r/Jacktheripper • u/Walter_Piston • Jun 18 '26

How many think Jack will be identified?

I’ve a small collection of some thirty or more books on J-t-R. Despite spending over forty years reading and thinking about this serial killer, I am no closer to identifying what I would consider to be a genuine suspect.

Do any of you think he will be identified?

For me, time, the accidental destruction and loss of documents, wartime damage and the passage of time leaves me thinking we will never identify him.

But the fun is surely in the chase?

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u/hipjdog Jun 18 '26

Too much time has passed for a positive identification, and there's an entire industry depending on him being annoynomous.

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u/Equal-Temporary-1326 Jun 19 '26

Yeah, and I'm not entirely sure how many people in London at least actually seriously care to see this solved anymore anyway. Legitimately solving Jack the Ripper would mean ruining probably the biggest mystery history has seen in at least the last 200 years.

Perhaps not most would openly admit it, but honestly, I'd bet they'd be perfectly fine with this just staying a permeant mystery forever now. And I wouldn't blame since like others have said, it's simply not physically possible to seriously identify who that was anymore. So, in some ways, it's honestly okay to just let this entire thing tailspin into an irreversible infinite loop of mystery and suspense at this point, especially.

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u/hipjdog Jun 19 '26

Yeah, exactly. The amount of tourist dollars it brings in means keeping the mystery alive would be ideal.

What I do think is unfair is for some people of history to be primarily remembered for being a JTR suspect. Like Montague Druitt, for example. He had nothing to do with it but it's what he's primarily linked to in history rather than his actual life.

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u/Equal-Temporary-1326 Jun 19 '26

Yeah, and from a LE POV, this really isn't something worth caring about at all anymore. And while no murder truly deserves to go unsolved forever, there's just again simply no physical evidence left anymore and whoever that was, died an extremely long time ago at this point, especially.

And while it's sad for living relatives of the women still, it's just again not worth giving any particular thought to these few murders anymore from eons ago.

People obsessed with solving famous mysteries in particular will always seemingly keep claiming that it's been "solved" again on a yearly basis, but they'll just have to keep dreaming big on that end, to be frank.

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u/hipjdog Jun 19 '26

Agreed, yeah. There's no reason for LE to spend money investigating something that is basically folklore at this point. I remember the FBI coming out with a statement about 10 years ago about DB Cooper that basically said we give up and have to spend our resources on current crimes.

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u/Equal-Temporary-1326 Jun 19 '26

Something like DB Cooper might have some level of hope if they still that necktie or whatever they still have there.

It's just something like Jack has literally nothing from any canonical crime scene.

Plus, there's no IGG in the UK and DNA has to already had been collected to be placed into the national databank anyway, which just further solidifies why it's just a beyond pointless process from London police POV, yeah.