Ooohhh...Wouldn't we all love to know where Jack the Ripper really came from and ended up.

The Patriot. Both "good" and "bad" guy totally misrepresented from a historical perspective. Still, I do enjoy the hell out of that movie. The tomahawk scene is worth the price of admission alone.

Probably died of some sort of venereal disease. Which is why he went on the rampage.

This would make a good thread. I read that he was or wanted to be a surgeon and fled to America.

Sorry to be off topic, monkeydelarge. You've starated an interesting discussion here with Movies.

Everything containing Richard the Lionhearted and John Lackland. Robin Hood have a lot to answer for there

You guys mean she, right?

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/was-jack-the-ripper-a-woman

Well, I read the link article and now this demands more research. *a woman*????? *off in a huff*

Oliver Stone, "JFK". Whatever we do know about the Kennedy assassination, we can be sure that if it's represented in Stone's willful fiction, it didn't go down that way at all. Total fabrication from beginning to end.

I won't bash "Da Vinci Code", because first, I was never quite sure it was meant to be taken as historical, and second, Bronze Dan is such an amateur that I am surprised anybody takes him seriously as a writer. Oh, wait, I just did.

"Amadeus" and "Shakespeare in Love" are likewise worthless as historical accounts, but they are too much fun to carp over.

You know that does make more sense. Husband off banging hookers contracts a venereal disease, passes it off to the wife, wife then becomes Jill the ripper. Now all we have to find is the woman that chopped off her husband's cock during that time period and we will have our serial killer.

You know, there was a cartoon I really liked when I was a kid called "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" . I remember a scene where Billy picks his nose, and sticks his finger in so deep that he takes out his brain . When he sees it on his finger, he looks left, then he looks right, and then he puts it in his mouth, chews it and swallows it . Every post you make reminds me of that scene...

Unwarranted...

Thanks.

Yeah, pretty much. I saw a documentary on the History Channel a few years ago that does the best job I've seen of explaining things. If you know anything about Jack Ruby or Lee Oswald, the whole situation of them being chosen is completely bizarre. Oswald was a known communist that had spent time in Russia and the Russians turned him down for any missions before he eventually returned. And Jack Ruby had easy access to the police station because he was on good terms with the cops. He also was fiercely patriotic and had a nasty temper, he was known to remove people he didn't like from his club on his own.

As far as the original topic goes, if a film maker doesn't have strong feelings, then chances are good that they aren't going to bother making the film about somebody. If it's somebody that you're kind of meh about, you might as well just make a fictional movie about somebody you're more involved in.

Sounds like the case of Hawley Crippen, slightly reversed. Crippen moved to London and tried to become a surgeon there, but he did not meet British qualifications. After his second wife went missing and Crippen went traveling with a mistress disguised as a boy, people started asking questions. On circumstantial and somewhat doubtful evidence, he was convicted of poisoning her and hanged.

What happened to Cora, who may have run off or met a bad end with a lover, or overdosed, or been killed by Crippen to get her out of the way or because she caught syphilis, has never been determined with any certainty. The fragments found buried in Crippen's basement were, on later genetic evidence, definitely not her. Crippen may have been performing abortions and disposing of cases that went badly.

Detective Walter Dew became famous as the investigator in both the "Jack the Ripper" and Hawley Crippen cases.

I wouldn't be surprised if I found out he fled to America. Around that time, all the "crazy" people in Europe fled to America. Back then, you could kill a bunch of people or do something else not allowed then get on a ship to America, change your name then live out the rest of your life in peace and happiness. It makes sense, that we are the number one country, when it comes to serial killers. People's genes are very much responsible for who they are... Not entirely responsible, of course.