Jack the Ripper was Fiction
- Dec 12, 2014
- 2 min read
We all have heard about the serial killer from East London, whose specialty was a butchering street prostitutes. Yes, the bizarre character we are talking about is the Jack the Ripper, one of the most horrible and mysterious psychopaths in the history. But did this person really exist or he was just a fictional character that was made by the press and police investigators? Some experts that have been investigating this case for the decades think Jack the Ripper was a delusion and nothing more.
Real Killer
One of the most detected investigators on this case is Trevor Marriot, a former police detective from Bedfordshire, who discovered that “real” Jack the Ripper was a quite different than we thought. This conclusion is the result of the 11-year long process of investigation and reconstructions.
According to the official reports and press from that time, Jack the Ripper was involved in five murders in London. However, Marriot discovered at least 17 similar murders that had the same characteristic signature of the maniac from British capitals. All those murders dated from 1863 to 1894 and some of them were committed outside the England- in USA and Germany.
Marriot’s theory is based on the assumption that not the Jack was responsible for those murders, but the Carl Feigenbaum, sailor from Germany. It is interesting this person arrested for murdering and butchering his victims and he was eventually executed in New York in 1896. This psycho- sailor was the real murderer, not some fictional character.
Drunkard's Plan
However, ex detective went one-step further in his theory when he explained the most responsible for the buzz about the bizarre serial killer was Thomas Bulling, unsuccessful journalist and a very successful boozer. According to the Marriot, this man was responsible for the hysteria about the Jack the Ripper and the legend about the mad butcher from the streets of London.
Marriot is convinced he has discovered the real truth about this case. According to him, Bulling was broke at that time and he was struggling with debts and alcohol. Bulling needed money and he came up with idea on how to get it. He wrote a fake letter about the serial killer in London, made up the whole background story and sent it to the Scotland Yard. It was in 1888. He was expecting the panic and he was ready to turn it into his advantage. His plan was simple. He was expecting he would be the first journalist that would publish sensational story with all “meaty” details and that this would be enough for his great comeback. And money for drinks, of course.
Marriot said this detail was important in the whole puzzle of the Jack the Ripper case and a first solid clue that legend, that has been active for the last 130 years, was an ordinary fiction. The same situation is with other details in the story. For example, the press of that time stated the victims were brutally slaughtered and that their organs were removed. Marriot explained this is also a lay, because the organs were removed during the routine autopsy.
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