>From one of my other mailing lists... Hello everyone I was just relaxing and watching the Discovery Channel program which dealt with a Cold Case Investigation of Jack The Ripper. The Detective conducting the investigation was following the suspect, a lunatic escapee from a Lunatic Asylum in London. He discovered that after this guy escaped the Asylum, the killings started. Then, they suddenly stopped. He then discovered from the Asylum records that the guy came to the U.S.. He followed his travels though-out the U.S. and similar killings were discovered in almost every city he visited. The newspaper reports always asked the questions everyone wanted to know. Is this killing by Jack the Ripper? They were all similar. Anyway, the way he found out about his coming to the U.S and what ship he sailed on as well as the date, is that he went to the British Maritime Museum, which has records of all ships sailing to the U.S. in the19th century. Thought this was very interesting and it could be helpful if the Museum is willing to do searches for people. Anyway, just for everyone's information. By the way, the Detective(formerly a New York City Cold Case Detective) took the suspects picture to a former NYPD artist and asked him to make the picture "younger" since he had a good description of the suspect in his '30's '. After the artist was finished with the suspects picture which was of him in his 60's or 70's, they then created a picture of the suspects description per witnesses(I don't know what witnesses they had as I thought there were none). When he was finished, they showed the two photos on the computer next to each other . They were identical. So, possible that he found Jack the Ripper. I really found it interesting. So, keep the Maritime Museum in mind as a future possible source of information. Have a good day everyone