Talk:Jack the Stripper

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THIS IS MADE UPhis penis deep into their throats, blocking their airways and killing them slowly.

I am beginning to doubt the authenticity of this article... Please provide a reference source, or I'll have to mark this as dubious... Brother Dysk 11:35, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

Seems to be at least vaguely legit, though the cock-suffocation isn't substantiated anywhere I can see. (And obfuscating the link as "organ" is bloody ridiculous.) And even from a practical viewpoint, you'd think he would be able to do this perhaps once before having his manful tallywhacker chewed off. grendel|khan 21:31, 2005 May 4 (UTC)

This has been hypothesized as the Stripper's means of killing his victims, although unproven. Much of this argument comes from the fact that the victim's front teeth were missing and that they suffocated. However, no one has conclusively proven that this is how the Stripper killed his victims.

His apparent modus operandi was to suffocate them with his penis as they fellated him. eeeeeh... This must be somekind of joke, right? How do one acheive that technically? I really need a source on that sentence if i'm not going to delete it.... --Konstantin 22:26, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Go ahead and delete it if you feel like it, but I recall seeing it mentioned in the Book of Lists. Or The Book of Lists II. But still - delete it if it pisses you off. --Wareq 04:54, 21 June 2005 (UTC)

Look at the crimelibrary.com link. It says that victims were strangled with a ligature, possibly made of their clothing. And the following quote is quite relevant:

"One senior detective, Detective Superintendent William Baldock, joined the investigative team after Barthelemy's body was discovered, and he propounded the startling theory that the women might have been choked to death during the act of fellatio. Yet you have to ask — if that were the case, why wouldn't the women have bitten their killer on the very sensitive part of his anatomy with which he was choking them? Even if they had lost a couple of teeth, this would surely still have been possible.

Author David Seabrook, who was granted access to closed police files on the case while researching his recent book, Jack Of Jumps, dismisses the fellatio theory as "a fairytale," borne of ignorance about such taboo sexual practices in the 1960s. Yet it perhaps reflects the state of "clutching at straws" to which investigating officers had been reduced." Slavedriver 13:54, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How many victims?

First it is stated as six, then five or seven, then another two names are added later, and ANOTHER two names ... ??? How many did he kill? It's confusing. This article should be flagged as needing to be cleaned up. 61.17.202.32 22:09, 10 February 2007 (UTC)