Inside Buck's Row – By Steven E. Blomer, which can be purchased on his Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id100042074305598
Cutting Point – By Christer Holmgren, available on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cutting-Point-Solving-Ripper-Murders/dp/9187611368/refsr_1_3?cridWD2TJV0W59GB&keywordscuttingpoint&qid1668263223&sprefixcuttingpoint%2Caps%2C79&sr8-3
If someone is named as a prime suspect in the eternal quest to find the identity of Jack the Ripper, then the most important factor in evaluating them as a viable candidate is placing them on the scene at the time the murders took place. . The case against any suspect collapses if this cannot be done.
In recent years, one person who was most certainly at the scene of a Jack the Ripper crime around the time it took place is Charles Allen Lechmere.
But look for it in any contemporary accounts of the Whitechapel murders and you will find that it is conspicuous by its absence. There is no mention of Charles Lechmere in newspaper articles or official documents on the case.
But he is there, although he is better known to students of the Ripper murders as Charles Cross, the Pickford driver who found the body of the first of the five canonical victims – Mary Nichols.
Cross was, in fact, the last name of his stepfather, a police officer named Thomas Cross, and, for some reason, Lechmere gave his name as Charles Cross when he testified at the investigation into the death of Mary Nichols.
However, this raised a red flag with some researchers, who used this apparent deception to suggest that Charles Allen Lechmere was not the one who discovered Mary Nichols' body, but that he was, in did, but that he was, in fact, her murderer. They then place him as part of a wider series of murders in Whitechapel and as the perpetrator of another series of crimes which took place around the same time – the Thames Torso murders.
In this video, Steve Blomer – author of /"Inside Buck's Row/" – and Richard Jones evaluate the evidence against Charles Allen Lechmere and assess the viability of the case against him based on the few facts we know about him.
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