truth on hold Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 (edited) The "From Hell" letter[1] (or the "Lusk letter"[2]) is a letter posted in 1888 by a person who claimed to be the serial killer known asJack the Ripper. Postmarked on 15 October 1888, the letter was received by George Lusk, then head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, the following day. The text of the letter reads:[1] From hell Mr Lusk Sor I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother pirce I fried and ate it was very nise I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer. signed Catch me when you Can Mishter Lusk. [sic] The original letter, as well as the kidney that accompanied it, have subsequently been lost along with other items that were originally contained within the Ripper police files. A forensic handwriting analyst working for the History Channel documentary series MysteryQuest argued that the letter was genuine, based on the characteristics of the handwriting, particularly the "invasive loop" letter "y"s. Based on linguistic clues (including the use of the particular spelling of the word "prasarved" (preserved), the examiner felt that the letter showed strong evidence that the writer was Irish or of Irish extraction, linking the letter to Ripper suspect Francis Tumblety. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_letter Francis Tumblety (c.1833 – 28 May 1903) was an Irish-born American mountebank and medical quack who earned a small fortune posing as an "Indian Herb" doctor throughout the United States and Canada.[1] He was an eccentric self-promoter and was often in trouble with the law. He has been put forward as a suspect in the notorious and still unsolved Jack the Ripper murder spree inWhitechapel, London, in autumn 1888. According to the 1850 United States census, Tumblety was born in Ireland.[2] His parents, James and Margaret Tumuelty (so spelled on their tombstone),[2] along with his 10 brothers and sisters, emigrated to Rochester, New York, a few years after his birth.[3] By the age of 17 he was selling books, which were possibly pornographic, along the Erie Canal between Rochester and Buffalo. He then found brief employment as a cleaner at the Lispenard Hospital, in Rochester, which had a dubious medical reputation for performing gynaecological operations and "cures" for sexual temptation. He was buried in the family plot in Rochester's Holy Sepulchre Cemetery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tumblety Edited February 15, 2015 by JTSP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guffalo Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Just another "Local boy does good" fluff piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 after reading all that it seems he was just a megalomaniac; "Megalomania is a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem. Historically it was used as a name for narcissistic personality disorder " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalomania Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth on hold Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 Just another "Local boy does good" fluff piece. errrr like OJ and McVeigh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Just another "Local boy does good" fluff piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed83HOF Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 A forensic handwriting analyst working for the History Channel documentary series It was this guy huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarkLessWagMore Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 errrr like OJ and McVeigh? OJ was born in Rochester? I had no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 The "From Hell" letter[1] (or the "Lusk letter"[2]) is a letter posted in 1888 by a person who claimed to be the serial killer known asJack the Ripper. Postmarked on 15 October 1888, the letter was received by George Lusk, then head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, the following day. The text of the letter reads:[1] From hell Mr Lusk Sor I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother pirce I fried and ate it was very nise I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer. signed Catch me when you Can Mishter Lusk. [sic] The original letter, as well as the kidney that accompanied it, have subsequently been lost along with other items that were originally contained within the Ripper police files. A forensic handwriting analyst working for the History Channel documentary series MysteryQuest argued that the letter was genuine, based on the characteristics of the handwriting, particularly the "invasive loop" letter "y"s. Based on linguistic clues (including the use of the particular spelling of the word "prasarved" (preserved), the examiner felt that the letter showed strong evidence that the writer was Irish or of Irish extraction, linking the letter to Ripper suspect Francis Tumblety. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_letter Francis Tumblety (c.1833 – 28 May 1903) was an Irish-born American mountebank and medical quack who earned a small fortune posing as an "Indian Herb" doctor throughout the United States and Canada.[1] He was an eccentric self-promoter and was often in trouble with the law. He has been put forward as a suspect in the notorious and still unsolved Jack the Ripper murder spree inWhitechapel, London, in autumn 1888. According to the 1850 United States census, Tumblety was born in Ireland.[2] His parents, James and Margaret Tumuelty (so spelled on their tombstone),[2] along with his 10 brothers and sisters, emigrated to Rochester, New York, a few years after his birth.[3] By the age of 17 he was selling books, which were possibly pornographic, along the Erie Canal between Rochester and Buffalo. He then found brief employment as a cleaner at the Lispenard Hospital, in Rochester, which had a dubious medical reputation for performing gynaecological operations and "cures" for sexual temptation. He was buried in the family plot in Rochester's Holy Sepulchre Cemetery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tumblety Doe's S King ever write his own stuff? He copied that note near word for word in black house for "his" killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 A forensic handwriting analyst working for the History Channel In an unrelated post, !@#$ the history channel I'm looking for a job now so I spend a lot of time at home. Its presidents day so I turned on History hoping to learn about ANY president. Nope a Swamp People marathon Turned on Comedy Central to watch Drunk History... at least that was somewhat educational Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 OJ was born in Rochester? I had no idea. Any chance JTSP gets to take a shot at Buffalo, he'll take. His trolling is nothing if not consistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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