Walter Sickert

And yet, Mike's confession doesn't put an end to the diary theory, because Mike's wife claims the diary isn't a hoax.

She says it's a family heirloom passed down to her from her father.

She later publishes The Last Victim, The Extraordinary Life of Florence Maybrick, the Wife of Jack the Ripper.

In researching the book, she finds that she's actually related to Florence, which I guess could explain how her family had the diary.

A solution? In the article, Thomas claims that he has access to notes left behind by his former teacher, Sir William Gull.

Sir William was Queen Victoria's doctor, as well as Eddie's.

To be clear, Thomas's original article only refers to his culprit as S., He does, however, mention that S's nickname is Collars and Cuffs, which is what Prince Eddie's father called him.

He was making fun of Eddie's rather long neck.

In 2002, the crime novelist Patricia Cornwell published a book called Portraits of a Killer.

She makes the case that Walter Sickert, a German-British painter, was Jack the Ripper.

Part of her argument is based on forensic analysis of mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA.

Apparently, a sequence of mtDNA found on some of the so-called Ripper letters is a match for sequences found on letters written by Sickert.

Bit- bits of their language in there.

So a bit of Sickert there.

Yeah, yes.

Richard Tuttle in there, like Carl Andre, and Guston.

It's kind of like that,

right? Walter Sickert, British painter.

Yeah, there's like two of them.

Author Patricia Cornwell popularized the theory that Sickert was the unaliver, pointing to his artwork correspondence and apparent fascination with the unalivings.

The second was worse.

They researched the fantastic fairy tale told by a man who calls himself Joseph Sickert.

He was born in 1925, third of the five children of William and Alice Margaret Gorman, nee Crook.

Living in Camden Town as an artist, picture restorer, and dealer, he adopted the name of Camden's most famous artist and claimed to be the illegitimate son of Walter Sickert.

By 1971, his fictional self-aggrandizement had grown.

His mother was illegitimate, and his grandfather's true identity is unknown.

Joseph Sickert started claiming that his grandfather was the Duke of Clarence, and in fact, his mother was legitimate, as there had been a secret Catholic marriage between Albert Victor and Annie Elizabeth Crook.

He claimed that the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, had arranged for Annie to be kidnapped from their love nest in Cleveland Street and had her falsely certified insane by Sir William Gull so that she could be held in an asylum until her death in 1920.

He envisions the project as sweeping in scope and deeply personal in character.

The painter, Walter Sickert, born in Germany and long rooted in the Camden Town neighborhood, built a career depicting music halls, modest rented interiors, and working class life.

No suspicion attached to him during 1888.

Decades later, a hypothesis linking him to the Whitechapel killings took shape partly through his own paintings.

It doesn't work to take a photograph of it.

I, I was reading recently about, um, Sickert recently, and Sickert worked as a studio assistant to, to, to Whistler.

Whistler had a studio in Chelsea in the late 1800s.

And they used to go out, uh, i- i- in the evening and stand in front of a, a view of some sort.