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The Secret Ripper Diary Extracts
All the talk of using colours to determine authorship of the diary made me think of Mike Barrett's supposed attempt to replicate the...
Lord Orsam
Dec 2, 20233 min read
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Colour Blindness
The well known Dunning-Kruger effect is (per Wiki): ‘a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain...
Lord Orsam
Dec 1, 202313 min read
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales
With his pal Tony Devereux being long since dead when he brought Jack the Ripper's diary with him down to London in April 1992, Michael...
Lord Orsam
Nov 30, 20236 min read
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Lord Orsam's Diary PART 2
Thursday 16 November 1993 No better reason as to why all the documents in this case need to be released for public scrutiny can be found...
Lord Orsam
Nov 24, 202353 min read
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Lord Orsam's Diary
Monday 6 November 2023 I awake to find Simon Wood is spamming the boards with his nonsensical claim that the victim photographed in 13...
Lord Orsam
Nov 16, 202341 min read
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Along the Green River
Lord Orsam recently watched a four part crime documentary on the Channel 4 Player called 'Green River Killer: Hunting the Monster' and he...
Lord Orsam
Nov 7, 20236 min read
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A49301
The cry I hear from the streets is "Lord Orsam can we hear more of your music?" Well readers of the old website might recall my song...
Lord Orsam
Nov 2, 20231 min read
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That little red diary
It seems that we need to talk about that little red diary once again. The chief diary defender persists in spreading misinformation and...
Lord Orsam
Oct 23, 202318 min read
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Mike's Motive
The chief diary defender said recently that she has yet to see a convincing motive put forward for Mike Barrett to have confessed in June...
Lord Orsam
Oct 15, 202310 min read
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That Man in a Pub
My article 'A Man in a Pub' from January 2020 has now been uploaded to the 'Historic Articles' section. I've split it into two parts...
Lord Orsam
Oct 10, 202317 min read
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Hanbury Street: 1911
While researching my book, The Temperature of Death, I came across some interesting photographs of 62 Hanbury Street in a file at the...
Lord Orsam
Oct 6, 20231 min read
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The Lodger and the Landlady
In the Referee of 24 August 1913, George Sims told a story about a letter he had received some years earlier, which he referred to as "an...
Lord Orsam
Sep 30, 20235 min read
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A Beautiful Mind: Jonathan Hainsworth and the Power of Imagination
Although I've written about the work of some interesting characters, of whom Simon Wood, Michael Hawley, Wolf Vanderlinden, Christer...
Lord Orsam
Sep 30, 202325 min read
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The Game of the Name
We must never forget that, according to Christer Holmgren, aka Fisherman: 'I have repeatedly stated that my definition of a false name is...
Lord Orsam
Sep 21, 20238 min read
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The Missing Newspapers
The issue of the empty tin matchbox has raised its head again, and, in the process, leads to an important question which goes far wider...
Lord Orsam
Sep 18, 20234 min read
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The Long Game
INTRODUCTION As I mentioned in the Electricians' Special, if you summon Lord Orsam, he will come. Readers of the 'Lord Orsam's Blog'...
Lord Orsam
Sep 15, 20235 min read
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Electricians' Special
If you mention Lord Orsam on JTR Forums, he will appear. 'Orsam might like to comment on this one in his blog,' What needs comment? A...
Lord Orsam
Sep 13, 202313 min read
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Name Issue: Bonus Case Study!
This is a good one; the best, one could say, being saved until last. George Spence Clarke aka George Gregory George Spence Clarke was...
Lord Orsam
Sep 12, 20234 min read
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Ask Orsam...about Lechmere/Cross
Q. Lord Orsam, I see that there has been a response on JTR Forums to your 'Name Issue Part 3' Blog post from earlier today. A. Yes, I've...
Lord Orsam
Sep 7, 202323 min read
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Lechmere/Cross "Name Issue" Part 3
Part 1 of the now famous Lechmere/Cross "Name Issue" series was authored by Kattrup in January 2017 here. His approach was to use the...
Lord Orsam
Sep 7, 202334 min read
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