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Kelly Robinson
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Username: Kelly

Post Number: 167
Registered: 2-2004

Posted on Saturday, July 23, 2005 - 4:35 pm:

I was looking through a book at the bookstore called
Based on a True Story(authored by Whalen), that sorts the fact from the fiction in popular movies. The From Hell chapter was rather good. I expected it to debunk the movie theory but say more preposterous things and get a lot of facts wrong, but it was fairly impressive, even calling Ripperology a subdiscipline of criminology without giggling. Flipping to the end I saw why: aside from the graphic novel and the Knight book, the only other sources are Rumbelow and our very own Casebook site! Yay! The truth is being spread!
-Kelly

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