Was Lizzie, Jack the Ripper?
A Birmingham Author is causing a bit of a stir among Historians and Jack the Ripper experts, by claiming that the Ripper was not a man, but a woman. The author, John Morris (former solicitor) claims that there is no doubt that the Ripper was a woman, and even goes on to name Lizzie Williams, the wife of Royal Physician Sir John Williams.
John’s new book, Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman, was written with his late father, and is the result of many hours work pouring through thousands of medical and legal documents.
According to John:
“The case for a woman murderer is overwhelming. But unfortunately it does not sit well in some quarters where such a theory flies in the face of long-held beliefs.
“There’s absolutely no doubt that the Ripper was a woman. But because everyone believes that the murderer was a man, all the evidence that points to a woman has always been ignored.”
“There are numerous clues scattered throughout the crimes which, taken individually, may mean little, but when grouped together a strong case for a woman murderer begins to emerge.”
The five Ripper victims were all women who had their wombs removed, and were East-End prostitutes.
Facts covered by the author include:
- No sexual assaults took place
- Small buttons from a lady’s boot were covered in blood near one of the victims
- Personal items laid out at the feet of a victim in a typically feminine manner
- Remnants of a woman’s clothes not worn by the victim found in Mary Kelly’s fireplace
Mary Kelly (one of the victims) was having an affair with Sir John (Lizzie’s husband), who ran abortion clinics in Whitechapel.
The killings stopped when Lizzie suffered a nervous breakdown and died of cancer in 1912. She was never questioned by police.
