The Domestic Goblin attempts to read They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper written by Bruce Robinson which consists of 764 pages...
Started reading on:
Friday 3rd July 2026 at 21:30.
Notes DG made along the way
The problem for the Victorians was that they equated 'evil' with 'insane'.
Jack the Ripper was a killer in a killer state, and in my view more likely to have been an Englishman than a citizen of any other nation.
Concealing the Ripper was not a Masonic conspiracy, but a conspiracy of Her Majesty's executive, which almost without exception were Freemasons.
It was a conspiracy of the System. The man [...] was 'in house' and unquestionably revelling in the security he'd spun about himself. The secrecy of Freemasonry.
Evolving homicidal signature.
He killed mother-angels who proved herself lower than the filthiest whore and cut out their 'cunts' as a trophy.
James Maybrick.
"The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing."
The Victorian authorities knew perfectly well that they were looking for a Freemason (or rather, that they were protecting one). But they didn't yet know who he was.
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(Information from the internet:
In the early morning of 30 September 1888, cigarette maker and salesman Joseph Lawende saw a man talking to a woman believed to be Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
Lawende and two companions spotted the couple standing at the entrance of Church Passage, which led directly into Mitre Square, at approximately 1:35 a.m.—just ten minutes before Eddowes' mutilated body was discovered in the square. Because of the timing, police officials considered Lawende the most crucial witness who potentially looked upon the face of the Whitechapel murderer.
Despite providing a detailed description, Lawende consistently maintained both during his police interviews and at the official coroner's inquest that he would not be able to identify the man again if he saw him. He noted that the street lighting was poor, the encounter was brief, and he paid little attention at the time because the couple did not appear to be acting suspiciously).
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We shall never know what Joseph Lawende saw.
The Commissioner of Police wasn't interested in detecting but in the strategy of avoidance. He was precisely the reason Jack the Ripper was never caught.
It became apparent that I wasn't investigating a mystery but why it was a mystery.
The Met were no longer a police force, but as a result of the efforts of certain senior officers had actually become a force for non-detection.
Grape skins and stones.
It was a common prejudice amongst the ruling classes that only Jonnie Foreigner carried a dastardly knife.
Matthew Packer, the Berner Street fruit seller.
Mr Durward Lely's tour dates and destinations coincided with letters.
Spurs on the S.
George Street and Conduit Street.
Tall and dark [...] handsome Gentleman.
Michael Maybrick and Toynbee Hall.
Moab. Midian.
Smoker the dog detective.
Maggots don't lie. They leave that to the Victorian police.
In such a crime the victim is the only witness.
The Canonical Five. Mary Jane Kelly was the only one murdered indoors.
Richard Whittington.
Transvestism is featured in the City letters, just as the joys of murder are in the Mets.
"If the police have a series of five homicides that demonstrate the same MO, we advise looking most closely at the earliest one, for it will most likely have 'gone down' closest to where the killer lived or worked or hung out...often that first crime is not thoroughly planned, but succeeding ones will display greater forethought."
(Robert Ressler - Psychological Profiler of violent offenders).
The fiends apparent termination of his homicidal activity seemed inexplicable. Why had he stopped? The general consensus to this day is that either:
- He was incarcerated in a nut-house or possibly in prison for some other crime
- He was a short-arsed seafarer currently in foreign parts or
- He was dead
Or maybe the Ripper hadn't stopped killing at all. What had stopped was the police associating him with his crimes.
Meanwhile a conveniently screwed-up non-entity called Montague J. Druitt stuffed his pockets with rocks and jumped into the river. They pulled his corpse out of the Thames on the last day of December 1888 and were happy to conclude that this innocent stiff was Jack the Ripper.
"No Brother may be admitted to a Lodge unless he is personally known to, and vouched for by one of the brethren present, or unless he be well vouched for after due examination". You didn't just waddle in.
24th October.
Carlo Fara.
The Cahills. 324 Heaton Road, Manningham.
Little Johnnie Gill, aged 7.
The Floating Ripper.
The Homicidal Milkman.
Horus.
Strictures of Ezekiel.
William Barritt.
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Finished reading on:
Saturday 18 July 2026
12:56
