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Diana
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Username: Diana
Post Number: 271
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 10:44 am: | 
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I just stumbled yesterday on the history of Jesse Pomeroy, a serial killer just as brutal if not more so than Jack. He was imprisoned at age 14 in the 1870's for the murder of two younger children. Jack at least waited till his victims were dead to mutilate them. Jesse didn't. Check out http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/pomeroy/3.html?sect=6 |
Michael Raney
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Username: Mikey559
Post Number: 360
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 3:06 pm: |
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Diana,
Very interesting. I had heard of Jesse Pomeroy before when attending a training on Juvenile Killers, but not in near so much detail. I recommend that everyone check out the link.
Mikey |
James Jeffrey Paul
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| | Posted on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 12:00 pm: |
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Have you read the estimable Harold Schechter's book on Jesse Pomeroy, FIEND?
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James Jeffrey Paul
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| | Posted on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 12:00 pm: |
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Have you read the estimable Harold Schechter's book on Jesse Pomeroy, FIEND?
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Diana
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Username: Diana
Post Number: 294
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 8:58 pm: |
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The reason I started this thread was the Pomeroy case opened my eyes to the possibility that Jack could indeed could have been a teenager. If he happened to be large enough, it would have been physically possible. |
Stephen Leece
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| | Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 10:37 am: |
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Diana
The problem with your suggestion of a teenage Jack is there's no comparison between Pomeroy and Jack. If we look at major cases of children who have killed, Pomeroy, Truscott, Bell and Thompson and Venables they all murder people who are younger than them. That comparison kind of rules out the notion of a 14 year old, for example mutilating what were, lets be honest, elderly hags in Whitechapel. In the cases of Pomeroy and Truscott there was a sexual element to the crimes; in the Ripper's case, the victims were not even sexually assaulted. This suggests, to me at any rate, it is highly unlikely Jack was a young man, but more likely to be middle-aged. |
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