Reddit reviews Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper Case Closed

Patricia Cornwell wrote a book purporting to solve the question of Jack the Ripper's identity. It's full of logical fallacies and circular logic and demonstrates nothing of value. I read it years ago and I'm still angry about the time I wasted reading it.

I found patricia Cornwell's case for Walter Sickert pretty compelling Link to book if you want to check it out. Things like details in his paintings that a person uninvolved shouldn't have known as well as paper matching to the letters from jack the ripper to police are interesting ideas as well as her creating a physiological profile that fit him and the ripper.

But there are a few holes in her case as she is piecing together a 100+ year old crime. Nothing can every be conclusively proved or disproved so any real accusation is basically a highly educated guess.

At this point in history the only concrete thing to say is that nobody will know conclusively who Jack the Ripper was.

I think so!

https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Killer-Jack-Ripper-Closed/dp/0425192733

I think I read this about the time it came out, so it has been a long time, and I certainly have Ramnesia about many of the details.

If I had the kindle version I would search for the mention of fingerprints, but I don't....

Here is a link. She did one more as well, maybe two. She got obsessed with the case. Spent millions of dollars buying stuff related to the case and the guy she thinks was the killer.