The Elephant Man

The graphic novel From Hell By Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell connects a lot of legendary people from the time to the Whitechapel murders. The usual suspects like Walter Sickert and the Royal Conspiracy were named just as Oscar Wilde. He claimed to know the identity of the ripper although he never gave any clear evidence.
The most special one named to have something to do with the Jack the Ripper case was Joseph Merrick better known as: the Elephant Man.
On casebook.org is an extract from: Jack the Ripper: A suspects guide. In there is a pece on Merrick and why he could be the Ripper.
At the time he was in the hospital, thus being able to get (surgical) knives, he hated women because he couldn’t get laid due to his crooked exterior. And he couldn’t be recognised by passers by because of his hood he had to wear.
Naturally he couldn’t be the ripper, he could hardly walk due to his disfigurement. He was prejudiced, disrespected and bullied and couldn’t get a job because of his physique. The only people who liked him were the circus audience where he could get a job as a freak.
Apparently people like to think of the Ripper as somebody or a group they don’t approve of, like immigrants and jews which flooded the London streets in the 19th century.
The Elephant Man is obviously seen as a monster due to his horrendous appearance and must therefore been disposed of. He didn’t fit in the society and only got saved from a miserable life in the slums of the arena by Sir Frederick Treves whom was very interested in him because of the medical side of the story.

He died on April 11, 1890 in the London Hospital in, and you won't beleive this, IN Whitechap el! This could of course be a case for why the killing stopped after that time. If it wasn't for the fact that it did so two years earlier