James Kelly was Jack the Ripper
From the previous class, we have been divided into few groups as we need to prosecute and defend for Jack the Ripper case. In my group, we have chose to prosecute James Kelly. Here, I would like to talk about James Kelly a little bit. In my opinion, he is the one and only, Jack the Ripper.

He was born at 20 April 1860 and died at 17 September 1929 at the age of 69. He murdered his wife in 1883 by stabbing her in the neck. He was medically proven an insane guy. He was committed to the Broadmoor Asylum that later he escaped using a key that he created by himself at 1888. Unfortuantely, the police cannot find him. In 1927, almost 40 years after his escape, he unexpectedly returned himself in to officials at Broadmoor Asylum. Two years later, he died.

Ed Norris, a retired NYPD cold-case detective examined the case for a Discover Channel program called "Jack the Ripper in America." Norris claims that James Kelly was not only Jack the Ripper's real identity, he was also responsible for multiple murders in cities around the United States.

Norris highlights a few features of Kelly to support his contention. He worked as a furniture upholsterer, a job that requires handiness with a knife. He also claimed to have resided in United States and left behind a journal that spoke of his story disapproval of the immorality of prostitutes and been on the 'warpath' during his time as a fugitive. Norris claims Kelly was in New York at the time of a ripper-like murder of a prostitutes named Carrie Brown as well as in a number of cities while each experienced one or two brutal murders of prostitures while Kelly was there.

After doing some research in the Internet, discussions and from my own background reading, I got to say that James Kelly was Jack the Ripper.