TikTok sleuth 破産した／（警察が）手入れするs open 'Jack the Ripper' mystery by identifying a 'creepy, rich, misogynistic artist' as the 殺し屋 of Victorian London - and you ALREADY know his 指名する

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For 136 years, the 身元 of Jack the Ripper has confounded history buffs.

Some say the 殺し屋 was 吊りくさび Carroll, the 'Alice in Wonderland' creator, others 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う Winston Churchill's dad ― Lord Randolph Churchill.

Others still say it was likely a 非，不，無-famous 地元の of Whitechapel, East London, where the gruesome slayings occurred in the 1880s.

Now, a TikToker from Tennessee has 追加するd a 指名する to the 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs.

Kiki Schirr, a perky, freckled redhead, 明かすd her theory in a ビデオ filmed in the 乗客 seat of her Hyundai Santa Fe.

Tennessee TikToker Kiki Schirr says a famous French artist could 井戸／弁護士席 have been the serial 殺し屋

An illustration of a street in?Whitechapel, East London, after Jack the Ripper （人命などを）奪う，主張するd another 犠牲者?

It's already clocked up more than 14 million 見解（をとる）s.

In it, she explains why she thinks French impressionist artist Edgar Degas was the 殺し屋.

The painter and sculptor is celebrated for his 作品 of ballerinas, bathing 女性（の）s and 売春婦s.

Schirr says Degas' 支配する-事柄 明らかにする／漏らすs more about him than was 以前 understood.

His obsession with women's 団体／死体s makes him a prime 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う for the 殺し屋 who stalked cobblestoned London by twilight.

'Those are the thoughts that I cannot get out of my 長，率いる,' Schirr says in her viral ビデオ.

'Did this artist get away with 殺人?'

Her theory casts a 悪意のある 影をつくる／尾行する on the 'pretty 絵s of ballerinas that hang in little girls rooms to this day,' she 追加するs.

'Were they painted by a 殺害者?'

At least a dozen 殺人s between 1888 and 1892 have been speculatively せいにするd to Jack the Ripper.?

A self-portrait of?Edgar Degas, the impressionist artist who?Kiki Schirr now でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れるs as a psychopath?

But only five of those, all committed in 1888, were linked by police to a 選び出す／独身 殺害者.

These いわゆる 'canonical five' 犠牲者s were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Kate Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly.

They're often 現在のd as 売春婦s killed while plying their 貿易（する）, but this is 論争d.

At the time, police 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd the Ripper was a butcher, 予定 to the way his 犠牲者s were killed and the fact they were discovered 近づく to the dockyards, where meat was brought into the city.

Several people have been identified as the serial 殺し屋.

But no theory is 広範囲にわたって 受託するd. It's now doubtful the mystery will ever be solved.

Degas is a prime 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う, Schirr says in her seven-minute 新規加入 to the enigma.

For one, she says, he lived at the 権利 time.

Born in Paris in 1834, Degas was in his 早期に 50s at the time of the 殺人，大当り spree, she says.

Edgar Degas often 焦点（を合わせる）d on women and ダンサーs, who may have been sex 労働者s?

Tennessee's Kiki Schirr has nearly 124,000 TikTok 信奉者s and her Jack the Ripper ビデオ has been seen more than 14 million times?

At that time, 記録，記録的な／記録するs show, he 'was beginning to really hate women,' she 追加するs.

'He'd always been a bit of a misogynist, but he was degrading into a horrible, awful misanthrope of a person,' she 追加するs.

Victorian 警官，（賞などを）獲得するs were searching for a butcher, but Schirr says the 殺人s could also have been the work of a painter.

'De gas was a classically-trained artist, he had …に出席するd human dissections, probably 多重の times,' she says.

She uses biographical accounts of Degas and his oeuvre to 示唆する he was a psychopath.

He was 'obsessive about knowing every 詳細（に述べる） about how a 団体／死体 worked,' she says.

He often compared women to horses and other animals, she 追加するs.

His 熟考する／考慮するs of women in Paris 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s in the late 1800s 示すd late-night trysts with men, she 追加するd.

Oftentimes, Degas' pastel pieces of women bore the 'dark line' of a 略章 '削減（する） across' their necks, she says ― reminiscent of the Ripper's throat-slitting escapades.

One of?Jack the Ripper's 削除するing attacks, as 現在のd in the?Police Gazette

She also 演説（する）／住所s an anti-Semitic scrawl left in chalk on a 塀で囲む beside a 手がかり（を与える） in Eddowes' 殺人 ― a 重要な element of Ripper lore.

The language used 示唆するd at a French （衆議院の）議長, she says.

Degas, she 追加するs, was an artist who could wel l have had a piece of chalk in his pocket.

同様に as 動機, Schirr says Degas had plenty of 適切な時期.

He was rich and 井戸／弁護士席-connected, she says.

'He lived in Paris, which was just a short train ride away from London, where the 殺人s occurred,' she 追加するs.

She 公式文書，認めるs that Degas wrote a 'トン of letters' from southern フラン at the time of two Ripper slayings.

This was likely Degas 'setting himself up an アリバイ' through a paper 追跡する, she 追加するs.

The clip went viral, and Schirr has now 地位，任命するd more than a dozen ビデオs about Degas' culpability.

One テレビ視聴者 賞賛するd an '利益／興味ing theory' that left them 'genuinely 納得させるd.'

Others said they'd always been uneasy about the 'eerie' 質 of Degas' work.

信奉者's of Schirr's theory say Degas' ballerina artworks now look 'creepy' and 'eerie'?

'I always thought the ballerina 絵s were off-putting, but this now makes sense to why,' 地位，任命するd another.

Schirr has won over fans, but her theory has problems.

She says Paris-bases Degas could take a 'short train ride' to stalk London women.

But the Eurostar rail link between the two 資本／首都s didn't open until 1994, after the Channel Tunnel was built.

That's more than a century after the Ripper terrorized Whitechapel.

Still, Schirr's theory is the biggest 開発 in the Ripper saga since last month's 発覚s of a never-before-seen police とじ込み／提出する.

The fascinating 古記録 was 設立する by the 広大な／多数の／重要な-grandson of a 探偵，刑事 who worked on the 事例／患者.

It 含むs two photographs of Michael Ostrog, an 早期に 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う.

Ostrog, a ロシアの 移民，移住（する）, was a petty どろぼう and 反対／詐欺 artist who spent long periods in 刑務所，拘置所 and in a mental 亡命.

However, he was quickly 支配するd out as the Ripper as it 現れるd that he was in the lunatic wing of a French 刑務所，拘置所 when the 殺人s took place.

From hell: The 悪名高い serial 殺し屋 who terrorised Victorian London... but who was he (or she)?

One 調書をとる／予約する 指名するd Queen Victoria's 外科医 Sir John Williams (above), who had a 外科 in Whitechapel at the time, as Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is thought to have killed at least five young women in Whitechapel, East London, between August 31 and November 9, 1888, but was never caught.

非常に／多数の individuals have been （刑事）被告 of 存在 the serial 殺し屋.

At the time, police 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd the Ripper must have been a butcher, 予定 to the way his 犠牲者s were killed and the fact they were discovered 近づく to the dockyards where meat was brought into the city.

There are several 申し立てられた／疑わしい links between the 殺し屋 and 王室のs. First is Sir William Gull, the 王室の 内科医. Many have （刑事）被告 him of helping get rid of the 申し立てられた／疑わしい 売春婦s' 団体／死体s, while others （人命などを）奪う，主張する he was the Ripper himself.

A 調書をとる／予約する has 指名するd Queen Victoria's 外科医 Sir John Williams as the 悪名高い 殺し屋. He had a 外科 in Whitechapel at the time.

Another theory links the 殺人s with Qu een Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert 勝利者, the Duke of Clarence.

At one point, cotton merchant James Maybrick was the number one 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う, に引き続いて the 出版（物） of some of his diary which appeared to 示唆する he was the 殺し屋.

Some believe the diary to be a 偽造, although no one has been able to 示唆する who (1)偽造する／(2)徐々に進むd it.

Other 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs 含む Montague John Druitt, a Dorset-born barrister. He killed himself in the Thames seven weeks after the last 殺人.

George Chapman, さもなければ known as Severyn K?osowski, is also a 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う after he 毒（薬）d three of his wives and was hanged in 1903.

Another 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd by police was Aaron Kosminski. He was 認める to Colney Hatch Lunatic 亡命 and died there.

Dr Thomas Neill Cream 毒（薬）d four London 売春婦s with strychnine and was hanged in 1892.

Some of the more bizarre theories about who the 殺害者 was 含む author 吊りくさび Carroll

Some of the more bizarre links 含む 吊りくさび Carroll, author of the Alice In Wonderland 調書をとる／予約するs, who taught at Christ Church until 1881 - which was at the 最前部 of the Ripper 殺人 scenery.

Winston Churchill's father - Lord Randolph Churchill - has also been 指名するd as a 可能性のある 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う.

罪，犯罪 writer Patricia Cornwell believes she has '割れ目d' the 事例／患者 by 明らかにするing 証拠 that 確認するs the artist Walter Sickert was the prime 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う. Her theories have not been 一般に 受託するd.

Author William J Perring raised the 可能性 that Jack the Ripper might 現実に be 'Julia' - a 救済 Army 兵士.

In The Seduction Of Mary Kelly, his novel about the life and times of the final 犠牲者, he 示唆するs Jack the Ripper was in fact a woman.

In February 2019, it was 示唆するd that?Jack the Ripper may have been a 悪意のある Dutch sailor who 殺人d two ex-wives in his 母国 and bludgeoned to death two other women in Belgium.

罪，犯罪 historian Dr Jan Bondeson has 指名するd Hendrik de Jong as a prime 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う for the most 悪名高い 始める，決める of 未解決の 殺人s in history.

At the ti me of the Whitechapel 殺人s, de Jong is believed to have worked as a steward on a ship that made たびたび（訪れる） trips from Rotterdam to London, 供給するing him with the perfect means of getting out of the country after his heinous 罪，犯罪s.

He later 殺人d two of his ex-wives in his native Netherlands in 1893 and bludgeoned to death two women above a pub before 試みる／企てるing to 始める，決める their 団体／死体s on 解雇する／砲火／射撃 in Belgium in 1898.

Police discovering the 団体／死体 of one of Jack the Ripper's 犠牲者s, probably Catherine Eddowes