The Life And Crimes Of George Chapman - "Jack The Ripper At Last."

I dont know if hes jack but i do know that this presentation was excellent!

Ah yes, I remember reading about George Chapman as a Jack the Ripper suspect elsewhere, and how there was some doubt about this, as he killed his wife by poisoning her, while Jack the ripper used a knife, and it seemed unusual for the killer to change their modus operandi.

I wonder what ever became of Chapman's unwanted son William who he callously sent to the workhouse?

Fantastic presentation. Have heard Chapman’s story from several sources but this by far the best with so many details that I have not heard anywhere else even about his last day.

Outstanding in depth research! Bravo, Thanks for making this story so entertaining! 🏅

Just done listening to this video. Wish I had the words to express how much I enjoyed the quality of the video the audio and all the details. Thank you

Very interesting documentary. It is excellently presented. I do not think Chapman was Jack the Ripper, but I do believe he received the punishment he deserved. I can’t imagine the pain those women endured at his cruel hand. Hello from South Carolina.

This was very interesting. You have a good narration style. Would love to hear more stories like these.

That was splendid! Thank you for this long, detailed, and beautifully narrated video.

He must have been a charming man at any rate, he had no problem acquiring new victims. It seems amazing no rumours about him started to spread once his 3rd wife started getting ill with the same symptoms.

Thanks Richard, my watch this evening

It’s clear that most people had the wrong idea of the personality and type of person Jack was. The Pall Mall Gazette was exactly right about George being able to watch three of his wives slowly tortured to death. Not only to watch, to listen to them beg and cry and moan and scream in the throes of pain, to hear them vomiting and losing their bodily functions, to smell that and the smells of sickness and body odors, sweating in excruciating pain. I don’t know if there’s enough to persuade me to believe he’s the Whitechapel killer but, the poisonings certainly do more to rule him in than out. It’s not unheard of for murderers to change their modus operandi or type of victims, especially in the same gender. I don’t think Jack had anything against prostitutes, specifically. They were simply easier prey without arousing as much alarm or backlash as if he’d been killing women of another class. The police made that mistake, before - in the Yorkshire Ripper murders and the Green River killer Gary Ridgway and others. They were victims of opportunity and oppression that made them vulnerable. Which means murder victims who were not prostitutes should not be ruled out as being committed by The Whitechapel killer. He likely had victims who weren’t prostitutes at all. Are there any who were doubted to be prostitutes? Or murders that were ruled out as being committed by him due to class? Murders that might fit? As for his personality, behavior and sanity Jack was living as sanely on the outside as the rest. He was no madman frothing at the mouth - not unless he was in the frenzy of the attack. Look at Ted Bundy, for instance. Or Dennis Radar aKa BTK. Ted Bundy took women one at a time on most occasions, but he also had periods of frenzied murder sprees, as when he kidnapped two victims from Sammamish Lake in one day, back to back. The attacks on the women of a sorority house in Florida - brutal beatings, unspeakable acts of abuse on their bodies, rape, strangulation - all of it in one night, room to room without waking anyone before he attacked them. The Yorkshire Ripper, BTK Dennis Radar and the Green River Killer Gary Ridgway were all married. Bundy had a long term relationship with a woman. He married another, during his trial. He’d known her before his arrest. I definitely believe The Whitechapel killer was married, if even separated. It’s likely he was still with her. He had a job, as well and no one thought he was the killer. If anyone has suspected anything it would be his wife or possibly children if they were adults. I doubt they did. If anyone thought he was off, they wouldn’t have suspected how off. Jack looked and acted just like everyone else. Well enough to fit in and pass without suspicion, anyway.

The back and forth between Aberline and the editor felt like an early 20th century version of a youtube comment section.

Absolutely excellent work, Richard. Thank you for all your hard work.

Fantastic , will watch tonight 👍

Absolutely superb research, editing and narration! Interesting theories too. Well done! Thank you! 💜

Excellent feature-length documentary! I think it might be be useful to clarify Klosowski's "surgical" background, as mentioned early in the video. It's important to know that he was only ever a "feldsher" or "barber-surgeon" - indeed, the so-called "Senior Surgeon" to whom he was apprenticed, Moshko Rappaport, was a feldsher, and Rappaport's son would follow in his father's footsteps. Likewise, when Klosowski moved to Warsaw, he enrolled on a relatively brief feldsher training course, rather than a much longer, more thorough and more expensive medical/surgical degree. Feldshers spent most of their time giving customers shaves and haircuts, but they'd also perform minor medical procedures - lancing boils, stitching/dressing wounds, applying leeches and other folk cures - so they were hardly "surgeons" in the British sense. Trouble is, there being no real equivalent for "feldsher" in the English of the time, the word "surgeon" was used when Klosowski's papers were translated for his trial. (It was these translations which also found their way into HL Adam's important book on the Chapman case.) Unfortunately, this inaccurate rendering of "feldsher" as "surgeon" would fuel speculation that Klosowski was Jack the Ripper, given the alleged "surgical knowledge/skill" seen by some in the Whitechapel murders. Whether the Ripper actually had any surgical skill is a whole other debate, but it's safe to say that Klosowski's training as a feldsher would have given him no more experience/skill at removing internal organs than a modern-day nurse or paramedic.

I love your longer videos, thanks so much

Brilliantly researched video. Thank you!

This presentation, narriation and 'Strand' artwork animation are beyond words. Thank you ! Please do more