Jack the Ripper: Prime Suspect (TV Movie 2011) Poster

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Just Plain Awful
de32067 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This just another one of those "documentaries" whose title catches your eye, but as you go through it, the "investigation" leads down one blind alley then another.

DNA test of the shawl purportedly belonging to one of the victims. It's so valuable, it's kept at a secret location, which turns out to be what appears to be an empty house with paint peeling off the walls. How do we know it's a victims shawl? Because the guy that owns it says so. Is there any usable DNA? No.

Handwriting analysis of a Ripper letter and the suspects. Are they a match? Inconclusive.

DNA analysis from the back of a stamp that "will blow the investigation wide open". It's female DNA

But there's PROOF!!! If you add a couple of things, the suspect matches an FBI profile. But so do thousands of males in the U.K. in the 19th century.

Don't bother. Seriously.
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Another Suspect
Michael_Elliott9 October 2016
Jack the Ripper: Prime Suspect (2011)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Jack the Ripper, perhaps the greatest unsolved mystery out there, is once again the subject of a documentary but this one here lays all its chips onto the table of Frederick Bailey Deeming and try to use current DNA technology to link him to the murders.

You know, if you've seen enough of these documentaries like I have then you know that it seems all of them try to come up with a new suspect. They want to pull the rug out from under you in hopes of being the one to break the case but I'm sure most would agree that it's going to remain a mystery unless time travel is ever created and we can actually go back and catch the killer during the crimes. With that being said, if you are a fan of the case then you'll likely want to watch this one as well. The interviews are good and there are some crime scene photos that I haven't seen before.
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