Jack the Ripper

How do you feel that this case impacted the field of death investigation?

Ignoring things like DNA and other forensic tools that came about or came into their current focus nearly a century after the Jack the Ripper deaths, there is no doubt an impact to the field of death investigation. One major impact is that there is now a very engrained skepticism about anonymous letters of people claiming to be the killer and/or killings that have the basic look and feel of a supposed serial killer but are missing some of the details that are not publicly known and are thus actually not linkable to the prior killings that are known to be of the actual serial killer.

To that end, there is a much more entrenched and developed concept and field of profiling, looking for a consistent motive and "signature" from one killing to the...
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