The continuing misadventures of Saucy Jack

The relationship between G33K41F3 and Jack the Ripper is getting a little out of hand.

After a quick blurb back in June about more bullshit Jack the Ripper theories I began to get hit with a lot of Ripper-related traffic, mostly likely from some very, very disappointed people.

How disappointed? Well, imagine if you were Googling the words "jack the ripper porn" and found my site. Which is exactly what somebody did. I have this feeling that Dalek and Batman porn just didn't do it for them (and I try not to think to much about what "it" might entail. I'm going to tell myself it was someone doing research so I don't have to send Igor down to the local medical hospital to fetch me a new brain.)

And here's the really funny part: when you Google "jack the ripper porn" the search engine pulls up G33K4L1F3 as its fourth favorite selection.

FOURTH. 

In your face, Wikipedia!

Jack the Ripper:Shameless hit-whoring

Question: What were the most popular keywords that brought folks to Geek for Life during the last month? Would it be Star Wars? Tron? Dalek Porn?

If you guessed Jack the Ripper Suspects you'd be right ... and probably as baffled as I am. It's all thanks to this little post where I pointed readers to the latest "break" in the Ripper murders. I'm sure an arrest is imminent.

New Jack the Ripper "suspect" revealed

There have been so many "Jack the Ripper" suspects identified over the years that, given time, we'll all eventually become persons of interest. The latest is a mortuary worker named Robert Mann, who historian Mei Trow claims fits the bill. From The Independent:

Using a profile of the Ripper drawn up by the FBI in 1988 to mark the centenary of his killings, Trow began looking for a local suspect who hailed from Whitechapel’s lower social classes, was the victim of a broken home, and was someone who had worked as either a butcher, a mortuary worker or a medical examiner’s assistant. He also used modern geographical profiling techniques that can pinpoint where a suspect might live depending on the nature and location of their killings. 

The odd thing is that so much time has passed that there is difference between having solid evidence and having no evidence at all. Anyone living in the London area in 1888 can become a potential suspect and there's nothing you can do to fully prove or disprove your case. It's historical wankery at it's finest.