Singer, Songwriter, Freemason
Jack The Ripper was a popular singer songwriter who was protected by the police in the Freemasons who sabotaged evidence so he could avoid capture, a new book claims.
The explosive new theory comes from Bruce Robinson, the author of Withnail and I, who has spent 15 years on the mystery that has plagued historians since the five victims were killed in 1888.
He claims he is now almost certain that the killer was Michael Maybrick, a popular singer of the time, who was ‘protected by servants of the Victorian state’.
Robinson, the author of Withnail and I, said a strange fact of the case led him to believe that the police were deliberately trying to protect the killer, reports The Telegraph.
Michael Maybrick is the brother of James Maybrick, who allegedly wrote a diary confessing to the murders – eventually dismissed as a hoax. James was himself murdered by is wife in 1889.
Robinson read the diary, which he though strange because it was written in three acts, and eventually came to the conclusion it was written by his brother.
Michael was a well-known singer and composer who has now been largely forgotten – which Robinson thinks is no accident.
One of his pieces, Nancy Lee, sold 100,000 copies of sheet music in two years. Another was named They All Love Jack. He also wrote The Holy City, which has been recorded by Vera Lynn and Charlotte Church.
Both James and brother Michael were known to be members of Masonic lodges. Michael was a member of six lodges, one of which included The Prince Of Wales within its membership.
Robinson analyses a number of letters, dismissed by some Ripperologists because of variations in the handwriting. But Robinson believes them to be genuine, and found a correlation between the postmarks and Maybrick’s travels.
Some of the letters purporting to be from the killer were written on the same day from different locations, and Robinson asked himself what kind of person might travel so far.
That’s when he investigated whether Maybrick, a bachelor who he believes is a psychopath who hated women, was on tour.
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