Jack the Ripper was a German sailor, detective claims

[The Straight Story]

Jack the Ripper was a German sailor, detective claims

Jack the Ripper was probably a German merchant seaman named Carl Feigenbaum. That’s the theory proposed by English former murder squad detective Trevor Marriott. He spoke to The Local.
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But according to English former homicide detective Trevor Marriott, Jack the Ripper was most likely a German merchant sailor from Karlsruhe named Carl Feigenbaum.

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Marriott says he has used modern policing methods to overturn many of the old assumptions about the Ripper murders and gathered evidence that points to Feigenbaum, who was eventually convicted and executed for murdering Juliana Hoffmann in New York in 1894.

“There is a case for suggesting he might have been the first trans-continental serial killer,” Marriott says.
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Around the same time, Marriott learned that what he calls a “Ripper-like murder” – of a woman named Juliana Hoffmann – had taken place in New York in 1894, six years after the five women in Whitechapel. The man convicted for that murder was German Carl Feigenbaum, who was also using aliases including Anton Zahn and Carl Zahn.

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20110407-34257.html

[Adsos Letter]

1. K&R! Interesting read; I may order the book.

Thanks, TSS!

[exboyfil]

2. I wonder about Feigenbaum's lawyer

He broke his oath when he pointed the finger at Feigenbaum as the murderer of other women. That said what does happen to the files of old law practices? Any chance his files are still sitting someplace and does priviledge still attach this many years later. Did Feigenbaum have a heir (and later heirs) who could waive priviledge? Interesting questions.