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created something special.  And then Jay-Z used the powers of Baphomet to trick Beyonce into marrying him.  Bam!
     Admittedly, it’s kind of farfetched, but if we couldn’t get at least a dozen people to believe it just because it’s written on the internet, I’ll eat my hat.
     

Chapter 5: Which Brings Us to Jack the Ripper
     Anyone who tells you they know who Jack the Ripper really was is wildly arrogant and sadly uninformed. 
     Here’s the truth, folks: Nobody knows and nobody ever will.
     I spent an entire year researching the Jack the Ripper crimes for my book WHITECHAPEL: THE FINAL STAND OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.  I built timelines, studied autopsy reports, worked with the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit, and read newspaper accounts until my eyes started to go numb. 
     One of the worst mistakes any criminal investigator can make is developing a theory first, then structuring their investigation to support that theory. 
     Imagine if one of your neighbors was found murdered, and the detective who showed up took one look at the crime scene and said, “I bet that guy who lives next door did it.” 
     The detective then based every single investigative decision around proving it was you who killed the person.  At the end of the day, you’d be arrested, and the case would be based on a series of shaky assumptions. 
     That is exactly what happens with Jack the Ripper nowadays.  Not just with the Freemasons, either.  Any random name that pops up from history is given the once-over by amateur Ripperologists who doggedly seek to pin the crimes on him. 
     And for the record, amateur Ripperologists aren’t just pimply youths in their mother’s basements logging onto Casebook.org.  In 2002, best-selling novelists Patricia Cornwell got it into her head that world famous painter Walter Sickert must have been the culprit.
     She published a book titled PORTRAIT OF A KILLER: JACK THE RIPPER – CASE CLOSED in which she systematically accused Sickert of all those horrible crimes.  What was her evidence, you ask?
     Well…mainly, he painted things that appeared to be scary and unkind to women.
     Wait, you mean that’s not enough to convince you?
     She conducted DNA testing on stamps licked by the painter and had handwriting analysis done on the alleged Ripper letters and destroyed a valuable painting all in the effort to prove her initial thought.  And what did it gain her?
     People like me laughing at her. 
     Jack the Ripper, case closed.  Indeed.
     The list of Ripper suspects is endlessly amusing, and it includes people like Lewis Carrol (author of Alice in Wonderland), Prince Albert, and Jill the Ripper.  Among the top of the list, however, are the more serious suspects and who among us has not heard of poor Sir William Gull?
     Gull is the perfect Jack the Ripper suspect.  Made to order.  You couldn’t ask for juicier subject matter.  First, Gull was the royal physician to Queen Victoria.  Second, he was a Freemason. 
     Guilty. 
     Reams and reams of volumes of books, films, articles, and internet sites have been devoted to proving William Gull was Jack the Ripper.  By association, this also drags in the Royal Family and the entire Masonic Order into the equation.  Pretty good bargain for conspiracy theorists, I must say.
     Except for one tiny detail.  In 1887 Gull began to experience a series of strokes brought on by a cerebral hemorrhage.  These events left him partially paralyzed and the strokes continued until he passed away in 1890.  He was seventy-three years old.  
     Pishaw!  Why let the facts get in the way of a good story?  People find all sorts of ways to get around that information, and often tie it into the crimes themselves.  They say that William Gull committed the Jack the Ripper crimes precisely because he was sick.  As if some kind of brain fever spurred Gull on to unleash his fury upon the whores of Whitechapel. 
     I’d ask them to find me one example in human