Ripper Walk Transcripts Continued...

Aaron Kosminski was described by the police as a low class, Polish Jew. He was thought to have come over to England to work as a butcher, however Kosminski secretly fancied himself a surgeon and would frequently perform back alley abortions. Eventually, after a few botched operations, people began to realise that he didn’t really know what he was doing and as word got about, women stopped going to see him. At first, Aaron started to become violent and then soon after, his violence grew towards women leading the police to lock him up in a mental institution. He later escaped in august 1888 and was later caught in November 1888 just after Mary Kelly’s death and locked up again where he died 2 years later.His escape only lasted from August to November, but these three months coincided with the exact duration of the ripper murders, which would explain the reason for all the murders occurring in the given space of time and also why they suddenly stopped after Mary Kelly.
Kosminski is still police favourite even today because he fits the physiological profile the best; in being a butcher posing as a surgeon he fits the Alter-Ego description. He also suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and knew three out of five of the victims. He also had experience with using knives through his days working as a London butcher and a general knowledge of the female anatomy from posing as a back alley abortion surgeon.However, Kosminski does not fit the physical profiling according to the general consensus of witness accounts describing the man seen hanging around on the nights of the murders. Physical Profile.

· Dark hair
· Sallow skin
· Tall
· Middle to upper class Manner and style of dress
· Large moustache

If the Physical profiling is correct, then it is perhaps more fitting to look at suspect Montague Druitt. Montague Druitt had a respectable job working as a school teacher at an acclaimed and expensive boy’s school in London. He was one of the police’s favourite suspects in 1888 and only caused suspicion to arise in the wake of coincidental suicide just after Mary Kelly’s death. After the police pulled Druitt’s body from the Thames, Detectives began to investigate his lodgings and found heavily bloodstained clothes. They also found letters written by Druitt stating that he was ‘going the same way as mother...’ Montague had a history of mental illness running in his family and mother happened was housed in a mental asylum at the time. When Druitt first moved to the east end he at first began to live over his cousin’s (Dr Lionel Druitt’s) surgery.