Eight days later, its the one when theres the shortest timescale between the two murders, between Paul Nichols and Annie Chapman. Anyway, in the 1861 census, Charles actually was about 11. Comment * document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a0ee21965acaf982db74eef999815b94" );document.getElementById("a66ed1ad9c").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Enjoy the Podcast? So theres five official murders. And but I looked into the case of this person. So the meet and greet between the two is odd. I am 75 now and have followed this case since a boy, when my old man showed me an article in the then New of the World or the like! The common name was Cross cuz he gave his name in a in a court, in an inquest where obviously it was noisy. Cause I believe, I cant remember off the top of my head. So he wouldve had a, a weapon, a murder weapon. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. The, the Lechmere case is very much argued over. And after about 500 yards, Robert Paul goes off to side turning where he works. Sunday evening, late on Sunday evening, the police issued a big statement debunking all these misleading stories about blood -that was in different newspapers -about trails of blood being here and there -about someone doing this, someone doing that. Yeah. The killer, who came to be known as "Jack the Ripper," was never caught. of all the streets in all the East End, thats where the next murder happened eight days later. They, they rebrand it and call it different things, but yeah. Edward: Thats okay. When this stepfather who died a few years later, hed been dead 18 years by the time of the Jack the Ripper murders. Very bitterly argued over. And then Paul didnt come forward himself. Mainstream awareness of Lechmere grew in 2014 when journalist Christer Holmgren and criminologist Gareth Norris explored the case against him in the 2014 And youll think theres quite a lot of wine and if you spread over the floor, but theres not a lot when its on a pavement. So lots of goods was brought down from the rest of the country to London to, for the London shops and the economy in London. My guest, Edwa. I commented on the matter some little time ago in a conversation with Jerry D, saying that it was odd that Cleary only got it almost right. Then its only changed. And the interesting thing is Thomas Cross was about 10 years younger than his mother. The East Ends full of mythology and stories and Jack the Rippers from the East End. And, and lots of East End families have family oral traditions about have you heard of the Krays, the gang gangland family called the Krays? Also Charles Lechmere lived in Pinchin Street at the time of the 1861 census, when it was called Thomas Street and he was notoriously named as Charles Cross by his then living step father Thomas Cross. Now, the next murder, Annie Chapman, was about a hundred yards from where Paul works. But to come back to other aspects of the the blood evidence, the blood evidence, in my opinion, this is one of these moments of controversy, the fact that they didnt when subsequent witnesses came, such as Dr. Llywelyn and the policeman, they, so they saw more, more blood. Edward: Some people think that you wouldnt kill on your way to work, for example, but you can point to ones you did. Michael Connor: 'Did The Ripper Work For Pickfords?'. Totaled off down the street. Yeah, well, the Jack the Ripper case, its in 1888 in Victorian London in the east end of London, which is was a sort of poor district. The other one, not the Missing Link, the Missing Evidence, Erik: Jack The Ripper: the New Evidence. And so thats probably why you havent heard them. This sort of thing happens nowadays as well. Hello all , Charles Allen Lechmere , Finally Vindicated , Proof . On, on the eighth, it was only sorry, eight days later. And at this date most likely never be known. So they clearly didnt get blood on them because there wasnt that much coming out. Backchurch Lane had low numbers to the south end, high numbers to the northern end. But theres also a presumption that most of em are actually strangled first, which either if they werent strangled to death, they wouldve been strangled to virtually death, where their heart beats was so feeble that there was hardly any, gonna be hardly any arterial flow coming out when, when, when any arteries, main arteries are cut, and the blood wouldve virtually just oozed out rather than shot out in a, in, in this, an uncontrollable way because there is no, the, the murder scene, theres only real evidence of arterial flow in the murder of Annie Chapman cause theres a splash on a wall on her fence next to where she was, which must have come out certainly out of her neck when the, when the main arteries were cut in her neck, but most of them not. Then youve got into the next year, 1889. Michael Connor: 'Lechmere: The Man In Bucks Row'. This was like at one oclock in the morning. And they, theyre always in the, obviously about the, the ins and outs of that case. Individual, and, you know, many multiple people per a few pence per night is where you would stay if you had like an itinerant laborer or something like that, or you know, basically a doss or even a beggar who manage to beg a few pence. And a bit, the first part was found near this village , but other bits were found elsewhere all, all over London actually. Edward: Oh, thats right. 19 years. One of his daughters was brought up by his mother. [6] and by Michael Connor in four issues of The Ripperologist between 2006 and 2008. So it was quite a poor crime infested area. Erik: Interesting. But anyway, Lechmeres mother lived about 200 yards from where Liz Stride was killed. In all the other cases, someone finds a body, they go off and find a policeman straight away or something like that. In British gangster terms, the Krays are the biggest name. Didnt come forward as a So the theory is that someone called Louis Diemschutz was coming into the yard where the body was found and disturbed the, the, the culprit who then who was unfulfilled. And the other thing is with serial crime, the police are quite poor. And then the next interesting thing, Is that part of Catherine Eddowes apron was found in a doorway along with some graffiti. And I think he did the, the neck wounds as a sort of final coupe de grace when he heard the footsteps, which happened to be Paul coming up behind him. Have you ever heard of this? And he said, look, yeah, thats the guy. Its quite catchy, isnt it, Jack The Ripper to sell papers. Erik: I think here in the states that it might be similar to the JFK assassination case. There was one: Alice McKenzie. Or such a long slog with Torso over shoulder. In, in the early hours of the morning and, well, it wouldve been a work day, so itd been walking past her on his way to work. They dont believe that the identity of Jack the Ripper has been discovered yet. And the next witness to testify at the inquest was Lechmere. Still in the overall area of the East end, but slightly off from from the others. And so the, so the theorizing isnt restricted to suspects. But she was probably too proud or something, and she refused it and said, no, shed go and go off and earn her money. Sir. Annie Chapman, the one before I, Ill just say she was left very brutally cut open and very much on display. The penultimate nail in the coffin is that he had a stepfather, his father abandoned him when he was, or abandoned the family when he was about one or something. Good to clarify. Erik: Yeah. In her family history, her, her family are from the East End, the east end of London. Its not called Bucks Road now, its called Durward Street. Paul hadnt come forward. My guest, Edward Stow, believes the killer was a man named Charles Lechmere, a local East End resident who murdered in the early morning hours while on his way to his work. I went around what remained of the Ripper sites in the mid sixties, and by god was it still a rough old place, The Roebuck Pub was on the corner of Bucks Row, and one swift light and bitter in there was enough to make you bid a hasty retreat, outside whilst on the rounds there was a Bedford van following a bloke carrying a blue plastic bucket as he cheerfully emptied the parking meters of sixpences! Birthdate: 1782. So the next day is the Monday, and thats the, the inquest started on the Saturday. And thats roughly when the letter was received. His video series, the House of Lechmere, can be found on YouTube. The next, theres two on one night Liz Stride and Catherine Eddowes. Used his Policeman step fathers name as a one off to avoid suspicion. No, he died on 01/01/1822, And then they went, then they both said, oh, were both late for work. A series of murders that took place in the East End of London from August to November 1888 was blamed on an unidentified assailant who was nicknamed Jack the Ripper. Very strange that Police didnt investigate a Policemans son!! Such is the case with Charles Allen Lechmere or, to use the name that he is better known under - Charles Cross. Basically. And thats the five. They get, they get, they get very personal and very bitter about these things. And the conversation between Lechmere and Meison is a big, is is also in dispute because according to PC Meison, he says that Lechmere said to him, or, or the man, he didnt get his name. Moreover, if we use Flower and Dean St., as the epicenter of the events, and was the place where a Geographic Profiler believed the Ripper either, lived, or habituated nearby. I think they had tunnel vision at the time for Pizer. Now the other victim, Catherine Eddowes, was killed in an area that was an area that was well known for street prostitutes, but was also on his old route to work from when he used to live in that district near his mother, up until he moved in June. Husband of Mary Lechmere. All the other Jack the Ripper victims, the, the culprit left the victims on display, almost certainly to shock and awe, whoever found them first, usually with their legs, sort of akimbo. And then the last one was Francis Coles, a few years later. Is Captain Charles Lechmere still alive? Manage SettingsContinue with Recommended Cookies. En 2000 el ripelogo Derek Osborne sugiri que el infame asesino podra haber sido Cross, en un nmero de la revista Ripperana, ya que fue descubierto junto a la vctima. La posible culpabilidad del cochero fue discutida ms a fondo por Michael Connor, en cuatro nmeros de The Ripperologist., Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Or the police think that the, that the, the culprit would be a madman, a total lunatic because to commit this sort of crime, they have an assumption that itd have to be some sort of monster in human form. The gaunt face, thick brows, and long, thin nose. The following year saw the possibility further explored in an article by John Carey, while Osborne went on to examine a set of remarkable coincidences which suggested that 'Cross' was in fact a man legally known as Lechmere. If you go from Mitre Square where Catherine Eddowes was found to Goulston Street, which is where this doorway was, its in a direct line, a direct route back to Lechmeres house, points directly to Lechmere lived. St Anne Westminster London Middlesex . But I guess it doesnt transfer over the Atlantic cause theyre fairly small beer compared to , some of your, your gangsters. Thames Torso Murders. Only Princess Diana, the death of Princess Diana. Ill come back to the blood in a second, but the, I havent mentioned, I sort of keeping this back a little bit, Pickfords at Broad Street, one of the goods that came into London from these other places like Birmingham and other towns in, in Britain. Erik: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. His real name was Charles Allen Lechmere, who lived at 22 Doveton Street off Cambridge Heath Roadfive minutes' walk from Buck's Row. Identifying himself as Charles Allen Cross. Could be beer, could be anything really. Ran off, found another victim who was Catherine Eddowes, and killed her, and then did fulfill the whole shock and awe, full display ritual. He is suspected by some as having been the infamous serial killer [13] Your email address will not be published. And so the different newspapers there, the, there was about 10 or 12 different journalists. So they went over and there is Polly Nichols laying dead on the floor. There were more. Edward: Well, they can be quite with some people. Some people would think when, when Robert Paul was coming up to him that he should have run away. Who do you believe the killer was? Eight days later. Its always named after where the first bit was found. Their journalists happen to get his name wrong and call him George Cross. And come the end of the night shed spent it all and didnt have a room for one of these lodging houses I mentioned earlier, one of these doss houses where itinerant people like that would stay in, in lodging houses or doss houses. Al Capone. Theyd sent a journalist down to hover around Bucks Row as all the newspapers did to try and find some extra story. This is in Bucks Road, which is a, a road around the back of where White Chapel Station is now. I can actually provide sort of scenes of crime connections with Lechmere to all of the murders, including the ones, the other ones apart from the Five, like Martha Tabram for example, or even Rose Mylett or Alice McKenzie. The blood, well theres, theres arguments that there wouldnt have been necessarily a lot of blood. Now they walked away together. He wouldve killed Stride visiting his mother. Do you have Ancestry in America? So they didnt, they didnt go to the police and helpfully tell the police the, this extra information they had. Elizabeth Lechmere. The other side of the road was in Whitechapel the numbering was even on the E side and odd on the W. The proximity to the Pinchin Street arch can be seen. You can track people down more efficiently now, where people were living in 1888 or that period than, than, than people could at the time. My guest, Edward Stow, believes the killer was a man named Charles Lechmere, a local East End resident who murdered in the early morning hours while on his way to his work. Its quite famous this, it said The Jews are the men that will not be blamed for nothing. Packages could be anything from shop to shops or whatever, like a van driver, which is actually the most common occupation for a serial killer nowadays. Now, in my series I, I give the reason for this, and that is that in my opinion, Lechmere, he had been -Robert Pauls newspaper story had forced Lechmere to come forward. Pinchin Street Torso is one of them between 1887 and 1889. Its so great to have as my guest today, Edward Stow. Some had him down as George Cross. Nothing about another being wanted by another policeman and with a definite possibility that the woman wasnt just laying on the floor, but that she was dead, which put makes it negligent and Meison not taking his name and probably really should have made sure he went back with him to the scene of the incident. And this is the only instance where someone was seen standing by the victim before theyd raised the alarm. One of the newspaper reports describes how he was attired and he, he turned up in his work clothes at the, you know, at the inquest. He moved to Doveton Street, so that put his route to work. They, they were abandoned women who had kids and stuff and turned to drink and then turned to prostitution. Now, thats a bit of a coincidence for a start. The name was made up by a new-. Because car men wore aprons and its this incongruous detail. So she said she made some sort of, this is quite a famous thing, that shed be back because shed shed earned her money four times over and shed go out and shed earn it again. More blood became evident. They were middle class pockets as well, but they, they, it had the largest concentration of lodging houses, which is where people would sleep when they didnt have a proper accommodation for themselves. And it was on his route to work from his house in Doveton Street to Pickfords in, in Broad Street. Other people refuse to believe that PC Meisen was right. Version 5.6.4 All times are GMT. But theres, theres different schools of thought on that. Well, Ill give you another example. Sunday was the only day off. Lechmere's logical shortest routes to workone passing down Hanbury Street, the other down Old Montague Streetwould have Lechmere pass nearby streets around the same times as [15] Given this data, Holmgren argues Lechmere is the most plausible suspect for the Ripper murders. It was south of two major trunk roads and slightly south of where all the other ones were. He didnt realize that initially, but once he came up, said he realized that this guy had been standing right by the body. Erik: Well this has been excellent. Whereas Lechmeres mother actually managed to marry a policeman, which is pretty secure occupation to have for a husband. I understand that blood would not have been jetting out of her neck if she had been strangled prior to having her throat cut, but to cut the throat so deeply that the head was almost removed, I have to think that would have still been a messy job. Its been remodeled, but its still there. If you were to look at any, the, theres a couple of forums I dunno if youve ever seen them. Some gave it wrongly as Andrew. Which aids the idea of the Ripper blending into the woodwork. So lots of early books called him George Cross and that some gave his middle name, which was Allen. Edward: Pizer was his real name. So theres a, theres a neat, if you look at the map, its a neat little triangle of, of geography there. Mary Jane Kelly was murdered near the northernmost route to his work, and the time frame in which she is estimated to have been killed is reconcilable with his presumed journey, although the day she was killed was a holiday and he may have had the day off work. He says that, that a man who was a car man came up to him. But there is a sort of, the guy who lived with her, who was probably her pimp a few years before , Lechmeres kids went to the same school as the guy who was almost certainly Mary Kellys pimp. 2,805 views Aug 29, 2021 New version - https://youtube.com/shorts/AiGGOAgKsY. My presumption is he had an apron and, and he just stuck it in a, in a pocket in there or something. Edward: Okay. Then it was like a haulier -thats why he was a car man. And then it reconvened on the Monday and Meison gives his his evidence and he says, oh yeah, someone come up to me and tell me about the murder. London, England, the son of John Allen Lechmere and Maria Louisa Roulson. Theres, theres certain stories where the docks, the docks of London were based in the East End. Its the only case where someones been seen alone by victim before raising the alarm. And I think this goes for this in England and America, they dont have a great track record in solving serial crime, Or psychopath type killers because theyve got a very good track record at catching normal murderers because theyre like, normally theyre and they did, then they did in the Victorian time, cuz nearly always, its a member of the family, isnt it? As I was mentioning to you earlier, that these newspapers were competing with each other for unique stories. Pickfords company for more than 20 years. Whoever did it, did it quite cleanly as far as blood is concerned. One sees CLs intersectional routes between his work and home, with F&D squarely in the middle of them all. Why wouldnt you at least take the apron off? Theres not a motive like they wanna rob them or, or defraud them of something or get an inheritance or, or, or theyre jealous or something like that. Its one of the a number of the streets associated with the Jack The Ripper crimes were renamed. I went into the yard of 29, Hanbury Street, and was surprised just how small and narrow the passageway was, Mitre Square opposite the Kearley and Tonge warehouse was practically unchanged, there was of course no mass immigration to encounter back then. Theres theories about all sorts of things which arent necessarily suspect related, if you saw what I mean. This, the policeman who came upon the crime scene while they were walking down the road was regarded as the first finder. Derek F. Osborne: 'The Man Who Was Jack the Ripper'. So my presumption is he was going back to his old stamping ground on Saturday night, his night off, preceding his night off, going to see his mother or his daughter perhaps. But there are other murders. And that was all that really came out of her out though, when it was sort of oozing out, merely was sort of through gravity rather than splashing everywhere. He is suspected by some as having been the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper. But so the Jack the Ripper murders were those five. And Robert Paul said that the man was standing where the body was. And again, Ive had Donald Rumbelow and Tom Wescott on his guests. In Ripperology theres lots of very, very bitter arguments over all these sorts of things. Either of them turn up at the inquest? Not for a very long after death, but quite immediately after death they can give a sort of involuntary shudder, and it was probably that, that he felt, which is another indication that the body might have just been killed. Thats the other piece of information. He is suspected by some as having been the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper . When she remarried. So they discounted, in other words, Robert Pauls story of them finding the body first, him and this unnamed person who he saw standing in the street, which was Charles Cross, Charles Lechmere. Do you feel that sometimes that the number of suspects, theories, seem so vast? geographic profiling, developed decades after the Ripper murders, can help narrow down likely suspects by analyzing their established movements and habitual locations in comparison to crime scenes. Wolf Vanderlinden: '"Considerable Doubt" and the Death of Annie Chapman', "Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Did the Ripper work for Pickfords? Theres a woman there. And they left the body. Alas I believe hes still unknown. Charles Allen Lechmere (5 October 1849 - 23 December 1920), also known as Charles Cross, was a Carman (cart driver) from the east side of London who apparently worked for the Pickfords company for more than 20 years. Most of the Ripper suspects, you cant provide any connection at all. The murders of But he he borrowed his long dead stepfathers name to call himself Charles Cross. Theres a couple of different testimonies he give where its very clear that he didnt like the police and he hovered, in my opinion, he hovered the arms length away from, well, Lechmere was talking to PC Meison because he didnt wanna get involved with this policeman. September 28, 2021, 11:09 AM. It, it is a very argued over case. Reverse. Ive, Ive had an interest in it, more superficial interest in it since I was a child, but I really got into it properly about 10, 10 years ago in, in detail, which was actually a consequence of my partner being interested in in her family, her family history, and always Googling her families, her different families, her uncle, you know, different names in her family. So its now called Durward Street. Thank you so much for your time today. Edward: Okay. And at the time I thought, this doesnt sound realistic, cuz theyre, theyre, theyre quite a poor family living in the East end to be a, you know, a hundred years before having a captain at, in the Battle of Trafalgar seems, seems a big drop in social standing sort of thing. His mother died at the age of (Captain was 0 years old). Its probably a worldwide thing, isnt it, I guess. And so Im doing research on that, but that, its called The House of Lechmere. So as unequivocably, this bit of apron belonged to Catherine Eddowes. And quite. Family. And so his apron probably had blood traces on anyway, so heaving up and lifting up these size of meat in his normal occupation. He was one, he, he, he is one of the first characters that we meet in the story of the murder of Polly Nichols, but under the name Charles Cross. So when did you first become a student of this case? [18] I finally have proof that Charles Lechmere was allowed anonymity by the Police , and just like those proclaiming his guilt , the evidence of his innocence has been staring us in the face all along . [5] by Osborne in 2007, For being negligent and all that sort of stuff. Cause youve gotta have a strategy and tactics. Is indicative that it was slowly oozing and flowing out of her body through sort of gravity primarily. But he could tell he was a car man and he said youre wanted by another policeman around the corner, theres a woman laying on the floor. Now I think he walked with Robert Paul to find out where Robert Paul was going, and to probably to bend his ear, know, to talk to him along the way and give him reassurance that he was innocent and it was nothing to do with him anyway. Is that an American thing as well? And he was brought up just by his mother until he was about eight or something, like about eight. 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