This was an intriguing documentary about Jack the Ripper, and even talked about some things I'd never heard before, despite being a "Ripperologist" myself. However, some of the theories are so full of holes, I wonder why they presented them at all, or at least why they didn't address those "plot holes" if you will. For example:
One of the Ripper suspects ends up going to America, at which point the killings cease. He then gets married 3 times over the course of 9 years, and poisons each one of his wives. At the time of his execution, he tells the police inspector "Congratulations, you've caught Jack the Ripper at last." As any student of true crime and serial killers knows, they rarely, and I mean RARELY change their M. O. They need to kill a certain type of person in a particular way to get their jollies, and it becomes part of their ritual. This suspect would've drastically changed his behavior the way he killed his wives, but they don't even address that. Still, it's a chilling anecdote, and I do wonder if it could've been him.
The second suspect, himself an infamous American serial killer, H. H. Holmes is listed as a possibility. But here again, we see a dramatic change in M. O. Holmes is not an angry, violent, enraged killer like the Ripper was. His killings are far less "personal" for one thing, and he also didn't discriminate in any way who his victims were. He killed men, women, even children. And again, they don't even touch on this in the documentary.
Overall it's worth a watch, certainly, but if you're a true student of true-crime and a Ripperologist at heart, you'll find some flaws in it that make it less than it could've been.
The second suspect, himself an infamous American serial killer, H. H. Holmes is listed as a possibility. But here again, we see a dramatic change in M. O. Holmes is not an angry, violent, enraged killer like the Ripper was. His killings are far less "personal" for one thing, and he also didn't discriminate in any way who his victims were. He killed men, women, even children. And again, they don't even touch on this in the documentary.
Overall it's worth a watch, certainly, but if you're a true student of true-crime and a Ripperologist at heart, you'll find some flaws in it that make it less than it could've been.
