I know I've seen that face before...

[samhexum]

The suspected face of notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper has finally been revealed after police made a chilling discovery while trawling through old archives.

While the true identity of the infamous murderer has never been discovered, the only known facial composite of the killer has now been shared.

Among dozens of artifacts, the face was found etched into the handle of a wooden walking stick, which was owned by the police officer who spent years attempting to catch him.

Scotland Yard Detective Frederick Abberline was removed from the case in 1889 after failing to find Jack the Ripper, who terrorized the streets of London’s East End.

The chilling image is the only reported facial composite of the killer, whose identity remains a mystery more than a century later.

For years, the wooden cane artifact had been stored at the Police College in Bramshill, Hampshire, UK and was feared lost when the institution was shut down in 2015.

Thankfully, it was rediscovered by staff searching through memorabilia at the College of Policing’s headquarters in Ryton, West Midlands.

Now Jack the Ripper’s face has gone on display to highlight advancements in police technology to recruits.

A College of Policing spokesperson said two staff unearthed it when trawling through artifacts placed into storage following Bramshill’s closure.

“Finding this cane was an exciting moment for us,” the college’s content creator Antony Cash said.

“Jack the Ripper is one of the biggest and most infamous murder cases in our history and his crimes were significant in paving the way for modern policing and forensics as it caused police to begin experimenting with and developing new techniques as they attempted to try and solve these murders, such as crime scene preservation, profiling and photography.

“This walking cane is such a fascinating artifact which represents such a historically significant time in policing.

The cane was gifted to Abberline after he was taken off the case.

He retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1892 after 30 years of service, and died in 1929 without ever knowing Jack the Ripper’s real identity.

He looks like an actor; I just can't think of whom.

 

https://nypost.com/2022/12/29/jack-the-ripper-only-known-facial-composite-found-in-archives/

Edited December 30, 2022 by samhexum
just for the hell of it

[CuriousByNature]

11 hours ago, samhexum said:

The suspected face of notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper has finally been revealed after police made a chilling discovery while trawling through old archives.

While the true identity of the infamous murderer has never been discovered, the only known facial composite of the killer has now been shared.

Among dozens of artifacts, the face was found etched into the handle of a wooden walking stick, which was owned by the police officer who spent years attempting to catch him.

Scotland Yard Detective Frederick Abberline was removed from the case in 1889 after failing to find Jack the Ripper, who terrorized the streets of London’s East End.

The chilling image is the only reported facial composite of the killer, whose identity remains a mystery more than a century later.

For years, the wooden cane artifact had been stored at the Police College in Bramshill, Hampshire, UK and was feared lost when the institution was shut down in 2015.

Thankfully, it was rediscovered by staff searching through memorabilia at the College of Policing’s headquarters in Ryton, West Midlands.

Now Jack the Ripper’s face has gone on display to highlight advancements in police technology to recruits.

A College of Policing spokesperson said two staff unearthed it when trawling through artifacts placed into storage following Bramshill’s closure.

“Finding this cane was an exciting moment for us,” the college’s content creator Antony Cash said.

“Jack the Ripper is one of the biggest and most infamous murder cases in our history and his crimes were significant in paving the way for modern policing and forensics as it caused police to begin experimenting with and developing new techniques as they attempted to try and solve these murders, such as crime scene preservation, profiling and photography.

“This walking cane is such a fascinating artifact which represents such a historically significant time in policing.

The cane was gifted to Abberline after he was taken off the case.

He retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1892 after 30 years of service, and died in 1929 without ever knowing Jack the Ripper’s real identity.

He looks like an actor; I just can't think of whom.

 

https://nypost.com/2022/12/29/jack-the-ripper-only-known-facial-composite-found-in-archives/

Whoa!  Jack the Ripper was Charlie Chan?  🤣

[Luv2play]

20 hours ago, samhexum said:

The suspected face of notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper has finally been revealed after police made a chilling discovery while trawling through old archives.

While the true identity of the infamous murderer has never been discovered, the only known facial composite of the killer has now been shared.

Among dozens of artifacts, the face was found etched into the handle of a wooden walking stick, which was owned by the police officer who spent years attempting to catch him.

Scotland Yard Detective Frederick Abberline was removed from the case in 1889 after failing to find Jack the Ripper, who terrorized the streets of London’s East End.

The chilling image is the only reported facial composite of the killer, whose identity remains a mystery more than a century later.

For years, the wooden cane artifact had been stored at the Police College in Bramshill, Hampshire, UK and was feared lost when the institution was shut down in 2015.

Thankfully, it was rediscovered by staff searching through memorabilia at the College of Policing’s headquarters in Ryton, West Midlands.

Now Jack the Ripper’s face has gone on display to highlight advancements in police technology to recruits.

A College of Policing spokesperson said two staff unearthed it when trawling through artifacts placed into storage following Bramshill’s closure.

“Finding this cane was an exciting moment for us,” the college’s content creator Antony Cash said.

“Jack the Ripper is one of the biggest and most infamous murder cases in our history and his crimes were significant in paving the way for modern policing and forensics as it caused police to begin experimenting with and developing new techniques as they attempted to try and solve these murders, such as crime scene preservation, profiling and photography.

“This walking cane is such a fascinating artifact which represents such a historically significant time in policing.

The cane was gifted to Abberline after he was taken off the case.

He retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1892 after 30 years of service, and died in 1929 without ever knowing Jack the Ripper’s real identity.

He looks like an actor; I just can't think of whom.

 

https://nypost.com/2022/12/29/jack-the-ripper-only-known-facial-composite-found-in-archives/

He looks a bit like Somerset Maugham. But he was of a later generation and only looked like that in the 1950's.

[BeamerBikes]

Tobin Bell from the SAW movie franchise https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(Saw_character)

 

[samhexum]

1 minute ago, BeamerBikes said:

Tobin Bell from the SAW movie franchise https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(Saw_character)

not even close