Always look for a motive, aspiring sleuths are told. And that’s exactly what Tweed Coast author Stephen Senise did when he looked once again into that most infamous crime which occurred in the London slums and gripped the world 130 years ago.
In research for his new book, the journalist and political researcher from Cabarita wasn’t as much interested in trying to unmask the identity of Jack the Ripper, but what drove the notorious serial killer to commit the crimes.
In the recently-published and widely acclaimed first edition of his book: Jewbaiter Jack the Ripper – New Evidence & Theory, he puts forward his bold new theory that the killing spree was a plot to blame Jewish immigrants residing in Whitechapel, a Jewish ghetto.
Hutchinson had told police the man he had seen the murdered young woman Mary Jane Kelly cavorting with before her death was a man ‘of Jewish appearance’.
Mr Senise says that early on during the investigation, ‘police did countenance that someone was trying to frame the Jewish community’, especially given the hotbed of anti-Semitism that was East London at the time, exacerbated by woeful economic conditions and a rapid influx of Jewish refugees into the area.
Read the article by Luis Feliu in the EchoNet Daily.