u/Specker145

So there are these two crocs, one lives in Makassar, South Sulawesi

https://www.newsflare.com/video/341172/residents-in-makassar-indonesia-maintain-giant-crocodiles-in-their-homes

and the other (pictured)in Asam Kumbang Crocodile farm. Please reach out to animal sanctuaries like vantara about these guy. I already tried a few, no responses.

Unrelated photo of Sobek the nile crocodile and his mate.

Could Jack have been Paul Mueller?

Let me preface this by saying I don't believe in this, there is no evidence this man had ever even been in England in his life. But this case is nearly 200 years old so; what's the harm?

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In 1898, Paul Mueller, suspected of commiting the infamous Villisca axe murders in Iowa, murdered his employer, Francis D. Newton, his wife Sarah, and their adopted daughter Elsie. Mueller matches the many descriptipns of Jack; having previously been a sailor, with even nautical ink on his arms that he would always cover, matching Joseph Lawende's description of Jack looking like a sailor.

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COPIED FROM THE AMERICAN HAUNTINGS BLOG:

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https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/manonthetrain

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As it happened, Francis had looked at the horse but decided not to buy it. He returned home with $100 cash in his wallet, which is about $3,000 today. This was later said to be unusual to friends, saying that he never kept more than $40 on his person. He was frugal, good with money, and usually careful with any sort of cash.

Neighbors knocked on the door and circled the house, not seeing any signs of lights or activity inside. Finally, they broke open the front door and went inside to see the house had been ransacked.

And the three Newtons had been killed in their beds.

The farmhand, Paul Mueller, was gone. It’s speculated that his disagreement with Francis caused his bed temper to erupt. The two men shared a suite – with separate sleeping rooms – in one part of the house, and on the night of January 7, someone took an ax and beat Francis’ head with the blunt side of it until he was unrecognizable. The killer – assumed by everyone to be Mueller – pulled the bloodstained sheets up over his employer’s face and left the room. No one knows what happened next, but the police speculated that Mueller then went downstairs and killed Sarah and Elsie next. It was assumed that Elsie was killed last because of the defensive wounds on her hand – that she’d been awakened by the noise before she was murdered. The bodies of the two women showed signs of torture, there were long gashes on their abdomens, and their genitals were mutilated by the sharp side of the ax. Instead of covering the bodies – as he had done with Francis Newton – Mueller pulled the bedclothes and nightgowns up over the heads of the two women with their nakedness on full display"

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So, Paul Mueller was known to he an angry, violent man, who didn't speak english well, and mutilated the genitals of his respective victims. He matches a lot of the descriptions of Jack, especially with the height, as Albert Cadosch would not have seen 5 foot 5 Mueller's head as he killed Annie Chapman over the 5'6 fence. Mueller would have been around 25 at the time of the Ripper murders, and he matches the "Short and stocky" descriptions well. All speculation, again, there is NO evidence this man was ever even in England, let alone in Whitechapel, but I think it's just worth a thought.

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