.


Take care dudettes and dudes and my frightened aliens. I've got loads of good sleep to catch up. So long!


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13 serious thoughts:

Anonymous said...

Great post. That guy was real and his name was jack and he killed. Duh. I still dont get the sudden interest in the ripper, honey.. :S

Anonymous said...

that's cause the ripper is fascinating! :D

Anonymous said...

was waiting for u to fix your "mega prob zimaz lor sa cuyonad blogger la" but i have to go. alor so nice of you to remind me there are tonnes of psychopaths in the uk and you know you're tough! to bne reves la faire per, take care moo. dodo bien

Anonymous said...

hehe usha! et b wi ena plin psychopath partou osi!

Anonymous said...

People who get nightmares easily should not read such books. You brought it on yourself :P

Anyways, I just want to add, I'm innocent :P

Anonymous said...

hehe! you might be the ripper for all we know! hmmm

Anonymous said...

Psychopaths are always good... hobbies :P

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the link Fadil, I'll look it up! :D And aliens are always welcomed here! hihi, they've got their well-deserved place.

Nussaibah, yup definitely! great hobbies for some. There are even ripperologists! :O

Anonymous said...

it sounds brutal indeed. it reminds me to sherlock holmes stories.

Anonymous said...

those pictures are scary!.. I watched this movie recently- memories of a murder about that was in all probability inspired by jack the ripper that was just as chilling.. nice blog..:)

Anonymous said...

Psychopaths have a different way of seeing things & we must respect their opinions LOL

Anonymous said...

Ropi, yup the only difference is that the ripper was not fiction as compared to Holmes cases. :D

filarial, thanks! i'm gonna look for the movie.

slasher, hehe, pa bizin disturb zot si.. hihi!

Anonymous said...

Very good one ! appreciated reading this one ! very doccumented ;)