After like 80 years you probably think you’re safe.
It’s a bit misleading and the tests were performed in 2019 to a disputed shawl owned by the suspect. This wouldn’t hold up in modern court let alone Victorian age court.
Just to be pedantic, the “let alone” turn of phrase is meant to imply that the second thing has a higher standard. So in this case it should be corrected to “this wouldn’t hold up in a Victorian age court, let alone a modern one.”
What makes you think victorian court has higher standards than modern day ones?
I think they mean the standards were lower in Victorian times.
yes we can make an assumption that that is indeed what they think, but that’s not actually what they said with the sentence “This wouldn’t hold up in modern court let alone Victorian age court”. So perhaps they accidentally used incorrect phrasing, but even so, the logic doesn’t follow - if something doesn’t hold up in modern-day court, that tells us nothing about whether or not it would hold up in Victorian times, when standards of evidence were indeed lower.
He’s saying they wouldn’t understand the DNA claim in the first place.
There was a self-published book that attempted to make a case for Jack the Ripper having been Lewis Carroll, mostly by taking anagrams of the writings of both.
There’s no statute of limitations on murder. In the US. I assume since much of our law descends from British law, it’s much the same there.
He’s safe from execution, at least; the UK abolished it.
Well I hope they lock him up for the rest of his life.
Team “No Parole”
Our “justice” system is too light on 19th-century serial killers.
Our “justice” system is too light on 19th-century serial killers.
There’s statistics to back this up. Go ahead and look at the prison system. Not a single 19th century killer held in custody today.
Looking back at historical incarceration rates there is a clear trend of locking up fewer and fewer 19th century criminals, until the numbers drop off altogether. This suggests a highly orchestrated plan to gradually reduce the population so at to avoid notice, and it worked. Here we are today without a single 19th century criminal incarcerated today. The data doesn’t lie. /s
We’re getting soft. Back in the old days, why, we’d dig up the old bastard and rebury him in non-consecrated ground! That’d teach him.
Remembered, not as a messenger, remembered not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero, not even as Sebastian. Remembered only … as Jack.
God I love that episode. Just a fantastic performance and great writing. There’s so many layers to it, and in particular I just love how ominous and terrifying the vorlons become the more you think about what they’re doing here.
On the other hand, Star Trek made Piglet Jack the Ripper, and the thought of him in a top hat and mutton chops running around the hundred acre woods stabbing hookers is also quite enjoyable.
