Braintree: Boffin claims Jack the Ripper was from Coggeshall (From Gazette)
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Braintree: Boffin claims Jack the Ripper was from Coggeshall
1:00pm Saturday 10th November 2012 in News
Braintree: Boffin claims Jack the Ripper was from Coggeshall
The infamous White Chapel murderer, Jack the Ripper, has been identified as a Coggeshall surgeon.
A new report compiled by Uruguayan professor, Eduardo Cuitino, claims the serial killer was actually Stephen Appleford, who was driven to killing after being ostracised by the Coggeshall villagers because they were not as clever as him.
Mr Cuitino, a professor of statistics at the University ORT of Montevideo, Uruguay, has never visited England.
But claims he reached his conclusions after two years of pain staking research and mathematical calculations.
The professor claims Mr Appleford, who was 36 at the time of the murders in 1888, was “the appropriate age” of a psychopath and had an IQ well above average.
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Comments(6)
PROOFREADER
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4:12pm Sat 10 Nov 12
Sdapeze
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9:52am Sun 11 Nov 12
Boris
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12:27am Mon 12 Nov 12
PROOFREADER wrote:You missed a worse mistake in the same story: "pain staking".
Whitechapel not White Chapel! A little bit of knowledge about London would not go amiss.
Boris
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12:57am Mon 12 Nov 12
Sdapeze wrote:Jack the Ripper is a tourist attraction. Not to my taste or yours, but long after his crimes he helps to bring in visitors to the UK. This theory that he originated from Coggeshall could help to boost tourism to our part of the world. So don't knock Professor Cuitiño (correct spelling).
Said boffin needs to concentrate on more pressing matters.
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A detailed article in a Montevideo newspaper sets out the professor's reasoning. It seems a plausible theory.
http://www.elpais.co
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70966/ciudades/matem
atico-uruguayo-revel
a-la-identidad-de-ja
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So, well done the professor for putting Coggeshall on the map.
jut1972
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8:47pm Tue 13 Nov 12
Another equally unlikely suspect is Sir William Gull who is buried in Thorpe-le-soken church. He is the one the queens doctor theory is based upon.
Joker50 says...
1:42pm Sat 10 Nov 12