Jack The Ripper — Buried in Rochester?

One suspect in the Jack The Ripper murders in Whitechapel, London, in 1888 was a certain Francis Tumblety. And it turns out that Tumblety is now considered to be one of the leading suspects by many Ripperologists, thanks to a letter uncovered in 1993, but written in 1913, in which Chief Inspector John Littlechild, who knew the Ripper murders in great detail, pointed the finger of suspicion at Tumblety.

A recent book by Stewart Evans and Paul Gainey consider Tumblety to be the most likely suspect. Here are some of the 15 reasons they cite:

• Tumblety fits many requirements of what we now know as the ‘serial killer profile.’ He had a supposed hatred of women and prostitutes (the abortion with the prostitute Dumas, his alleged failed marriage to an ex-prostitute, his collection of uteri, etc.)
• Tumblety was in London at the time and may indeed have been the infamous ‘Batty Street Lodger’ — he therefore may have had fair knowledge of the East End environs.
• Tumblety may have had some anatomical knowledge, as inferred by his collection of wombs, his ‘medical’ practice, and his short-term work with Dr. Lispenard in Rochester.
• There were no more murders after he fleed England on the 24th November, if one counts only the canonical five murders.

Tumblety (also spelled Tumuelty) is buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester, NY.