Montague John Druitt: is said to be the number one suspect in the Ripper, but there is almost no evidence pointing to him. The only things that people have on him are that he looked similar to what witnesses said the Ripper looked like and he was age was apporiate. Other then that, there is no evidence. In December of 1888 he committed suicide so no one will ever know the truth.
Joseph Barnett: Loved Mary Kelly and was living with her until a few weeks before her death. Theories suggest that he wasnted to support her and when he lost his fishing license and Mary had to go out onto the streets and sell herself he became angry. He killed other prositutes in order to scare Mary into not doing it anymore. They argued the night of her murder and a window was broken in the quarrel and that is how the door was locked when the police arrived…he already knew how to lock it.
James Maybrick: He is only suspected because a diary surfaced many years later and he is supposed to be written by him. The author of the diary never signed it, but the details point to Maybrick. The diary is believed to be a hoax so he is not a true suspect and he was killed (or died) several months after the killings.
Thomas Neill Cream: Lived in Canada and the U.S. before going to London for work. He was convicted of poisoning several women and was sentenced to be hanged. At the hanging, right before he died he was said to have uttered the words “I am Jack…” Obviously, many people considered this to a be a confession. It is a little shady though because he was in prison from 1881 to 1891 and it is believed that he had a body double who murdered the five while he was in prison in Ill.
Michael Ostrog: He was mentioned for the first time in the Macnaghten Memoranda which said: “Michael Ostrog, a mad Russian doctor and a convict and unquestionably a homicidal maniac. This man was said to have been habitually cruel to women, and for a long time was known to have carried about with him surgical knives and other instruments; his antecedents were of the very worst and his whereabouts at the time of the Whitechapel murders could never be satisfactorily accounted for. He is still alive.” Many people don’t fully agree with this because of his petty criminal record.
James Kenneth Stephen: He was first suspected in 1972 in a biography about Prince Albert. He is a suspect because he is a known misogynist and maniac and had connections with Prince Albert. There is no record of violence from him and no connections to the East End.
Rosyln D’Onston Stephenson: First suspected in 1889 and again later in 1987. He was known to have been very interested in the Ripper murders and wrote many articles about the case. He also dabbled in black magic and lived in the East End. He did not have a history of violence with women.
Prince Albert Victor: One of the most famous suspects in the murders and is in three of the theories. According to Stowell, Eddy contracted syphilis and it drove him insane and he commited the murders. His family apparently knew about the murders and took him away after the double murder but he escaped and killed Mary Kelly as his last. He was again sent away and died of “softing of the brain”. Although records say that Eddy was not even in London during the time of the murders. He is also cause of debate in two other conspiracy theories.
