Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed

Bizarre, creepy, entertaining.

After reading the Kay Scarpetta series I was hopping for something more... And I most apologize but I'm not convinced that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper... some of the must famous painters, writers or creativity people thinkers are indeed very troubled... and even diagnosed with heavy mental problems... they even can have the thought to kill someone and expressed it... but that doesn't qualify that they are really murderers/killers.
The scientific evidences are just that evidences and in some proofed cases they were also wrong.
As expressed by the author in the very beginning she wasn't convinced about the book, she was depressed... and that is expressed through out all along, even when she convinced herself (after all the scientific evidences accumulate that proof that Sickert was the culprit) that she was in the right to accomplish the task.

first of all, this is the most ambitious book title I've ever experienced.

second of all, I cannot believe what a huge percentage of this is spent talking about Walter Sickert's (allegedly) deformed penis!!!!!!!!!! so much!!!!!!!!

finally, I simply do not care who was Jack the Ripper, not even if he had a normal penis

http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-143-portrait-of-a-killer-jack-the-ripper/

For some reason, this book just could NOT hold my attention. I was disappointed because I had so looked forward to reading it.

Interesting read!

She takes the slightest bit of circumstantial evidence and tries to turn it into fact. She presents situations initially as hypothetical, but then bases later conclusions upon the belief that these are true. When read with an unbiased mind it is clear that the author started with the presumption of guilt and built a convoluted and laughable tale to try and justify her verdict.