A) In Patricia Cornwell's book "Portrait of a Killer : Jack the Ripper Case Closed" who did the author name as the killer ?

B) What Ripper suspect's suicide coincided approximately with the end of the Ripper crimes ?

C) What Jack the Ripper suspect did the press nickname "Leather Apron" ?

D) According to the verse ending "... but I'm your own lighthearted friend, Yours truly, Jack the Ripper." what three things was the Ripper not ?

E) Which of the five victims attributed to Jack the Ripper lacked the usual degree of mutilation, and in fact just had her throat cut ?

Hi Dogspit,

A)British painter, Walter Sickert, was named by Cornwell as the most likely person to be Jack The Ripper. AllReaders

B)Montague John Druitt:
His disappearance and death shortly after the fifth and last canonical murder (which took place on November 9, 1888) and alleged "private information" led some of the investigators of the time to suggest he was the Ripper, thus explaining the end to the series of murders. Wikipedia

C)John Pizer:
His expression is said to be sinister, his eyes small and glittering, his lips are usually parted in a grin, which is not only unreassuring, but is excessively repellent. He always carries a knife and gets his nickname from a leather apron he always wore. He was said to be a slipper maker by trade, though does not work. Casebook: Jack the Ripper

D)I'm not a butcher, I'm not a Yid, Nor yet a foreign Skipper, Casebook: Jack the Ripper


E)Elizabeth Stride.
A few authors of Ripper theories believe that Stride was not a victim of the same killer. Some suggest that she was killed by her lover, Michael Kidney. Unlike the other victims, she had no mutilations beyond a cut throat, and some have expressed doubt about the way it was inflicted. Wikipedia

Quite right on all counts !

Thanks for the answers !