Jack the Ripper Identified as Poet Francis Thompson

The famous poet Francis Thompson was the even more infamous Jack the Ripper.  Twenty years of research has led Richard Patterson to this conclusion.  Patterson sites some of the evidence that identifies Thompson as the Ripper:

Thompson…

… had surgical experience and hinted at his double life in some of his poems…

…kept a dissecting knife under his coat…

…was taught a rare surgical procedure that was found in the mutilations of more than one of the Ripper victims…

For the full story check out The New York Daily News: Jack the Ripper’s Real Identity.